Ghosts of Christmas Past: Five and Ten Years Ago

Five Years Ago

This week in 2020, Congress sold out to Hollywood yet again by sneaking teh CASE Act and a felony streaming bill into the funding omnibus with the former introducing absolutely insane damages especially when compared to COVID stimulus money. Meanwhile, we looked at the issues with a new COVID bill that included billions to shore up broadband access. Trump finaly went through with his threat to veto the NDAA and Senator Tillis unveiled a massive plan to reshape the internet even more to Hollywood’s liking. Plus, Ron wyden and Chris Cox felt it was time to yet again dispel some misconceptions about Section 230.

Ten Years Ago

This week in 2015, we hoped (though not that much) that the government’s panic over the Juniper backdoor would make them realize the problems with backdoors while Senator Cotton was slamming Tim Cook for protecting user privacy with encryption with the Manhattan District Attorney still demonstrating ignorance about encryption and demanding legislation to eliminate it.