This Week In Techdirt History: June 9th – 15th

Five Years Ago

This week in 2019, we looked at the two-sided political attacks on Section 230, while an appeals court issued a strong but easily-misrepresented Section 230 ruling, and the law was also used to begin smackin down a lawsuit from Craig Brittain. A prominent copyright troll ran away when finally challenged, the NY Times was demanding money from Google, and the news was spreading that Amazon Ring cameras are cops. We also wrote yet again about the mismatch in privacy scrutiny given to tech companies and telcos.

Ten Years Ago

This week in 2014, the EFF published a list of the top five lies being spread by NSA defenders, while James Clapper admitted something everyone else had been saying for months, and a former NSA lawyer was trying to disappear Techdirt's posts about him via the right to be forgotten. Copyright troll Malibu Media was slinging around some wild accusations, and we took a look at the proliferation of bogus broadband astroturf organizations.

Fifteen Years Ago

This week in 2009, fashion designers were starting to realize that fashion copyright would seriously harm their business. The Canadian patent office rejected software and business model patents, video game companies were still complaining about used game sales, and there was a trademark fight over chocolate bunnies. Texas was taking an early swing at terrible internet laws, the recording industry was taking the wrong message from a study about file sharers, and a new website from NetChoice set out to track all the bad proposed internet legislation in America.