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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 21, 2026
“Free Speech” President Admits He’s “Banning The Free Press” From The White House
Apparently autumn is when President Donald Trump feels free to admit to his anti-free speech, anti-free press ways. For a guy who constantly lied about being in support of free speech, despite regularly suing people and news organizations for their speech, he's been remarkably willing to admit to wanting to abuse power to suppress speech...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 18, 2026
Desperate DHS Demanded Info On Beanie Cap Buyers While Trying To Prosecute Journalists
Some day we'll look back at this and laugh. I mean, I would hope so. The DOJ and DHS are still trying to put people in jail for protesting a church whose pastor was also an ICE officer. Ultimately, the protesters entered the church and disrupted the service. Among those entering the church were a...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 17, 2026
Brendan Carr Cries, Calls Jimmy Kimmel Censorship A ‘Hoax’
Last week comedian Jimmy Kimmel said Jimmy Kimmel Live! and ABC wouldn't be airing an interview with Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico on broadcast because they were worried it would anger Trump's top censorship czar, FCC boss Brendan Carr. Kimmel and ABC had cause to worry; we've outlined in detail how Carr has manufactured...
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Little Green Footballs
Little Green FootballsSep 10, 2026
Kimmel: Trump Makes 9/11 About Himself, A.I. Ready to Kill Us & Jimmy to Interview James Talarico on YouTube
The real news is that ABC News is knuckling under to Donald Trump's censorship demands. The first night of NFL football is upon us, Guillermo is a week away from competing on “Dancing with the Stars” and he is really hoping to lose weight so he does his official weigh in before the season starts, financial disclosures reveal that Trump gave cash gifts to various people that work him including $45,ooo to Natalie Harp, he has been busy this ...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 10, 2026
Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Air James Talarico Interview On ABC For Fear Of FCC Reprisal
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel‘s planned Thursday interview with Texas Senatorial hopeful James Talarico didn't air on ABC broadcast TV because network lawyers were worried about Trump FCC censorship and reprisal. Instead, the interview will air on the late-night show’s YouTube channel, Kimmel stated during his latest late night Jimmy Kimmel Live monologue: https://youtu.be/gIbSEScdV2o?si=6ExUtVCBUK8oAEX_&t=534 "You know, for...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 8, 2026
Cool Cool Cool: Hegseth’s DoD Is Running A Secret Network Of Online Influencers
It would be nice to go a day or two (or three-day weekend!) without being apprised of some new awfulness from this administration. Since that's not going to happen, let's check in with the latest shitshow! And here it is: the Pentagon has "enlisted" some X.com influencers to thrust and parry on behalf of the...
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taco 'bout it
taco 'bout itSep 7, 2026
arkansas has put the library card on probation
an Arkansas censorship law has turned ordinary library use into a maze of age zones, checkout bans, and criminal-risk management.
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 18, 2026
ABC Sues The FCC For Massive First Amendment Violations
After years of feckless capitulation, ABC is clearly developing something vaguely resembling a backbone. The company has filed a new lawsuit against Brendan Carr and the FCC (pdf), (correctly) claiming that the agency has been engaged in a coordinated campaign of harassment that violates the First Amendment and tramples the company's free speech rights. The...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 5, 2026
Trump’s War On Journalists Also Includes Targeting A Freelance NYT Contributor
Donald Trump took possession of a $400 million "gift" plane from the Qatari government earlier this year. Trump claimed it was a coup for taxpayers and a boon for America, even as he made it clear this was all about him. According to Trump, no plane was more luxurious than this graft-y replacement for the...
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Techdirt
TechdirtJul 29, 2026
Trump Admin’s Campaign Against ‘Radical Left Terrorism’ Is Built On A National Security Memo With No Congressional Approval
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. A little-noticed presidential national security directive is now the legal engine behind a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters. That domestic campaign now has an international dimension, one that American officials had been planning for months, culminating on...
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Techdirt
TechdirtJul 29, 2026
Former FCC Officials Line Up To Blast Brendan Carr’s Lawless Censorship Of ABC
A bipartisan roster of former top-level FCC officials have submitted a filing to the Trump FCC blasting the agency's ongoing violations of the First Amendment and urging it to terminate its phony "investigations" into ABC -- including the unprecedented early ownership review of the company's broadcast licenses. In the filing, former FCC officials allied under...
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Fighting Bad Internet Bills
Fighting Bad Internet BillsJul 5, 2026
N things you can do today to fight bad internet bills across the world
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Geoffrey Richard
Geoffrey RichardJun 6, 2026
The Galileo Gambit: Scientific Liberty, Consensus, and the Cost of Persuasion
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The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialMay 4, 2026
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-04-26
Saturday was Newsletter day and I was busy on Sunday, so our daily Pook-Emu Bee links had the weekend off. But there are no such impediments this Monday, so I am back with my regularly scheduled links. 1. Indie developer lands in Steam approval limbo after being flagged for IP infringement over in-game references to...
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 26, 2025
Over-Filtering The Internet
Despite many, many failed attempts to do so, people keep trying to filter the internet. Let’s look at the lens of the current moment through past attempts—including one led by, of all people, a librarian.
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Numergent
NumergentApr 29, 2025
Threat models
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Numergent
NumergentApr 18, 2025
Unstoppability depends on mutual aid
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Numergent
NumergentSep 14, 2021
Small world
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Numergent
NumergentMay 14, 2021
The Netflixification of digital money
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 21, 2020
Not-So-Clear Channel
In a time of national crisis, an emergent broadcast radio giant, Clear Channel, banned a bunch of songs from the airwaves. Or did it?
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 20, 2019
No Nunchucks
How the quirks of a conservative British censor led one of the most popular cartoons in history to appear in censored form during the height of its success.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMar 27, 2018
An Institute You Can’t Disparage
How an activist named Terry Rakolta tried—and failed—to convince Middle America to stop watching “Married … With Children.” She might have saved Fox.
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The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Journal for Cultural and Religious TheoryJan 1, 2005
Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action
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