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Since Elon Musk is trying to ban any mention of Mastodon on Twitter, I thought I'd just make it as easy as possible to find me on the fo...

Twitter is still a young medium, and it's interesting to see yet more uses being found for it. Here's a rather dubious one from S...

Hashtags like #techdirt are not only an indispensable part of Twitter, but are also increasingly to be found elsewhere as a handy way of...

As we've noted before, the online community is kept on a pretty tight leash in China, with information deemed subversive or just emba...

A month ago, we wrote about how the UK's infamous " Snooper's Charter " had been scuppered by Nick Clegg, the UK's ...

Techdirt has written a few times about Turkey's difficult relationship with new technology. Unfortunately, it looks like that now...

If you were online late last night - and especially if you were on Twitter - you may have noted an enormous wave of pain and anger sweepi...

Techdirt has been tracking for some time the worrying moves in India that have involved censoring the Twitter accounts of journalists and...

Despite increasing competition around the world, China remains the leader when it comes to finding ways to censor the online world. A fe...

Techdirt wrote about how the UK's Twitter Joke conviction dragged its slow way through the various appeals before finally being resol...

In the wake of the Twitter joke trial fiasco, which saw Paul Chambers dragged through the courts for two years before being acquitted , t...

One of the favorite tropes of the anti-piracy crowd is that all this unauthorized sharing is killing culture, pauperizing artists and gen...

Nicolas Sarkozy, who hopes to be re-elected as French President this year, seems to have little love for the Internet. At best, he regard...

Twitter has taken quite a lot of heat for putting in place the capability to block tweets on a geographical basis. This begins to look ...

Well, this one's bizarre. Back in March 2010 we wrote about the UK Usenet aggregator Newzbin being found liable for the copyright i...

The unprecedented public outpouring of grief in the technical community at the death of Steve Jobs seems to go well beyond the fact that ...

I joined Twitter on 1st January 2010 as an experiment. I wanted to see whether this trendy thing had any real merit, or was simply the late...

Almost without meaning to, I conducted a small experiment today. Over on Twitter, Brenda Wallace asked me a very good question: do you know...

Even though it is generally accepted that open source is used widely throughout the business world, it doesn't hurt having a few high-pr...

By now, you will have read all about the #twitterjoketrial . But you may not have come across this story : On 17 of October, Wang Yi retwee...