# Five and Ten Years Ago in Techdirt
from the that-was-that dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, we learned about how the White House supposedly blocked Walmart from buying TikTok and we asked why amidst all the fear around the site, nobody was equally worried about advertising tech and location data sales. GOP Senators released the latest stupid attempt to reform section 230, the FISA court decided to loosen the restrictions on searching 702 collections, and Ajit Pai’s FCC was ignoring falsely inflated broadband numbers to pat itself on the back and killing rules that would have brought competition to cable boxes. We also took a look at the historic Zeran v. AOL case and what it coudl teach us about more recent cases.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2015, Getty Images did some copyright trolling around the “socially awkward penguin” meme while one of its subsidiaries was going even further with a totally baseless copyright claim. Some anonymous plaintiffs filed a ridiculous copyright suit against YouTube users.
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