NY AG Opens Inquiry After Charter Spectrum Bungles Its Coronavirus Response
By and large, most major ISPs have handled the labor angle of COVID-19 relatively well, with giants like Comcast and AT&T offered hazard pay, and Verizon slowing new broadband, phone, and TV...
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Tim Bray, Early Internet Guru, And Amazon VP Quits Over The 'Chickenshit'...
If you do anything internet related, hopefully you already know Tim Bray. Among tons of other things, he helped develop XML and a variety of other standards/technologies the internet relies on. He’s...
View ArticleFacebook Employee Revolt Shows, Yet Again, That There Are Other Incentives...
One of the most frustrating claims that critics of Section 230 make is that because of Section 230 the big internet companies have no incentive to deal with awful content (abuse, harassment, bigotry,...
View ArticleCourt Refuses To Block Trump Exec Order On TikTok As Requested By TikTok...
There have been a variety of lawsuits filed regarding Trump’s silly Executive Order regarding TikTok, but one interesting one involves an employee of TikTok, Patrick Ryan, who filed suit on his own...
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Content Moderation Case Study: Vimeo Sued For Encouraging Infringement Via...
Summary: Vimeo is a video hosting site that was originally founded in 2004 as an offshoot of CollegeHumor. IAC acquired the company early on and it tried to position itself as an alternative to...
View ArticleGovernments Around The World Want To Require Local Employees Of Internet...
One of the earliest themes on Techdirt, going back decades, is the difficulty of jurisdiction on the internet that easily crosses nearly all geographical borders. We wrote a post back in 2002 raising...
View ArticleCable Giant Spectrum Endangered Its Employees And Screwed Its Technicians...
Most broadband providers saw a major uptick in both subscribers and revenue during the COVID crisis, as working and schooling at home exploded. But at the regional monopolies that dominate the U.S....
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Something Stupid This Way Comes: Twitter Threatens To Sue Meta Over Threads,...
Just fucking fight it out already. The whole stupid “cage match” brawl thing was started when Meta execs made some (accurate) cracks about Elon’s management of Twitter, and Elon couldn’t handle it....
View ArticleIllinois Governor J.B. Pritzker Weakens State Privacy Law On Biometric Data,...
While it tends to get buried by the press, one thing is very true: the U.S. is too corrupt to pass a federal privacy law. For as long as the internet has existed, policymakers have prioritized making...
View ArticleThe Uberization Of Nursing Sees The Usual Problems For Gig Workers, But Here...
Uber has only been around for 15 years, but its underlying business model of on-demand labor, organized online, has been applied widely around the world in many industries. That’s despite concerns that...
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