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This Week In Techdirt History: March 1st – 7th Five Years Ago This week in 2021, while AT&T was apparently committed to being comically hypocritical about Section 230, Utah was prematurely trying to dance on 230’s grave with a new and…

This Week In Techdirt History: March 1st – 7th
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/07/this-week-in-techdirt-history-march-1st-7th/

Iceland Foods Finally Surrenders In Trademark Fight With Iceland, The Country The ten year war over Iceland is over and Iceland has come out the victor. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, be prepared to listen to a whole bunch of stupid. In 2016, we wrote …

Iceland Foods Finally Surrenders In Trademark Fight With Iceland, The Country
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/iceland-foods-finally-surrenders-in-trademark-fight-with-iceland-the-country/

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Ku…

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/

Utah’s Proposal To Tax Online Pornography Is A Civil Liberties Disaster Waiting To Happen Republican lawmakers in Utah have long been on the cutting edge of shitty policymaking when it comes to regulating the internet. The latest chapter in that legacy is a proposed tax on porn and adul…

Utah’s Proposal To Tax Online Pornography Is A Civil Liberties Disaster Waiting To Happen
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/utahs-proposal-to-tax-online-pornography-is-a-civil-liberties-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

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Daily Deal: The Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows License + Windows 11 Pro Bundle
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Anthropic’s Statement To The ‘Department Of War’ Reads Like A Hostage Note Written In Business Casual We’ve been covering the ongoing saga of the Trump administration’s attempt to destroy Anthropic for the sin of having modest ethical guidelines around its AI technology. The short versi…

Anthropic’s Statement To The ‘Department Of War’ Reads Like A Hostage Note Written In Business Casual
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/anthropics-statement-to-the-department-of-war-reads-like-a-hostage-note-written-in-business-casual/

Oregon Federal Judge Says ICE’s Warrantless Arrests Are Illegal ICE has been telling itself all it needs to do is write its own paperwork and it can do whatever it wants. Memos — passed around secretively and publicly acknowledged by no one but whistleblo…

Oregon Federal Judge Says ICE’s Warrantless Arrests Are Illegal
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/oregon-federal-judge-says-ices-warrantless-arrests-are-illegal/

The Double Whammy Of The CBS, Warner Brothers Mergers Will Be A Layoff Nightmare You might recall that Paramount and CBS had only just started to lay off workers in the wake of the merger with David Ellison’s Skydance. Now, after Ellison (or more accurately his dad and th…

The Double Whammy Of The CBS, Warner Brothers Mergers Will Be A Layoff Nightmare
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/the-double-whammy-of-the-cbs-warner-brothers-mergers-will-be-a-layoff-nightmare/

Trump Administration Using Gross Video Game Footage To Cheerlead Its War Efforts We should all know by now that this iteration of the Trump administration absolutely loves using pop culture imagery, including that of video games, to help message its horrible policies. Want to g…

Trump Administration Using Gross Video Game Footage To Cheerlead Its War Efforts
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/05/trump-administration-using-gross-video-game-footage-to-cheerlead-its-war-efforts/

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The (Content Moderation) Eras Tour Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, …

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The (Content Moderation) Eras Tour
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/05/ctrl-alt-speech-the-content-moderation-eras-tour/

OpenAI Rewrites Contract, Anthropic Returns to Negotiate—The Chaos Continues In less than a week, the Pentagon blacklisted an AI company for having ethics, declared it a supply chain risk, watched its preferred replacement face a massive user revolt, and then sat down to am…

OpenAI Rewrites Contract, Anthropic Returns to Negotiate—The Chaos Continues
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/05/openai-rewrites-contract-anthropic-returns-to-negotiate-the-chaos-continues/

Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Corey Lewandowski’s Role In DHS Contracts This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem misled Congress on Tuesday about the…

Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Corey Lewandowski’s Role In DHS Contracts
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/05/kristi-noem-misled-congress-about-corey-lewandowskis-role-in-dhs-contracts/

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Daily Deal: Babbel Language Learning (All Languages)
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Judges To AG Pam Bondi: It’s OK For The Gov’t To Dox People, But Not OK For People To Dox Gov’t Employees? Yet another one to add to the “it’s OK if we do it” file for the Trump administration. This administration is cool with censoring speech, nationalizing elections, seizing the mean…

Judges To AG Pam Bondi: It’s OK For The Gov’t To Dox People, But Not OK For People To Dox Gov’t Employees?
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/05/judges-to-ag-pam-bondi-its-ok-for-the-govt-to-dox-people-but-not-ok-for-people-to-dox-govt-employees/

Section 230 Isn’t The Problem: Debating The Law On The Majority Report Section 230 remains one of the most misunderstood laws in America, and that misunderstanding keeps producing policy proposals that would make the internet worse, not better. Last year, I wrote a le…

Section 230 Isn’t The Problem: Debating The Law On The Majority Report
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/05/section-230-isnt-the-problem-debating-the-law-on-the-majority-report/

FCC Approves Cox, Charter Merger On Condition They Promise To Be More Racist Hey look everyone! More of that famous populism Trump rode into power on!The Trump FCC has announced they’re rubber stamping the approval of a merger between two of the nation’s biggest…

FCC Approves Cox, Charter Merger On Condition They Promise To Be More Racist
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/05/fcc-approves-cox-charter-merger-on-condition-they-promise-to-be-more-racist/

ACIP To Discuss COVID ‘Vaccine Injuries’ Next Month, Despite That Not Being In Its Purview It was plainly obvious when RFK Jr. decided to fully remake ACIP, the CDC committee that advises the nation on immunization schedules and practices, that it was done so to place Kennedy sycophants …

ACIP To Discuss COVID ‘Vaccine Injuries’ Next Month, Despite That Not Being In Its Purview
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/04/acip-to-discuss-covid-vaccine-injuries-next-month-despite-that-not-being-in-its-purview/

Trump Officials Attended a Summit Of Election Deniers Who Want The President To Take Over The Midterms This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figure…

Trump Officials Attended a Summit Of Election Deniers Who Want The President To Take Over The Midterms
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/04/trump-officials-attended-a-summit-of-election-deniers-who-want-the-president-to-take-over-the-midterms/

FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children’s Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That We’ve been pointing out the fundamental contradiction at the heart of mandatory age verification laws for years now. To verify someone’s age online, you have to collect personal data fr…

FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children’s Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/04/ftc-admits-age-verification-violates-childrens-privacy-law-decides-to-just-ignore-that/

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Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle
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Judge Says He’s Sick Of The Government’s Shit; Threatens To Make DHS, DOJ Testify Under Oath Of course, we’ll see what comes of this, but it’s starting to look like this administration won’t outlast this level of judicial scrutiny. It may have bullied its way past courts …

Judge Says He’s Sick Of The Government’s Shit; Threatens To Make DHS, DOJ Testify Under Oath
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/04/judge-says-hes-sick-of-the-governments-shit-threatens-to-make-dhs-doj-testify-under-oath/

The Trump Administration Just Admitted Its War On Law Firms Was A Bluff. The Cowards Who Folded Already Paid The Price. We’ve said it over and over again on this site: when you stand up to the bully, the bully backs down. When you capitulate, you get nothing but a permanent stain and an invitation for more abu…

The Trump Administration Just Admitted Its War On Law Firms Was A Bluff. The Cowards Who Folded Already Paid The Price.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/04/the-trump-administration-just-admitted-its-war-on-law-firms-was-a-bluff-the-cowards-who-folded-already-paid-the-price/

Brendan Carr Can’t Explain Why ‘Equal Time’ Rule Doesn’t Apply To Right Wing Radio We’ve noted repeatedly how Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has been abusing the FCC’s “equal opportunity” (or “equal time”) rule to try and threaten daytime and late…

Brendan Carr Can’t Explain Why ‘Equal Time’ Rule Doesn’t Apply To Right Wing Radio
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/04/brendan-carr-cant-explain-why-equal-time-rule-doesnt-apply-to-right-wing-radio/

OPM Musical Artist Gets Copyright Notice For Performing His Own Song It’s a tale as old as time, assuming time began a decade or two ago. A music artist who just wants to make and perform their craft gets on the internet and performs the song he or she created…

OPM Musical Artist Gets Copyright Notice For Performing His Own Song
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/03/opm-musical-artist-gets-copyright-notice-for-performing-his-own-song/

Fuck ICE Says West Virginia Court, Threatening Fines And Contempt Charges The administration has burnt the “presumption of regularity” to a crispness normally reserved for conquered bridges succumbing to heat death. It is now well known that the Trump adminis…

Fuck ICE Says West Virginia Court, Threatening Fines And Contempt Charges
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/03/fuck-ice-says-west-virginia-court-threatening-fines-and-contempt-charges/

Rubio To World: Stop Doing The Exact Same Thing The US Just Did The State Department wants US diplomats to fight data localization around the world. The policy position is correct. It’s just that the messenger has spent the last few months systematically …

Rubio To World: Stop Doing The Exact Same Thing The US Just Did
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/03/rubio-to-world-stop-doing-the-exact-same-thing-the-us-just-did/

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Daily Deal: The 2026 Ultimate GenAI Masterclass Bundle
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Minnesota Judge Shuts Down DHS’s Attempt To Expel Thousands Of Refugees The Trump administration is purposefully cruel. That much cannot be argued, not when it has deliberately sent deportees to foreign torture prisons, dumped them in war-torn countries with histories …

Minnesota Judge Shuts Down DHS’s Attempt To Expel Thousands Of Refugees
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/03/minnesota-judge-shuts-down-dhss-attempt-to-expel-thousands-of-refugees/

Ron Wyden Is Begging His Colleagues To Stop Trying To Hand Trump A Censorship Weapon We’ve been writing about Section 230 for a very long time. We’ve written about why it matters, why the people attacking it are wrong, and why most of the proposed “reforms” …

Ron Wyden Is Begging His Colleagues To Stop Trying To Hand Trump A Censorship Weapon
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/03/ron-wyden-is-begging-his-colleagues-to-stop-trying-to-hand-trump-a-censorship-weapon/

GOP “Antitrust Concerns” Magically Disappear Now That Larry Ellison Is Buying Warner Brothers  You might have noticed that when Netflix was attempting to acquire Warner Brothers, Republicans were suddenly and uncharacteristically interested in media consolidation and antitrust reform. Republ…

GOP “Antitrust Concerns” Magically Disappear Now That Larry Ellison Is Buying Warner Brothers 
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/03/gop-antitrust-concerns-magically-disappear-now-that-larry-ellison-is-buying-warner-brothers/