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And the winner of this week’s most insightful comment is… George Orwell! Or, well, not exactly — it’s actually That One Guy passing along a quote by the former, in response to the conversation about journalists exposing government secrets: “J… Continue reading
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ChurchHatesTucker’s Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
The elephant in this week’s news has been Edward Snowden. While he’s been quiet since ditching Hong Kong early in the week, the effects of his leaking of evidence of the NSA’s spying on American citizens continue to reverberate. Rep. Mike Rogers, he… Continue reading
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Awesome Stuff: Ambitious Projects
For our latest awesome stuff post, I thought perhaps we’d look at a few more “ambitious” projects. Many crowdfunding projects are really effectively “presales” of something that people might want: a gadget, an album, a book, a movie, an accessory, etc…. Continue reading
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Valerie Plame & Joe Wilson: This Has Nothing To Do With Snowden, The Intelligence-Industrial Complex Is Out Of Control
Husband and wife Valerie Plame Wilson and Joe Wilson are well-known for an earlier “leaking” of “intelligence” information that resulted in Plame being outed as a covert CIA officer. The two have now written a powerful op-ed for the Guardian pointing o… Continue reading
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Spanish Anti-piracy Firm Ares Rights History Of Censorship By Copyright For Ecuador & Argentina
We already wrote about Ecuador apparently using highly questionable copyright takedowns to help censor documents that revealed Ecuador’s government’s attempts to purchase surveillance tools. In response, Ecuador first claimed that the documents were fa… Continue reading
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Dentist Threatens Patient Who Left Yelp Criticism With Criminal Charges
We’ve seen lots of folks freak out when a bad Yelp review gets left about their service, but some people take it to extremes. Over at Popehat there’s an example of a dentist, William Coppola, in San Antonio, Texas, who had a lawyer, Isabel de la Riva, … Continue reading
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DailyDirt: Homemade Meals And Ingredients
Everyone likes a good home-cooked meal. And making everything “from scratch” seems to be a popular thing to do, especially if you have entirely too much free time. If you’re up to the challenge, here are just a few pointers to recipes that you might wa… Continue reading
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Attorneys Openly Revolt Against General Counsel Over Failure To Punish PG&E For Pipeline Explosion
Cross-posted from A deadly explosion killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes in San Bruno, California on September 9, 2010. The cause of the destruction was a natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric that ran underneath the homes… Continue reading
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Ecuador Pulls Ed Snowden’s Travel Papers Because Julian Assange Thinks He’s In Charge
Things keep getting more and more ridiculous concerning the Ed Snowden asylum drama. It’s never been fully explained how or why Snowden decided to link up with Wikileaks to get “help” in finding a place to get asylum, but ever since then, Wikileaks has… Continue reading
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Even State Courts Getting Skeptical About Prenda
We’ve talked a few times about Prenda’s big bag of tricks in trying to get contact information associated with IP addresses by any means necessary. Lately, that’s meant filing questionable “hacking” (not copyright) cases in state court — especially in… Continue reading
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