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There are things you can and can’t do when setting up checkpoints. If it’s DUI enforcement, you can talk to drivers and see if they seem intoxicated. If it’s near a border, you can stop every vehicle to search for undocumented immigrants or contraband.
What you can’t do, however, is just set up a checkpoint to stop all cars just to eyeball the interiors and question occupants in hopes of...
While democracy burns, corporate America is busy checking the wind direction. Google renames the Gulf of Mexico to flatter a wannabe autocrat’s ego. Business leaders draft contingency plans for the end of constitutional government. And the Democratic Party, funded by these same genuflecting corporations, responds with all the urgency of someone scheduling a dental cleaning.
This isn’t just a...
Way back in the far more innocent times of 2012, we covered a brief but tense dispute between Google and Iran over the lack of a label for the Persian Gulf on Google Maps. Ostensibly so as not to upset anyone about the name of that body of water, given that there was some dispute over its name, Google just left it blank. Iran, not exactly known for its patience when it comes to perceived insults...
Last July, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals appeared to have shut the door on constitutional discussions of geofence warrants. These so-called warrants operate from a point of ignorance. Investigators have no idea who they’re looking for. So, they ask Google to do some of the work for them.
Casting a small dragnet around a certain location at certain times sounds like a good start....
Given that there does not seem to have been a single thing Trump has done since entering office that has been legal, nor has his lackey Musk (or is it Trump that’s the lackey…?), there is not a single thing that doesn’t require litigation to challenge and enjoin. But we’re starting to see the floodgates open as more and more aggrieved plaintiffs are able to get their lawsuits into court.
They are...
Go from absolute zero to GIMP pro with this comprehensive 9 course bundle. Jump into the Complete Master GIMP Design Bundle, and you’ll go all the way from installing the GIMP software and configuring it to run on Windows, to producing banners, book covers and even memes that you’ll display using Facebook and other social media, WordPress and HTML. What’s more, you’ll even explore touching up...
Here’s a story about being wrong. Not just regular wrong — we’re all wrong sometimes! — but spectacularly, publicly, “I’m going to double down again and again and again on this obviously false thing even after being corrected” wrong.
This week, Elon Musk stood in the Oval Office at the White House and was finally challenged about one of the Musk/Trump administration’s more creative (i.e., made up...
Since his appointment by Trump in 2017, the FCC’s Brendan Carr has never stood up to telecom giants on any issue of substance to consumers. It doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about the company’s destruction of net neutrality, privacy violations, bullshit hidden fees, or its technically unnecessary usage caps, there’s nothing a company like Comcast could do to get Brendan Carr to give a damn...
It’s always interesting to me to see companies identify what they see as a threat by looking at what type of content they attempt to DMCA or otherwise disappear. When actual direct and flagrant wholesale copying of a digital product occurs, you can understand why the takedowns are issued. We might still want to argue that there are business model methods for making that less of an issue, but the...
Terumo Cardiovascular, a company that makes six-figure medical equipment used in heart surgeries, is apparently keen on attracting the ire of the “right to repair” movement. But given the Trump administration’s assault on state and federal consumer protection, it’s not clear they’ll face many meaningful repercussions for it.
In a letter obtained by 404 Media, the company has apparently been...