This Week In Techdirt History: August 16th

This Week In Techdirt History: August 16th – 22nd from the so-it-was dept This Week in 2016 - Snowden Docs Show NSA, New Zealand Spied On Pro-Democracy Activists - Which Crazy Copyright Holder Took Down Katie Ledecky/Carlos Santana ‘Smooth’ Mashup First? - Billionaire Backer Of Palantir & Facebook Insists He’s Bankrupting Journalists To Protect Your Privacy - Donald Trump Says He’ll Turn Off The Internet For Terrorists - Twitter Suspends Hundreds Of Thousands Of Terrorist Accounts, Gives Everyone Its ‘Quality Filter’ - Recording Industry Whines That It’s Too Costly To Keep Copyright Terms At Life Plus 50, Instead Of Life Plus 70 This Week in 2011 - Could The Internet & Television Be Making Everyone Smarter? - Dear Musicians: The RIAA Is About To Totally Screw You Over (Again!) - Waffle House Says Rap Song Called Waffle House Violates Its Trademark - Dear MPAA: Stomp Your Feet And Repeat It As Many Times As You Want, But Infringement Is Not Theft - MPAA Calls MPAA Intellectually Dishonest For Claiming That Infringement Is Inevitable - As Expected, Backpage Is Not Liable For Prostitution Ads This Week in 2006 - Oh Look, The More Hollywood Attacks, The Further Underground File Sharing Goes - Cabbies Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Navigation Systems - Captain Copyright Gets A Rewrite? - Ignoring Obsolete Analog Technology Is Now Considered Circumventing Copy Protection? - There Ought To Be A Law… Any Law… To Protect The Children - Where’s The Checkbox For ‘New FBI Computer System Is So Bad I Plan To Go On A Crime Spree’?