techdirt makes a hard turn, and it's great (20250324)

techdirt gets explicit

no, not like that. they’re being very explicit about the need to have reporting about the dismantling of the institutions we’re seeing. as opposed to regurgitating the partly line.

• Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) | Techdirt

  When the very institutions that made American innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore. It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist.

  We’ve always covered the intersection of technology, innovation, and policy (27+ years and counting). Sometimes that meant writing about patents or copyright, sometimes about content moderation, sometimes about privacy. But what happens when the fundamental systems that make all of those conversations possible start breaking down? When the people dismantling those systems aren’t even pretending to replace them with something better

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  not encouraged to see klobuchar wasting time on this. she doesn’t seem to interested in learning or listening.