"I'm Mike Masnick!" - MIKE MASNICK, The Dawn of the Internet, Otherwise Objectionable #OtherwiseObjectionable #MikeMasnick

Perfect pause accidentally. This segment was like someone else put a different talkshow inside my current talk show. I've never seen two guests take over on their own as much as these two guys.

I had to wonder if it was getting to Sam that he couldn't get a […]

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"30 years ago, people were just starting to get the internet in their homes!" - MIKE MASNICK, The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet, Otherwise Objectionable #OtherwiseObjectionable #MikeMasnick

the stupidity is thorough, even extending to the belief they're so right the Streisand Effect doesn't apply to them #MikeMasnick

Who Goes MAGA? With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such …

Read the unfortunately-necessary update #WhoGoesMAGA, by #MikeMasnick:

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#ider Good Fight
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"The judge disagreed." - MIKE MASNICK, The Future of Speech Online, Otherwise Objectionable #OtherwiseObjectionable #MikeMasnick

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Is it just me? Ever since Mike Masnick went all-in on Bluesky, I just have no desire whatsoever to read anything at (or from) Techdirt.

It's like, Bluesky is obviously in its "gateway drug" period, but you can already see the enshittification coming (and bits are here, with them welcoming […]

We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else | Techdirt Masnick again on top form. Also, me, previously. Consider the broader implications: if we normalize blocking AI tools from accessing web content, where does it end? We’ve talked in the past about h…

We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else | Techdirt
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114895
#MikeMasnick #TechDirt #ai #blocking #llm

"The list goes on endlessly!" - MIKE MASNICK, Blowback, and the Dust Settles, Otherwise Objectionable #OtherwiseObjectionable #MikeMasnick

#MikeMasnick you are exactly, 100% correct. Been saying the same thing for 6 years now (!)

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About | Techdirt Masnick on fire: A law supposedly designed to protect children now requires victims of sexual assault to submit government IDs to access support communities. People struggling with addiction must u…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About | Techdirt
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114135
#AgeVerification #MikeMasnick #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #techdirt #vpn

"His intention was to prove that conversations with machines would be, well, ROBOTIC!" - MIKE MASNICK, The Future of Speech Online, Otherwise Objectionable #OtherwiseObjectionable #MikeMasnick

"I 'used' Usenet!" - MIKE MASNICK, The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet, Otherwise Objectionable #OtherwiseObjectionable #MikeMasnick

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) | Techdirt | …if you are not reading Mike Masnick, you are spectating rather than understanding So, here’s the bottom line: when WaPo’s opinion pages are being gutted and tech CEOs are seeking pre-approval from authoritarians, the line between “tech coverage” and “saving democracy” has basica…

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) | Techdirt | …if you are not reading Mike Masnick, you are spectating rather than understanding
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112600
#MikeMasnick #democracy #techdirt

Screenshot from ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ where he reads the Techdirt article headline: “Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well.”

Wow. (cc @mmasnick.bsky.social)

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#BlueSky renforce son conseil d'administration avec l'arrivée de #MikeMasnick, fondateur de #Techdirt. Sa vision d'un Internet plus ouvert aligne parfaitement avec celle de BlueSky, renforçant ainsi la crédibilité et l'innovation de la plateforme dans l'écosystème des réseaux sociaux décentralisés​.

Bluesky Enlists Techdirt Founder Mike Masnick to Board Bluesky enhances its leadership team by enlisting Techdirt founder Mike Masnick to its board, bringing fresh insights to its growing platform On Monday, Bluesky, a startup that competes with Decentralized X and provides a social network that allows users…

Bluesky enhances its leadership team by enlisting Techdirt founder Mike Masnick to its board, bringing fresh insights to its growing platform On Monday, Bluesky, a startup that competes with Decentralized X and provides a social network that allows users to select their… #Tech #bluesky #mikemasnick

Amazon.com: The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet eBook : Kosseff, Jeff: Kindle Store Amazon.com: The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet eBook : Kosseff, Jeff: Kindle Store

#book2read: The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet by #JeffKosseff via #MikeMasnick

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magically wipe out all the bad. That’s not just simplistic, it’s ahistorical..."
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