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This Week In Techdirt History: December 14th – 20th Five Years Ago This week in 2020, USA Today published its latest bogus oped against Section 230 that misrepresented the law, a district court rejected CDT’s challenge of Trump’s ridiculous executive order about 230, and Trump appointed an unqualified 230-hater to a top DOJ role. Lindsay Graham threatened to repeal 230 if it wasn’t reformed, […]

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This Week In Techdirt History: December 14th – 20th

Five Years Ago This week in 2020, USA Today published its latest bogus oped against Section 230 that misrepresented the law, a district court rejec...

California Brings Former CDC Staff On To Do The Work RFK Jr. Refuses To Do Nationally With national public health being run by RFK Jr., or run into the ground if you prefer, it’s been left to individual states to figure out where and how to fill in the gaps. Some states, such as Florida, have fully embraced Kennedy’s anti-scientific posture and are moving as quickly as possible to dismantle public […]

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California Brings Former CDC Staff On To Do The Work RFK Jr. Refuses To Do Nationally

With national public health being run by RFK Jr., or run into the ground if you prefer, it’s been left to individual states to figure out whe...

The Best Big Media Merger Is No Merger At All The state of streaming is… bad. It’s very bad. The first step in wanting to watch anything is a web search: “Where can I stream X?” Then you have to scroll past an AI summary with no answers, and then scroll past the sponsored links. After that, you find out that the thing you want […]

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The Best Big Media Merger Is No Merger At All

The state of streaming is… bad. It’s very bad. The first step in wanting to watch anything is a web search: “Where can I stream X?” The...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered To Release Some Of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out. This story was originally published by the Texas Tribune and the Texas Newsroom and co-published with ProPublica. Republished under the Texas Tribune’s republish feature. Months after fighting to keep secret the emails exchanged between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and tech billionaire Elon Musk’s companies, state officials released nearly 1,400 pages to The Texas Newsroom. The records, however, reveal little about the […]

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered To Release Some Of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.

This story was originally published by the Texas Tribune and the Texas Newsroom and co-published with ProPublica. Republished under the Texas Tr...

ACIP Decides More Newborns Do Need To Catch Hepatitis B The fucking maniacs did it. We talked yesterday about how newborn vaccinations for hepatitis B were on the agenda for this latest meeting at ACIP, the CDC’s immunization advisory panel. You likely know all this already, but RFK Jr. fired all ACIP panel members earlier this year, replacing them with hand-picked anti-vaxxer quack-jobs who are […]

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ACIP Decides More Newborns Do Need To Catch Hepatitis B

The fucking maniacs did it. We talked yesterday about how newborn vaccinations for hepatitis B were on the agenda for this latest meeting at ACIP, ...

New FOIAs Show Barr’s DOJ Coordinated With Congress On Destroying Section 230 During the last year of the Trump administration, there was this weird period where the Bill Barr DOJ decided that it could destroy the internet. It came out of Donald Trump declaring that Section 230 was bad for whatever reason Donald Trump thinks anything is bad, and telling his Attorney General to do something about […]

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New FOIAs Show Barr’s DOJ Coordinated With Congress On Destroying Section 230

During the last year of the Trump administration, there was this weird period where the Bill Barr DOJ decided that it could destroy the internet. I...

The New CBS Already Promising Major, ‘Painful’ Layoffs U.S. media mergers always follow the same trajectory. Pre-merger, executives promise all manner of amazing synergies and deal benefits. Post-merger, not only to those benefits generally never arrive, the debt from the acquisition spree usually results in significant layoffs, lower quality product, and higher rates for consumers. The Time Warner Discovery disaster was the poster […]

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The New CBS Already Promising Major, ‘Painful’ Layoffs

U.S. media mergers always follow the same trajectory. Pre-merger, executives promise all manner of amazing synergies and deal benefits. Post-merger...

Leaking By Leaving: Guest Finds Trump-Putin Summit Docs In Alaskan Hotel Room While this latest bit of low-key embarrassment may not be a black eye for the administration, it certainly isn’t putting any more lipstick on this pig. Whatever you may think about the recent summit meeting between these two international besties, you can be assured that some of the attendees thought even less of it than […]

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Leaking By Leaving: Guest Finds Trump-Putin Summit Docs In Alaskan Hotel Room

While this latest bit of low-key embarrassment may not be a black eye for the administration, it certainly isn’t putting any more lipstick on...