UK Search Engines Will Sign Up To A 'Voluntary' Code On Piracy — Or Face The...
As Techdirt readers know, the copyright industry has almost no means to tackle infringement, or to demand that pirated materials are removed from Internet sites. At least, that’s the impression you...
View ArticleShouldn't Federal Judges Understand That Congress Did Not Pass SOPA?
We’ve discussed in the past the completely ridiculous attacks on Sci-Hub, a site that should be celebrated as an incredible repository of all the world’s academic knowledge. It’s an incredible and...
View ArticleEuropean News Agencies Again Demand Google, Facebook, Etc. Pay Up For Sending...
Because it’s worked oh so well in the past, European news agencies are (again!) calling for service providers like Google and Facebook to start paying them money for sending them business. Nine...
View ArticleFive Senators Agree: Search Engines Should Censor Drug Information
The US government would like to be involved in the web censorship business. The anti-sex trafficking bill recently passed by the House would do just that, forcing service providers to pre-censor...
View ArticleThere's A Reason That Misleading Claims Of Bias In Search And Social Media...
President Trump’s tweets charging that Google search results are biased, against him and against conservatives, are the loudest and latest version of a growing attack on search engines and social...
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TurboTax Did Everything It Could To Hide The Free-Filing Its Supposed To Offer
For years, advocates for the non-wealthy public have put forward plans to simplify the tax-preparation process by having the IRS pre-prepare a tax filing with the information it already has, sending...
View ArticleOther Big CJEU Case Says Google Must Put Certain Links At The Top Of Search...
While most of the attention today was focused on the CJEU “right to be forgotten” ruling concerning global censorship, the court actually released another ruling concerning the right to be forgotten,...
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Performative Conservatives Are Mad That A Search Engine Wants To Downrank...
DuckDuckGo, of course, is a popular “alternative” search engine, using Microsoft’s Bing as its underlying search engine but then doing a bunch of generally good stuff for the wider internet/public,...
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If It’s Impossible To Compete With Google, How Come New Search Engines Keep...
We’re talking a lot these days about competition and antitrust, and the narrative over the past few years is that four companies — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google — have basically sewn up the...
View ArticleA Bunch Of Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Copyright Infringement, Because They...
You may have seen some headlines recently about some authors filing lawsuits against OpenAI. The lawsuits (plural, though I’m confused why it’s separate attempts at filing a class action lawsuit,...
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