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New Right To Repair Bill Targets Obnoxious Auto Industry Behavior

It's just no fun being a giant company aspiring to monopolize repair to boost revenues. On both the state and federal level, a. ....

United-states , Massachusetts , Americans , John-deere , Techdirt-team , Professional-auto-industry , Auto-industry , Repair-act , Ight-to-repair ,

Conservatives Want Common Carriage. They're Not Going to Like It.

From calls to break up Big Tech to Florida’s latest anti-tech law, one thing is clear America’s lawmakers and bureaucrats are. ....

New-york , United-states , Florida , Americans , America , American , Kir-nuthi , Justice-thomas , Google , Knight-institute , Public-affairs , Twitter

We Stand On The Precipice Of World War III, But, Sure, Let's All Talk About The DMCA And 'Standard Technical Measures'

A whole bunch of people wasted Tuesday talking about technical measures. What technical measures, you might ask? The ones vaguely. ....

Cathy-gellis , Google , Copyright-office , Techdirt-team , Online-service-providers , Copia-institute , All-talk-about-the , Standard-technical , Service-providers , Senators-tillis , First-amendment , Progress-clause

Why It Makes No Sense To Call Websites 'Common Carriers'

There's been an unfortunate movement in the US over the last few years to try to argue that social media should be considered. ....

Ohio , United-states , Mike-masnick , Youtube , Twitter , Techdirt-team , Facebook , Interstate-commerce-act , Communications-act , New-york , Common-carriers , Ocial-media

Ohio Files Bizarre And Nonsensical Lawsuit Against Google, Claiming It's A Common Carrier; But What Does That Even Mean?

There's been this bizarre fascination among conservatives that tons of internet companies should be declared "common. ....

Ohio , United-states , Clarence-thomas , Mike-masnick , Mark-zuckerberg , Justice-thomas , Google , Techdirt-team , Facebook , Common-carrier , What-does-that-even , Results-pages