Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Monday, July 15th, 2024 [3] Immunity Denied To Officer Who Claimed A Suicidal Man Pointed A Gun At Him Through His Own Head from the interesting-interpretation-of-'threat'-here dept by Tim Cushing - July 15th @ 8:11pm Far too many law enforcement officers believe [4]the best way to deal with suicidal people [ ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Sunday, July 14th, 2024 [3] Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the said-and-done dept by Leigh Beadon - July 14th @ 12:00pm This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about Gina Carano’s lawsuit against Disney, in response to another commenter [4] ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Saturday, July 13th, 2024 [3] This Week In Techdirt History: July 7th – 13th from the that-was-that dept by Leigh Beadon - July 13th @ 12:00pm Five Years Ago This week in 2019, we wrote about how getting rid of Section 230 would [4]just strengthen the internet giants, the dangers of [5]forthcoming deep fa ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Friday, July 12th, 2024 [3] Minnesota Law Says Cops Can’t Ask Drivers Why They’ve Been Pulled Over, But Ensures Cops Can Totally Do That Very Thing All The Time from the going-to-have-to-be-a-bit-more-upfront dept by Tim Cushing - July 12th @ 7:39pm Cops love a [4]pretextual stop. A perceived traffic infraction ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Thursday, July 11th, 2024 [3] Nike To Discontinue App For Expensive Shoes Already Bought, Breaking Some Features from the just-screw-it dept by Dark Helmet - July 11th @ 8:24pm Here we are again, with yet another example of how buying digital products, or buying products that have a digital component to them, do ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Wednesday, July 10th, 2024 [3] Appeals Court Tells Cops They Can’t Hold A House Hostage For Hours Before Finally Deciding To Get A Warrant from the Fourth-still-operative-no-matter-how-many-cops-are-dicking-around dept by Tim Cushing - July 10th @ 8:14pm Most people would respond to a possible drug overdose by seek ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Tuesday, July 9th, 2024 [3] Phoenix PD, Union Already Complaining About DOJ Consent Decree That Hasn’t Even Been Served Yet from the flow-my-tears,-the-union-rep-said dept by Tim Cushing - July 9th @ 8:28pm As all DOJ investigations of law enforcement agencies are, the one targeting the Phoenix, Arizona Police Depa ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Monday, July 8th, 2024 [3] Chicago PD Takes Step Towards Transparency, Will Release All Misconduct Records To The Public from the rare-bit-of-good-news-from-a-historically-terrible-agency dept by Tim Cushing - July 8th @ 8:25pm I don’t often praise law enforcement agencies, generally because they rarely do anyth ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Sunday, July 7th, 2024 [3] Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt from the so-sayeth dept by Leigh Beadon - July 7th @ 12:35pm This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment on our post about [4]clarifying robots.txt in the age of AI crawlers: As I under ...Continue Reading

Are you interested in receiving a shorter, easy-to-scan, email of post excerpts? Check our our new [1]Techdirt Daily Newsbrief [2] Techdirt Email. Stories from Saturday, July 6th, 2024 [3] This Week In Techdirt History: June 30th – July 6th from the oh-the-memories dept by Leigh Beadon - July 6th @ 12:00pm Five Years Ago This week in 2019, the Wall Street Journal came out with [4]an op-ed in defense of Section 230, while we wrote about implementation questions arou ...Continue Reading