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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 27, 2026
Oracle Helped Kneecap Section 230, Then Bought 15% Of A Company That Needs It.
Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTok's US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get Oracle to change its tune on Section 230. While not as widely known outside of Silicon Valley, Oracle has been a driving force behind the...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 17, 2026
Another California Court Has Now Broken Media Advertising, So The Copia Institute Asked Another California Appeals Court To Fix It
A few years ago a California appeals court produced the unfortunate Liapes v. Facebook decision. In this decision, it gave the go-ahead to age discrimination claims under California’s Unruh Act resulting from ads not being served to users of certain ages. It’s a nonsensical application of anti-discrimination law, because ads are not themselves the goods...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 14, 2026
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Watermark My Words
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation's Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 12, 2026
Ninth Circuit Rewrites Section 230 To Remove The Part That Actually Mattered
For all the talk of "reforming" or "repealing" Section 230 in Congress, the fact is that the courts over the past three or four years have effectively chipped away so steadily at the law that it's lost a significant chunk of its usefulness. The latest comes from the Ninth Circuit, which ruled earlier this week...
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 30, 2024
Did Section 230 Meet Its Match?
A new ruling from a federal appeals court finds that Section 230 protections may not apply to algorithms like the one TikTok uses. That could (potentially) be a big problem for the internet.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetFeb 28, 2023
Robot Hand is the Future
What I learned about YouTube’s algorithm from creating an account that only watched videos related to Elliott Smith. I fought hard, but the algorithm won.
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