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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority Of Venezuelans Sent To Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted Of U.S. Crimes

19 hours ago | techdirt.com | Perla Trevizo |Melissa Sanchez |Gabriel Sandoval |Ronna Rísquez

This story was originally published by ProPublica, along with The Texas Tribune, Alianza Rebelde Investiga, and Cazadores de Fake News. Republished under ProPublica’s CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
Techdirt Podcast Episode 420: The FTC’s Quixotic Social Media Inquiry

3 days ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

We’ve got a cross-post episode for you this week, courtesy of the Tech Policy Podcast by TechFreedom, hosted by Corbin Barthold. Both TechFreedom and The Copia Institute submitted comments on the FTC’s inquiry into social media censorship, Corbin invited Mike and TechFreedom’s Santana Boulton for a discussion all about what’s going on. You can listen to the whole conversation here on this week’s episode. You can also download this episode directly in MP3 format.
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

5 days ago | techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is PB&J with a straightforward reaction to one of the more stunning details about oppressive laws pushing people out of Idaho: TWO-FUCKING-THIRDS of the doctors have left already?!?! In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about the apparent decline in support for free speech among young Americans: Adding on to this I’m willing to bet there’s a slice of people who look at the harm caused by Trump and those like him and think there’s...
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Algorithm Shrugged

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Mike Masnick

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.
Pentagon Leak Investigation: Either Illegal Surveillance Happened Or Everyone’s Lying About Everything

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Mike Masnick

What the fuck is going on at the Pentagon? We’ve talked about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s apparent penchant for exposing attack plans over unsecure, easily hacked messaging apps. But there was also a bit of a scandal in April, when three of his top aides were fired as part of a “leak” investigation.
Rubio Announces Ban On Foreign ‘Censors’ Coming To The US, While Simultaneously Having Students Kidnapped For Their Speech

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Mike Masnick

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this week that he’s barring visas for foreign nationals who “censor Americans,” declaring that “free speech is among the most cherished rights we enjoy as Americans.”This is yet another example of the most censorial administration falsely wrapping itself in the cloak of “free speech warriors” to defend censorship.
Dr. Donald Trump Declares That Autism Doesn’t ‘Occur Naturally’

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Timothy Geigner

As HHS and RFK Jr. continue to bumble their way towards making America less healthy, while saying they’re doing the opposite of course, measles cases are still on the rise. The rate of new cases appears to be slowing somewhat, assuming we think the data coming out of the CDC these days is accurate. Given the staff and budget cuts HHS has implemented, I think that is very much an open question.
Beware The Bundle: Companies Are Banking On Becoming Your Police Department’s Favorite “Public Safety Technology” Vendor

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Beryl Lipton

When your local police department buys one piece of surveillance equipment, you can easily expect that the company that sold it will try to upsell them on additional tools and upgrades. At the end of the day, public safety vendors are tech companies, and their representatives are salespeople using all the tricks from the marketing playbook. But these companies aren’t just after public money—they also want data.
Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court DOGE Can’t Be FOIAed

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Tim Cushing

The destructive force that is DOGE still somehow manages to exist, despite it not being (depending on which claim is made and when) an official federal agency and/or overseen by anyone specifically identifiable as the head of DOGE. Until recently, everyone — including Donald Trump — knew (and said as much in public) that DOGE was both a government agency and headed by Elon Musk.
Conservative Judges To Trump: Your Law Firm Death Warrants Are Unconstitutional Garbage

1 week ago | techdirt.com | Mike Masnick

Federal judges don’t normally punctuate their rulings with multiple exclamation points while invoking the Founding Fathers. But then again, no president before has issued executive orders targeting law firms for the clients they represent and the cases they take. In the last week, two George W.