So... the actual story reported here is that the administration set up a dedicated task force to document EU censorship and THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY. Not that you'd know that from the headline. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

EFF and free-speech allies have called our FCC Chair Carr’s threats against broadcasters as unconstitutional. We urge him to withdraw them.

More on the strange "Indonesian online casinos" takedown notices. lumendatabase.org/blog_entries...

Meta's statement about eliminating encryption in Instagram DMs was disingenuous and misleading. Here are the real reasons it's going away www.platformer.news/instagram-en...

Hello, Lumen user community. We are aware of the bug that has led to the search index lagging the live notices by a few weeks ( thanks to those users who wrote in to alert us) We are working on fixing it, and the index should be up to date soon.

A new blog post up! Check out Part 1 of "A Strange Group of Emails to Lumen and What They Might Mean" lumendatabase.org/blog_entries...

It's so rare that you actually get any kind of a win against entities that use the DMCA to silence lawful uses. So grateful that @philsalv.bsky.social and @frankcifaldi.bsky.social were willing to see this one through!

bsky.app/profile/edne... "a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. "

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...?

" A spokesperson for Radiohead said it “goes without saying it was without the band’s permission” and passed along their statement, which reads: 'We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. '" variety.com/2026/music/n...

what a line-up of participants!

WOW. A researcher at the @ivir-uva.bsky.social DSA conference told me that X claims every single item of content it moderated under the DSA was *illegal* and not just a TOS violation. The Database confirms it. transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu/statement?s=...

Please note that further down the thread, Dahl herself confirms that she asked 404 Media to republish the information in their article, in order to retain at least some control over the narrative.

A trillion webpages, saved. 🌐 To mark the milestone, Internet Archive x @GrayArea.Org commissioned new net.art created from within the Archive’s vast collections. Ex. “alive internet theory” by @spencerchang.me Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/internet-arc... 🧵 1️⃣/3️⃣ #Wayback1T

DOI's are a great example of the critical infrastructure that librarians quietly enable.

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠ ⁠ Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

Check out Lumen's 2025 in data! Researchers, site traffic and more. lumendatabase.org/blog_entries...

Lumen has some exciting news! We're now part of the Harvard Law School Library! lumendatabase.org/blog_entries...

AOC being personable and friendly to other Dems isn't discussed as an asset the way for example Biden's senate relationships was but being pleasant and charming tends to get you places!