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For years we’ve noted how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’s resulted in a growing number of pissed off towns, cities, cooperatives, and city-owned utilities building their own, locally-owned broadband networks in a bid for better, cheaper, faster broadband.
Regional giants...
Here we go again. We’ve been discussing the iterative changes in Japanese copyright law for some time now. Those changes have been largely targeted rather than sweeping, though those targeted changes are arguably extreme in nature. First and foremost was moving copyright infringement largely out of the realm of civil law and into a criminal offense. While that is bad enough on its own, the...
You stroll into your favorite food-jobber, looking to pick up a few things on your way home from work. Lots of people are on their way home from work. There are lines at every register and someone is in the self-checkout with $600-worth of groceries, beginning what will eventually become a 30-minute stop-start process that could have been handled in a five minutes by even the most incompetent...
It remains incredible to me that we sometimes have to rely on the nutty Fifth Circuit to correct the even nuttier “MAGA favorite” judges who issue the stupidest decisions in court cases. But now they’ve done it again, as the Fifth Circuit has pointed out that, no, RFK Jr. does not appear to have standing to sue Joe Biden because Facebook moderated some of his anti-vax nonsense.
This will take...
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This is tentatively welcome news. I mean, it can’t result in anything worse than the original decision the Fourth Circuit handed down in the Chatrie case, which said there’s nothing constitutionally wrong with searching every Google user’s location info in hopes of finding the suspect law enforcement is actually looking for. (via FourthAmendment.com)
The Appeals Court took the Supreme Court’s...
Recent Supreme Court rulings have thrown most U.S. regulatory enforcement into operational and legal chaos. The dismantling of Chevron, with the Loper Bright ruling in particular, now dictates that regulators can’t implement new rules or reforms without the explicit approval of Congress.
Two problems: one, regulators ideally have very specific subject expertise Congress doesn’t have (think about...
Those of you who are video game fanatics like me know the feeling. There’s a brand new gaming console on the way and every couple of days you do some googling for updates, release dates, or any kind of news on it. The manufacturers of these consoles often do a drip campaign when it comes to releasing information about the new console, while millions of fans hang on the edge of their seats,...
Here’s a final election day story. This time, it’s about an “election integrity” app being used by MAGA folks to spread absolute nonsense about the election, but also to confess their own illegal voter suppression schemes. And thanks to their crap security, it’s now being reported.
At a time when the facts-optional GOP likes to flip everything on its head (calling legitimate reporting they...
Bad people make good case law. That’s just how our criminal justice system works. And so it is here in this decision, which flows from criminal charges that, in turn, flow from proactive efforts meant to thwart the sharing of child sexual abuse material.
In this case, Ryan Maher was convicted of CSAM possession. Having been informed of the chain of events leading to his arrest, Maher challenged...