This Week In Techdirt History: August 3rd – 9th
Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, we looked at how the DHS was surveilling journalists who published leaked documents and how they obtained the encrypted messages of protestors. The FCC was trying to ...
Harvard Enters the Crypto Market With BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF
SEC disclosure documents revealed that Harvard University had invested over $116.6 million in to IBIT, BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF, in Q2 2025. IBIT was its fifth-largest portfolio investment, surpassin...
Brazilian Senator tables new betting age cap legislation
A Brazilian Senator has proposed new legislation that could increase the minimum betting age and impose a spending cap.
Senator Humberto Costa has commented on multiple occasions that there should be ...