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View More Newsfrom the bad-defendants-make-bad-law dept First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritizing growth metrics over user safety. If you’ve been reading Techdirt for any length of time, you know we’ve been critical of the company for years. Mark Zuckerberg deserves zero benefit of the doubt. So when a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million on Tuesday for “enabling child exploitation” on its platforms, and a California jury found Meta and YouTube liable for designing…
Sometimes, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a big case and almost everybody will seem to take notice. Other times, however, the Court will decide a major case and practically nobody will seem to notice, except for a small subset of experts, practitioners, and all-purpose SCOTUS nerds. I think it is probably safe to say that yesterday’s important decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment falls within the latter category. You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason. Get more of Damon’s commentary on constitutional law and American history. Cox v. Sony is one of those cases in…
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Despite an ongoing crimewave, Melbourne was recently named the world’s best city by Time Out magazine, to a mix of celebratory headlines, crowing by the Victorian state government, and general bemusement among everyone else. Sure enough, just two days later, the city reminded the world of its recent sad decline. On 13 March, Vietnamese international student Bao Phuc Cao pleaded guilty to secretly filming a woman under the cubicle walls in the toilets of a shopping centre in the city’s Docklands area. His camera was found to have similarly intrusive images and videos of more than 100 women on it. Their…
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The UK government is advancing plans for a moratorium on political donations made through cryptocurrencies, following an independent review and pressure from multiple high-ranking…
In brief Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton has banned all congressional office staff from trading on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. The move comes…
Bhutan has sold a part of its BTC stash again, and the pace is accelerating.The Royal Government of Bhutan moved 519.707 BTC worth $36.75…
Crypto entrepreneur Nic Carter has urged Bitcoin developers to catch up on quantum resistance or risk losing out to Ethereum, which already has a…
Franklin Templeton is teaming with Ondo Finance to bring tokenized versions of its exchange-traded funds onchain, allowing investors to access them through crypto wallets.The…
In brief Google said its TurboQuant algorithm can cut a major AI memory bottleneck by at least sixfold with no accuracy loss during inference.…
The Solana Foundation is positioning the network as core infrastructure for an emerging “agentic” internet, where AI systems—not humans—initiate and execute economic activity.“AI is…
Crypto industry executives on Wednesday told the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services that existing investor protections and financial surveillance regulations should…
In brief The RBA said tokenization is now a question of how, not if, as it outlined the next steps after its Project Acacia…
The verdicts against social media companies in California and New Mexico over the past two days reveal a disturbing trend: Americans are increasingly willing to view…
Coinbase is walking a tightrope in the negotiation over the Clarity Act, telling the staffs of U.S. senators that the company is not happy…
Stablecoin issuer Circle, the company behind the USDC (USDC) dollar-pegged token, wrongfully froze 16 wallets in connection with an ongoing civil legal case in…