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Blacksky Demonstrates The Promise Of Open Social Media Protocols
The goal of Bluesky and the ATProtocol, and of the push for protocols over platforms in general, has always been to see more people building their own communities in a modular fashion. One of the mos…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Data Portability Is Crucial For The AI Future
As we've been thinking and writing about the intersection of democracy and technology, especially burgeoning AI technology, we always come back to the core issues of user control and user freedom. Re…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Media Capitulation Index
One of the most troubling things about this era in American history is the number of institutions that have caved to Trump's bullying and given him what he wants, especially when it comes to media or…
Published on 3 months ago
What's Next For Ctrl-Alt-Speech
We've got a bunch of brand new episodes of the Techdirt podcast coming over the next few weeks, but first we've got one special cross-post from our other podcast made in partnership with Ben Whitelaw…
Published on 3 months ago
Reclaiming The Internet
We've got one more cross-post episode for you this week! A few weeks ago, Mike joined host Aaron Ross Powell on the ReImagining Liberty podcast for a discussion that digs into the the philosophy and …
Published on 4 months ago
A History Of Techdirt, And More
This week, we've got a cross-post episode of Mike's appearance on Kevin Williamson's How The World Works podcast. Kevin conducted a wide-ranging interview that covers some of the earliest days of Tec…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Political Power Of Mockery
In a world awash with misinformation and disinformation, those who spread and benefit from the chaos have worked hard to brand fact-checking and counterspeech as a form of censorship — and it's a wor…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Fracturing Internet
Way, way back during the SOPA/PIPA fight, a very important part of the resistance against the bills was coming from infrastructure operators who explained how they were technically incoherent and dan…
Published on 5 months ago
The FTC's Quixotic Social Media Inquiry
We've got a cross-post episode for you this week, courtesy of the Tech Policy Podcast by TechFreedom, hosted by Corbin Barthold. Both TechFreedom and The Copia Institute submitted comments on the FTC…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Blitzscaling For Tyrants
In something of a followup to our last episode about Elon Musk's playbook, today we're digging deeper into the comparison between Washington and Silicon Valley and what it tells us about DOGE. Johns …
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago