#mikemasnick — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mikemasnick, aggregated by home.social.
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Previously, I wrote:
> Regarding the security clearance revocation, we have only the #DOJ brief, but it reads a bit more seriously than the rest.
But that's because the #Trump DOJ is hammering on the language of Department of Navy v. Egan (1988) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/484/518/ and Lee v. Garland (2024) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/20-5221/20-5221-2024-10-29.html with all the bluster of a con artist or chat bot in a self-reinforcement loop. But both those cases were predicated on the presumption of regularity — that the appropriate agency, following procedure, undertook a careful determination and the review of which is a nonjusticiable political question. Trump's four #ExecutiveOrders make it clear that none of that happened and all of this is retaliation for not capitulating. And NRA v. Vullo (2024) https://www.oyez.org/cases/2023/22-842 seems to say that is coercion in violation of the First Amendment.
So #MikeMasnick argues https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/09/doj-un-drops-its-appeal-against-law-firms-files-brief-that-gets-the-first-amendment-exactly-backwards/
> The brief actually cites NRA v. Vullo, .... The Supreme Court held —unanimously — that government officials using their regulatory authority to punish or suppress disfavored private speech can violate the First Amendment, even if the official frames their actions in terms of legitimate regulatory interests.
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> Vullo actually undercuts their entire argument. The point of the Vullo framework is that when government speech is coupled with government action designed to punish disfavored private expression, the combination can be unconstitutional coercion. The administration [tries the ruse of] ”Section 1 is just government speech.” That’s precisely the move Vullo says you can’t get away with.
So maybe that security clearance revocation is just as much Jello as Trump's Florida lawsuit against the BBC.
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Is it just me? Ever since Mike Masnick went all-in on Bluesky, I just have no desire whatsoever to read anything at (or from) Techdirt.
It's like, Bluesky is obviously in its "gateway drug" period, but you can already see the enshittification coming (and bits are here, with them welcoming fascism and silencing dissent), and Masnick still cheerleading for it being good and proper and wholesome and just what the 'net needs just fills me with rage.
He's supposed to have more sense than that.
#TechDirt #MikeMasnick #BlueSky #rage #fediverse #mastodon #gateway #GatewayDrug #enshittification #e14n #Masnick #fascism #dissent #rage
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/ #NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/ #NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/ #NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/ #NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/
#NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/
#NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/
#NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/
#NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/gop-cries-censorship-over-spam-filters-that-work/
#NationalRepublicanCongressionalCommittee #NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee #RepublicanNationalCommittee #FederalTradeCommission #RaymondDijkxhoorn #ALittleSunshine #AtroTossavainen #AndrewFerguson #TheNewYorkPost #PekkaJalonen #SundarPichai #Koli-LõksOÜ #MikeMasnick #404Media #Alphabet #Techdirt #ActBlue #WinRed #SURBL
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DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/doge-to-fired-cisa-staff-email-us-your-personal-data/
#U.S.Cybersecurity&InfrastructureSecurityAgency #U.S.CitizenshipandImmigrationServices #CentralIntelligenceAgency #nationalsecurityagency #ChristopherStanley #ALittleSunshine #TheNewYorkTimes #TheComingStorm #HunterStrategy #JakeWilliams #MikeMasnick #ShaneHarris #TheAtlantic #FannieMae #KashPatel #RobJoyce #Starlink #Techdirt #NBCNews #DOGE
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DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/doge-to-fired-cisa-staff-email-us-your-personal-data/ #USCybersecurity&InfrastructureSecurityAgency #USCitizenshipandImmigrationServices #CentralIntelligenceAgency #nationalsecurityagency #ChristopherStanley #ALittleSunshine #TheNewYorkTimes #TheComingStorm #HunterStrategy #JakeWilliams #MikeMasnick #ShaneHarris #TheAtlantic #FannieMae #KashPatel #RobJoyce #Starlink #Techdirt #NBCNews #DOGE
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Why generative AI companies should pay artists to create new works, and give away the results
The latest obsession in the world of copyright is trying to get generative AI companies to pay for using creative material for training purposes. As various posts have noted, this makes no sense, because training is just a matter of analysis, which requires no permission. What the copyright world wants to do is to erect further barriers to accessing knowledge and […]
#ai #artists #blogger #blogs #creativity #generativeAi #google #meta #MikeMasnick #musicIndustry #openai #patronage #simonSchuster #Techdirt #youtube
https://walledculture.org/why-generative-ai-companies-should-pay-artists-to-create-new-works-and-give-away-the-results/
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Mickey Mouse is public domain now, but the battle to prevent copyright term extensions is not over
The beginning of the year is a great time for the public domain, since it sees thousands of copyrighted works released from the intellectual monopoly that prevents their free creative use. Which works enter the public domain depends on the details of local copyright law, which varies around the world. But there’s a liberation that has taken place in the US that is …
#bargain #copyrightExtension #demonetisation #disney #donaldDuck #jamesBond #MickeyMouse #MikeMasnick #pluto #publicDomain #steamboatWillie #superman #Techdirt #tolkien #US #youtube
https://walledculture.org/mickey-mouse-is-public-domain-now-but-the-battle-to-prevent-copyright-term-extensions-is-not-over/