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- This Week In Techdirt History: May 12th – 18th
- NetEase Backs Down On Requirement For Early Streamers Of ‘Marvel’ Game To Not Critique The Game
- Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Do You Really Want The Government In Your DMs?
- Court To Cops: If We Can’t See The Drug Dog Do The Thing, We’re Gonna Be Suppressing Some Evidence
- When Humanity Gets Messy, Sometimes the Best Tech Solution Is To Do Nothing
- AI Gun Detection Company Pitching Its Tech To Schools Sure Seems To Be The Sole Beneficiary Of A Lot Of Similarly-Crafted Legislation
- Daily Deal: Babbel Language Learning (All Languages)
- Yet Another Study Finds That Internet Usage Is Correlated With GREATER Wellbeing, Not Less
- Wireless Industry Fined Yet Again For Selling Very Limited ‘Unlimited’ Data Plans
- Warner Bros. Takes Down LOTR Fan Film From 2009, Apologizes, Puts It Back Up
- 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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