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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 5h

I keep hearing this is over, is this the time it’s really over???

www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...

Germany’s no halts EU plan to combat child sexual abuse content online

The European Commission proposed the measures in 2022, but member states cannot reach an agreement, citing privacy and cybersecurity concerns.

www.euronews.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 20h

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now.

We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d

AI did not kill this free and open resource, but the AI goldrush did. AI companies are hungry for training data. Companies that control access to content are locking it down in hopes of cashing in.

The rest of us are bystanders watching the demise of the greatest information resource ever built.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d

That post is from a competitor, but its explanation of what happened seems fine.

Casetext was acquired by Thompson Reuters. Here are Redditor lawyers talking about antitrust objections.

www.reddit.com/r/Lawyertalk...

From the Lawyertalk community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Lawyertalk community

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d

We're watching the open web die piece by piece every day and it sucks.

I had missed the death of Casetext. It was a great free resource to access some of the information that should most be free: the law.

callidusai.com/blog/casetex...

Casetext Shut Down: Here's What It Means—And Why Callidus Is Ready - Callidus Legal AI

The shuttering of Casetext has major implications for the attorneys that relied on it. Callidus Legal AI is here to fill the void.

callidusai.com

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 2d

nope

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry!

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely sorry

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 2d

This topic is now closed.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 2d

The Dead Kennedys are the real DK.
I’m second.
@davidakaye.bsky.social and Dave Kramer are tied for third.
Donna Karan is a distant fourth or more.

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 2d

Speakers include @genevievelakier.bsky.social, Derek Bambauer, and moderator @daphnek.bsky.social. They’ll discuss post-Vullo developments, emerging vectors of influence, and how to balance government communication with protection from coercion. Register to attend:

The Future of Speech Online 2025: The Age of Constitutional Evasion: Jawboning and Other Forms of Government Pressure to Control Private Speech

Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, October 28-29, 2025 Times: Day One: noon-3:00 pm ET / 9:00 am-noon PT, Day Two: noon-3:00 pm ET / 9:00 am-noon PT Governments have always worked to shape the speech of private parties and these efforts have always threatened overcensorship of dissent and governmentally disfavored viewpoints. The current Administration in the […]

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 3d

🥁

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 6d

You know Carr has egregiously violated the law because there are signatories to this letter that would never agree with each other on where to go for lunch.

TechFreedom @techfreedom.org · 10d

1/ The FCC has no authority to police content for bias or balance.

We—and more than seventy other organizations and scholars—warned FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says

Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 7d

Hopefully?

DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent Q. Maybe unless you live somewhere with lots of real icy conditions.

DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 7d

I read a bio of Rosa Parks that said it took ten years after the bus incident before her household income got back to where it had been. Which was not great to begin with.

Principled resistance has costs. They get left out of the story a lot.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 7d

This would be around when Henry Rollins was doing Apple ads...

DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 7d

Um, wow. Assuming that's real, did the King family license it? (After creating IP anxiety for regular old civil rights groups?)

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 7d

I will again praise @404media.co for its consistently great reporting. I recommend a subscription for anyone interested in real news about the uses and abuses of tech in 2025.

DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 7d

Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all.

The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 7d

Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all.

The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 7d

yes

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 7d

For years I would try to convince people to build a platform where researchers or people could try out alternate rec systems. rec systems that might make you more knowledgeable rather than less or happier instead of miserable. Then bluesky just built it!

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

Why does Bluesky exist?

So that "you can just do things"

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we can just do things - underreacted

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 7d

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

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