Articles by hn_acker
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Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning (seekingalpha.com)

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The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that tells the reality of America today (lawdork.com)

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All Laws Are Local (pluralistic.net)

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"You're Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer" (propublica.org)

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The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong (techdirt.com)

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Smart AI Policy Means Examing Its Real Harms and Benefits (eff.org)

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Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End of the World" (pluralistic.net)

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The Other Turing Test (heatherburns.tech)

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Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box" (pluralistic.net)

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Epstein Files Release Exposes Names of at Least 43 Victims, WSJ Review Finds (wsj.com)

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The Dangerous Drift to Redefine Protest as Terrorism (lawfaremedia.org)

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Hey Gavin Newsom! Investigating TikTok's Moderation Is Unconstitutional (techdirt.com)

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Low-Energy Fridays: How do regulators value life? (rstreet.org)

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Enshittification Ensures Streaming Prices Soar Faster Than Other Consumer Goods (techdirt.com)

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Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity (pluralistic.net)

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A Volcanic Opinion in the Fifth Circuit Destabilizes International Copyright Law (ericgoldman.org)

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Grok, 'Censorship,' & the Collapse of Accountability (lawfaremedia.org)

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I'm getting the HPV vaccine at 24. That's a problem (statnews.com)

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This Teen Sought Vaccine Court. His Former Lawyer Now Advises on Its Overhaul (kffhealthnews.org)

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I Hope You Get to Live Your Life as a Human Being (transgamerthoughts.com)

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Disenshittification Nation (pluralistic.net)

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Automaker Lobbyists Undermine Maine's Effort to Pass 'Right to Repair' Reforms (techdirt.com)

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Bonus 203: Correcting the Record in the Social Security/DOGE Case (stevevladeck.com)

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Modernizing Virginia's Court Notification System to Reduce Failures to Appear (rstreet.org)

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Principles for Human-Rights Centred Application of the DSA: A Global Perspective (eff.org)

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Some Unfortunate Delays in Our Struggle for Copyleft Justice (sfconservancy.org)

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The Darnella test of social media and smartphone regulation (heatherburns.tech)

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Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, America (heatherburns.tech)

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ATProto: The Enshittification Killswitch That Enables Resonant Computing (techdirt.com)

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The Ninth Circuit Wrecked Internet Jurisdiction Law... and for What? (ericgoldman.org)

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Relitigating hiQ Labs, Scraping Through the Lens of DMCA 1201 Anti-Circumvention (ericgoldman.org)

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Judge order bars feds from altering or destroying evidence in Pretti shooting (mprnews.org)

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Misinformation Studies Meets the Raw Milk Renaissance (lawfaremedia.org)

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You Can't Block Space Internet (lawfaremedia.org)

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The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit (pluralistic.net)

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Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off (eff.org)

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Utah Continues to Ban More Books, Even as It Racks Up More Lawsuits (techdirt.com)

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Arkansas inmates restricted from receiving physical books, other media directly (arkansasadvocate.com)

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Copyright Kills Competition (eff.org)

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Rand Paul Only Wants Google to Be Arbiter of Truth When the Videos Are About Him (techdirt.com)

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Google's AI Pricing Plan (pluralistic.net)

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Statutory Damages: The Fuel of Copyright-Based Censorship (eff.org)

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AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" (pluralistic.net)

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) (upenn.edu)

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Salesforce Still Can't Avoid Tertiary Liability Fosta Claims–GG vs. Salesforce (ericgoldman.org)

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Congress wants to hand your parenting to big tech (eff.org)

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Baton Rouge Acquires a Straight-Up Military Surveillance Drone (eff.org)

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Report Says AI That Hallucinated a Cop into a Frog Is Making Utah 'Safer' (techdirt.com)

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US Threatens UK over Grok Investigation Because Only the US Can Ban Foreign Apps (techdirt.com)

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What Does It Mean to Make a Voice Call in a Post-Telephone World?–Howard vs. RNC (ericgoldman.org)

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So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now? (eff.org)

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It's Not Normal (pluralistic.net)

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Sorry, Eh (pluralistic.net)

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When Misinformation Means the Difference Between Life and Death (lawfaremedia.org)

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Rep. Luna Threatens Journalist with Prison for Posting Public University Bio (techdirt.com)

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AT&T Blocks T-Mobile's Data Portability Efforts (ericgoldman.org)

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Bunnie's Piggyback Hack (pluralistic.net)

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Copyright Takedown Notices Don't Require Services to Find Other Identical Copies (ericgoldman.org)

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"We're Too Close to the Debris" (propublica.org)

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DMCA 512(C) Safe Harbor Applies to Embedding–Harrington vs. Pinterest (ericgoldman.org)

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Writing vs. AI (pluralistic.net)

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A World Without People (pluralistic.net)

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2025 Internet Law Year-in-Review (ericgoldman.org)

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The Key Challenges of Governing Commercial Spyware (lawfaremedia.org)

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A Roundup of Section 230 Decisions (ericgoldman.org)

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Too Many Courts Are Letting States Take Wrecking Balls to the Internet (Roundup) (ericgoldman.org)

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Our Reporters Reaching Out for Comment Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation (propublica.org)

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UK police forces lobbied to use biased facial recognition technology (theguardian.com)

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Regulating Algorithmic Content Distribution and Moderation by Online Platforms (rstreet.org)

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Google Built Its Empire Scraping the Web. Now It's Suing a Scraper of Google (techdirt.com)

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The Joyful Chaos of the Early Web: A Conversation with Creator Audrey Witters (archive.org)

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The Legal Puzzles of Designating Fentanyl a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' (lawfaremedia.org)

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Court Rejects Attempts to Manufacture Common Law Notice-and-Takedown Duties (ericgoldman.org)

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Courts Enjoin Internet Censorship Laws in Louisana and Arkansas (ericgoldman.org)

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AI Police Reports: Year in Review (eff.org)

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The Military's Social Media Purge (lawfaremedia.org)

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The FDA Often Doesn't Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did (propublica.org)

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OnlyFans Defeats "Chatter Scam" Claim–N.Z. vs. Fenix (ericgoldman.org)

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Post-Mortem of a Misguided Logo Trademark Lawsuit–LegalForce vs. Internet Brands (ericgoldman.org)

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Wisconsin town will use accessible voting machines after federal lawsuit (votebeat.org)

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Online Gaming's Final Boss: The Copyright Bully (eff.org)

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Senators Want to Hold Open Internet Hostage, Demand Meta Write the Ransom Note (techdirt.com)

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Fair Use Is a Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences (eff.org)

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DWeb in 2025: Looking Back at a Year of Decentralization (archive.org)

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Fun Library Kiosk and Novel Web-Based Display of Web Pages (archive.org)

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When the Internet Grew Up – and Locked Out Its Kids (techdirt.com)

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U.S. Mental Health Ratings Continue to Worsen (gallup.com)

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Registered voters flagged as "potential noncitizens" proved citizenship (votebeat.org)

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Are Robots.txt Instructions Legally Binding?–Ziff Davis vs. OpenAI (ericgoldman.org)

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Rx Inspector: Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made (propublica.org)

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Deliberate Internet Shutdowns (schneier.com)

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In Praise of E. H. Shepard's Illustrations (archive.org)

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America's collapsing consumption is the disenshittification opportunity (pluralistic.net)

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Covid Jawboning Lawsuit Dismissed (For Now)–Dressen vs. Flaherty (ericgoldman.org)

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Few Farms Participate in a Program That Could Prevent Abuse of Farmworkers (propublica.org)

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The European Union Changes Course on Digital Legislation (lawfaremedia.org)

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Australia's social media ban was pushed by ad agency focused on gambling ads (techdirt.com)

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Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI (schneier.com)

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Texas universities deploy AI tools to review how courses discuss race and gender (texastribune.org)

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Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (pluralistic.net)