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This Week In Techdirt History: October 5th – 11th
Leigh Beadon, Techdirt
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Reps. Gabbard and Gosar brought out the ridiculous House companion to one of the Senate’s anti-Section 230 bills, while Donald Trump got on board the “repeal 230” bandwagon even though it was copyright that kept getting his c…
Oct 11, 2025, 7:00 PM
I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc…
Cathy Gellis, Techdirt
My cancer is back. This is disappointing but not unexpected; of the 2/3 of people who survive their first bout with ovarian cancer, 80% usually have it recur at some point. For me it was sooner than expected, and disheartening because, even if I beat it back …
Oct 11, 2025, 2:39 AM
District Court: TRO For Troops In Chicago Area, TRO From Using Riot Tactics Against Protests, And More!
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
Hello from the free state of Illinois! We just talked about Donald Trump’s incurrsion into Chicago and the surrounding area, in which he first sent in a bunch of masked ICE agents to terrorize citizens and immigrants alike, at one point raiding an apartment b…
Oct 10, 2025, 10:40 PM
Supreme Court’s ‘Go Ahead And Round Up All The Brown People’ Decision Is Being Challenged In Court
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
In July, a California federal court handed down what should have been considered an obvious decision: of course it violates constitutional rights to consider skin color, spoken language, “accent,” or place of employment sufficient to support a stop, much less…
Oct 10, 2025, 7:58 PM
Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to internal correspondence obtained by Migrant Insider, Apple has removed the DeICER a…
Oct 10, 2025, 5:58 PM
DHS Sends A Journalist Back To His Home Country To Be Tortured Because ‘Live Streaming’ ICE Activities Is ‘Threatening’
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
America isn’t the land of the free. We abandoned that title when we returned Donald Trump to office — the same person who refused to engage in the peaceful transfer of power in 2020 and, immediately upon his return to power, pardoned almost everyone who engag…
Oct 10, 2025, 4:31 PM
Trump FCC Is Making It Easier For Your Broadband ISP To Rip You Off With Bogus Fees
Karl Bode, Techdirt
When FCC boss Brendan Carr isn’t failing embarrassingly to censor comedians who make the President sad, he’s taking a hatchet to corporate oversight and consumer protection. From weakening robocall enforcement to killing net neutrality, it’s part of Carr’s “D…
Oct 10, 2025, 12:24 PM
Trump Calls For The Arrest Of J.B. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
Here is a brief timeline of events that got us here. Chicago has had a decline in violent crime and murders over the course of the last several years, with 2025 on pace to mark it as the safest year yet in the city. Despite that plain fact, Donald Trump has b…
Oct 10, 2025, 2:55 AM
America Is Now The World’s Sundown Town
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
This is who we are now. We are the country that makes people who aren’t white leave the country because they’re not white. And this is according to this administration’s own press release, which celebrates the fact that we’re now the inverse of the words engr…
Oct 9, 2025, 8:27 PM
Hey, San Francisco, There Should Be Consequences When Police Spy Illegally
Matthew Guariglia, Techdirt
A San Francisco supervisor has proposed that police and other city agencies should have no financial consequences for breaking a landmark surveillance oversight law. In 2019, organizations from across the city worked together to help pass that law, which requ…
Oct 9, 2025, 6:56 PM
Trump Admits: “We Took The Freedom Of Speech Away”
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
In what may be the most accidentally honest moment of his presidency, Donald Trump just admitted what we’ve been documenting for months: “We took the freedom of speech away.” Yes, that’s literally what he said: For those who’ve been following Trump’s systemat…
Oct 9, 2025, 5:39 PM
Appeals Court Subtly Lets The Trump Administration Know It’s Just Being Racist By Demanding An End To Birthright Citizenship
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
It’s not enough to go after the “worst of the worst.” It was never a sustainable effort, what with migrants committing fewer crimes than natural citizens. The attempt to rid the country of as many non-white people as possible under Trump always had to go bigg…
Oct 9, 2025, 4:26 PM
Republicans Are Trying To Make Government Efforts To Help Poor People Afford Broadband Illegal
Karl Bode, Techdirt
“Right wing activism organizations posing as consumer rights groups are trying to make it illegal for the federal government to try and help poor, rural Americans afford broadband,” is a sentence I just had to write. Quick background: the $8 billion FCC Unive…
Oct 9, 2025, 12:26 PM
Superior, Wisconsin Latest City To Build Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network
Karl Bode, Techdirt
We’ve long explored how powerful regional broadband monopolies have dominated America, resulting in spotty access, high prices, slow speeds, and terrible customer service. We’ve also long discussed how the U.S. government has done little to actually fix the p…
Oct 8, 2025, 9:54 PM
Trump’s Immigration Theater: Pulling Cops Off Child Sex Crimes To Chase Landscapers
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
So let me get this straight. The same administration that claims fentanyl is such a dire threat that it justifies sweeping tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China is simultaneously pulling federal agents off drug interdiction duties to chase undocumented la…
Oct 8, 2025, 5:57 PM
Judge Says Govt’s Prosecution Of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Looks Vindictive, Orders Hearing
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
A brief-ish history of events leading up to this point: Kilmar Abrego Garcia was one of hundreds of migrants rounded up by ICE, denied of their due process rights, and dumped into an infamous torture prison in El Salvador, a country overseen by a man who clai…
Oct 8, 2025, 4:29 PM
America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Just so you know: it’s not normal for your country’s voice communications networks to be completely hijacked by scammers and marketers, rendering it almost unusable. That’s literally not something people in most serious countries have to deal with. Yet we’ve …
Oct 8, 2025, 12:28 PM
It Definitely Looks Like I Was Wrong About The Iowa School Superintendent Arrested By ICE
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
A lot has happened since last week when my post about Des Moines (IA) school superintendent Ian Roberts being arrested by ICE first hit the front page here at Techdirt. A lot of new information has come to light, almost all of it obtained by Des Moines Regist…
Oct 7, 2025, 10:16 PM
DOJ Moves Goalposts To Send Troops To Portland, Gets Shut Down By A Federal Court
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
It seems like years ago, but the Trump administration got itself sued earlier this very year by the state of California for commandeering California’s National Guard to shut down anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. Trump justified this by declaring the city to …
Oct 7, 2025, 4:23 PM
Paramount Formally Hires Bari Weiss To Turn What’s Left Of CBS News Into A Soggy Right Wing Propaganda And Troll Farm
Karl Bode, Techdirt
It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as if their claims of being silenced have always been a bullshit ploy to dominate t…
Oct 7, 2025, 12:22 PM
OK GOP State Senator, Essentially: Ryan Walters’ Mandates Were Performative Bullshit
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
As we discussed last week, Ryan Walters resigned from his position as the state Superintendent of Oklahoma and the mood across the state was sad and sour as a result. Okay, while it’s very funny that Oklahoma businesses hosted celebration parties for Walters’…
Oct 7, 2025, 3:03 AM
The Tyrant In The White House
Mike Brock, Techdirt
Stephen Miller just called a federal judge’s enforcement of constitutional law “legal insurrection.” Let that sink in. A Deputy White House Chief of Staff—one of the most powerful people in the executive branch—declared that judicial review of presidential po…
Oct 6, 2025, 7:58 PM
Senator Cruz Figure Out Who Was President From 2018 To 2020 Challenge; Impossible
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
I have a simple question for Senator Ted Cruz: Who was president in 2018? How about 2020? I ask because Cruz just released a “bombshell” report claiming that the Biden administration “converted” CISA into “the Thought Police.” There’s just one tiny problem wi…
Oct 6, 2025, 5:59 PM
Another Trump Official Carelessly Talks War Plans While Hanging Around With Civilians
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
This administration is so comfortable with its power and so self-assured in its actions that it can’t even be bothered to engage in basic operational security. This dates all the way back to Trump’s first term, when the president casually (and unofficially) d…
Oct 6, 2025, 4:23 PM
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