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@rss.ponder.cathttps://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/19/congress-poised-to-bring-back-unfettered-patent-trolling/
Have you been missing patent trolls destroying innovation and making products you like more expensive? Have you felt that, maybe, some lawyers who did nothing but send extortionate shakedown letter…
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/extwitters-brazil-ban-evasion-cloudflare-cdn-becomes-latest-battleground/
Update: Annnnnnnnd… Cloudflare has already said it will isolate and block Brazilian IP addresses from reaching ExTwitter. Original story below. It appears that Elon has decided to take the Br…
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/kosa-advances-out-of-house-committee-but-cracks-are-showing/
This morning, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a pretty long markup about KOSA, COPPA 2.0, and other bills. The quick summary is that both of those bills passed out of committee and cou…
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/the-wikimedia-foundation-successfully-sees-off-another-slapp-suit-but-more-protection-is-needed-globally/
Wikipedia seems such an essential and benign aspect of the online world that it is hard to understand why people would want to attack it in the courts. But it is nonetheless subject to lawsuits tha…
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/settlement-in-florida-book-ban-lawsuit-means-a-bunch-of-books-are-headed-back-to-school-libraries/
Florida’s legislative antipathy towards free speech and general overall bigotry has generated plenty of bad laws and plenty of fully justified lawsuits. Earlier this month, the state’s …
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/daily-deal-devdojo-pro-premium-content-tools-and-courses-for-devs-5/
This DevDojo Pro subscription gives you access to a set of tools to help you build your next great idea. Start with the Page Creator, where you’ll find Tailwind CSS Page Builder, a tool for c…
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/ex-moviepass-ceo-admits-to-lots-of-fraud/
Back in 2022, you might recall that ex-Moviepass executives Theodore Farnsworth and J. Mitchell Lowe were charged by the DOJ for wire and securities fraud, after it was found they’d repeatedl…
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/house-looks-to-make-kosa-and-coppa-worse/
If you had that Congress was going to take bad “protect the children” bills and make them worse on your bingo card, congratulations, you’ve won this week’s easiest prediction. This seems like a not…
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/17/sports-bar-bullies-seafood-joint-to-change-menu-item-name-over-crab-fries-trademark/
It’s amazing just how many of the trademark disputes we cover here are only disputes because the USPTO granted a trademark that it shouldn’t have. The examples of this sort of thing are…
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/17/eus-top-censor-out-of-a-job/
Thierry Breton has finally taken the next logical step in his role as the EU’s censor: he’s talked himself out of his job. Over the last few years, Thierry Breton, the former CEO of France Telecom,…