I’m sorry, but those of you looking forward to riding the Friend Feed Flume at Zuckland or the Search Engine Shuffle at GooglePark are probably out of luck. Florida’s new social media l…| Techdirt
When Elon Musk took over Twitter, one of his primary stated goals was to “bring back free speech” to the platform. He was particularly critical of how Twitter had briefly blocked links …| Techdirt
As so-called “conservatives” (a decently large number of them appearing to actually be white supremacists and bigots engaged in harassment) complained Big Tech was slanted against them,…| Techdirt
Over the last few weeks Parler has become the talk of Trumpist land, with promises of a social media site that “supports free speech.” The front page of the site insists that its conten…| Techdirt
Posts about content moderation at scale written by Techdirt| Techdirt
We’ve been warning for years that the UK’s Online Safety Act would be a disaster for the open internet. Its supporters accused us of exaggerating, or “shilling” for Big Tech…| Techdirt
Posts about masnick's impossibility theorem written by Mike Masnick, Glyn Moody, and Techdirt| Techdirt
Posts about malicious actors written by Mike Masnick and Techdirt| Techdirt
Here on Techdirt, we write a lot about content moderation and even did a whole big series of content moderation case studies. However, here’s an interesting one that involves Techdirt itself …| Techdirt
Posts about regulations written by Mike Masnick, Karl Bode, and Glyn Moody| Techdirt
As some people know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and information economics influenced a lot of my thinking on the eco…| Techdirt
Posts about techdirt written by Mike Masnick and Leigh Beadon| Techdirt
A few months ago, we wondered if Wired had fired its entire fact-checking staff because it published what appeared to be a facts-optional article co-authored by professional consistently wrong Jaro…| Techdirt
Posts about transparency mandates written by Mike Masnick| Techdirt
Posts about compelled speech written by Mike Masnick, Tim Cushing, Cathy Gellis, and Techdirt| Techdirt
Posts about ab 587 written by Mike Masnick, conciergecli@a8c.com, and Techdirt| Techdirt
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The recent Supreme Court case, Moody v. NetChoice & CCIA, confronted a pivotal question: Do websites have the First Amendment right to curate content they present to their global audiences? Whi…| Techdirt
Hey, Techdirt haters: hold onto your hats, because I’m going to praise Elon Musk for doing the right thing, even though many of you insist that my complaints about him are motivated by personal dis…| Techdirt
This post analyzes California AB 587, self-described as “Content Moderation Requirements for Internet Terms of Service.” I believe the bill will get a legislative hearing later this month. A note a…| Techdirt
We’ve explored multiple times now why Elon Musk is no friend to free speech. He has regularly threatened and sued others for their free speech, and indeed, he has an ever-growing list of such lawsu…| Techdirt
Posts about elon musk written by corbin.barthold, Mike Masnick, Glyn Moody, and Karl Bode| Techdirt
Posts about covid written by Mike Masnick, Karl Bode, Tim Cushing, and Techdirt| Techdirt
Posts about 1st amendment written by Mike Masnick, Tim Cushing, and Cathy Gellis| Techdirt
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Actual free speech survives for yet another day as the Supreme Court has rejected a bunch of fantasy-land nonsense in a case in which Trumpists were absolutely positive they’d caught the government…| Techdirt
With the standard caveat that reading too much into oral arguments is dangerous, I will note that I am cautiously optimistic after listening to the oral arguments in the Murthy v. Missouri case at …| Techdirt
Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden’s laptop. If you’re new h…| Techdirt
Two bits of news came out of the letter Mark Zuckerberg sent to Rep. Jim Jordan this week (and how people responded to it), neither of which are what you’re likely to have heard about. First, Donal…| Techdirt
There is some confusion about whether the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) regulates content or design on digital platforms like Instagram or TikTok. It’s easy to see why that is, because the bill’s a…| Techdirt
Both troubled teens and government agencies are asking, “How thin is thin enough?” The teens are thinking about how thin they want to look, while the government is thinking about what’s…| Techdirt
Summary: In 2012, the Huffington Post did an expos? on eating disorder blogs, mainly on the site Tumblr. It discussed the world of ?thinspo? and ?thinspiration? blogs, that focused on building a co…| Techdirt
I get it. I totally get it. Every tech dude comes along and has this thought: “hey, we’ll be the free speech social media site. We won’t do any moderation beyond what’s required.” Even Twitter init…| Techdirt
It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actua…| Techdirt
Back in April Substack founder/CEO Chris Best gave an interview to Nilay Patel in which he refused to answer some fairly basic questions about how the company planned to handle trust & safety i…| Techdirt