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- This Week In Techdirt History: May 5th – 11th
- Microsoft Shutters Several Bethesda Developers Post Acquisition, Same As It Did In Activision Acquisition
- Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Between A Rock And A Hard Policy
- We Looked At All The Recent Evidence On Mobile Phone Bans In Schools – This Is What We Found
- 4th Circuit To Cops: Arresting Someone For Following Your Instructions Means You Don’t Get Any Immunity
- Daily Deal: The Ultimate Python & Artificial Intelligence Bundle
- Congressional Committee Threatens To Investigate Any Company Helping TikTok Defend Its Rights
- CEO: ‘AI’ Power Drain Could Cause Data Centers To Run Out Of Power Within Two Years
- Colorado Legislators Kill Off Police Accountability Bill That Would Have Deterred Cop-On-Cop Violence
- ‘Manor Lords’ Developer Reacts To VR Mod: ‘I’m Impressed’
- Why Political Organizations Always Drift Off Left: O’Sullivan’s Law, Experienced
- Health Circumstances Demand a Longer, Deeper Timeout
- Bitcoin, the Bitcoin Cash roadmap, and the Law of Two Feet
- Pirate Party enters parliament in Luxembourg, gets 17% in Prague
- Analog Equivalent Rights (21/21): Conclusion, privacy has been all but eliminated from the digital environment
- Analog Equivalent Rights (20/21): Your analog boss couldn’t read your mail, ever
- Analog Equivalent Rights (19/21): Telescreens in our Living Rooms
- Analog Equivalent Rights (18/21): Our analog parents had private conversations, both in public and at home
- Analog Equivalent Rights (17/21): The Previous Inviolability of Diaries
- Analog Equivalent Rights (16/21): Retroactive surveillance of all our children
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