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Alex. We begin with Breaking News, just minutes ago, the judge in the Election Interference case now ordering Donald Trumps team to respond to the governments motion for a Protective Order again in the election case. Stating their position on the matter by five pm on monday. Requests for Protective Order came after the former president posted on truth social, quote, if you go after me im coming after you. Joining us, now glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor and now msnbc legal analyst. He w...

I was on the Google campus when the AP's Google News China story broke (it's been followed by the Merc and others). I've been hanging back and not commenting as it percolated earlier in the week (ie this Slashdot thread), waiting for something which advanced the story. David Krane, who's...

Posts about automated takedowns written by Mike Masnick, Dark Helmet, and Techdirt

The tune Glory to Hong Kong has become synonymous with pro-democracy demonstrations in the territory.

For years, we've criticized Twitter's DMCA policy, in which it completely disappears tweets that are subject to DMCA takedown notices it receives. The company, as part of its transparency campaign, has now changed its policy slightly, such that it will now replace the taken down tweet with one that indicates the tweet was removed due…

Kickstarter's new partnership with Chilling Effects illuminates the diversity of cease and desist notices, and the different reasons someone might file a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint.

So, yesterday, as you may have heard, we wrote about how a totally bogus DMCA takedown notice, coming from an "anti-piracy" firm called Armovore, deleted a key Techdirt blog post about SOPA/PIPA from Google's search results. That post apparently got some attention within Google, who kicked off an expedited review and reinstated our site and…

Yesterday I wrote up a first reaction to the Megaupload case. Having spent some more time going through the indictment in much greater...

Throughout the campaign, we noted how Donald Trump's views on the First Amendment and free speech were horrific. While some of his...

We've talked a lot about Donald Trump and his ridiculous views on defamation and the First Amendment -- including his penchant for...