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The WSJ Never Retracted Its Bobby Kotick Story. His Lawyers Act Like It Did. (opens the original)
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Every so often a piece of reporting is so thorough that I don’t have much to add. So let me start with this: everyone should watch Mikhail Klimentov’s comprehensive investigation, into how former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick appears to have used the infamous lawyers at Clare Locke to suppress negative reporting about himself. The People Make Games YouTube channel was willing to publish the piece, which is deeply researched (and I’m sure reviewed by some pretty serious lawyers): As the vi
Teen Sadness And Suicidal Thoughts Keep Falling, Even As Kids Keep Scrolling (opens the original)
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But this contradicts my agenda! Can’t you just ignore the facts “for the sake of the children?!?” …and my political and business aspirations? Notice that all the proposed “do something” solutions for mental health issues never involve making the world a better place for teens to grow up in, stopping greedy selfish assholes from running the country, or cracking down on all the adults who take out their issues on their kids. Conservatives making up fake issues and making targets out furries and tr
Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is (opens the original)
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This is a whole lot of words dedicated to deliberately misreading. The executive did not say that this was the “largest theft of writing,” or the “largest theft of literature,” or “largest theft of copyrighted material in human history.” He said that it’s the “largest theft of labor in human history.” Whether or not it was ‘copyright infringement,’ these AI companies took the written works from thousands and thousands of writers, mostly without their consent or even their knowledge, and used it
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Duty Of Careful What You Wish For (opens the original)
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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, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on Patreon. In this week’s episode, Mike and Ben cover: And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover: Our fun links this week include the mult
tragedy – Techdirt (opens the original)
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Twenty-five years ago today I was woken up by a phone call from a close friend, who, like me, grew up in New York and, like me, was now living in California. She told me that something horrible had happened in New York and to turn on the TV. She said something about a plane flying into the World Trade Center, and I assumed it was a small Cessna or something that went horribly off-course. It was only once I turned on the TV news (and started searching the internet) that I began to comprehend what
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