Author: Leigh Beadon

from the that-was-that dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the DOJ ended up with a mistrial in its first attempt to prosecute an accused leaker, and also proposed some Section 230 reform ideas that were even dumber than expected, while Match.com was also getting on the anti-230 bandwagon. FBI Director Chris Wray was pitching weakened encryption at a cybersecurity conference, while we called out senators who were wrongly claiming the EARN IT Act wouldn’t be used to undermine encryption. Also, we took a look at how copyright maximalists were trying to rewrite the history of SOPA/PIPA. Ten Years…