It's fantastic if you just want a lurid source that will get your blood boiling while confirming your biases. If you actually want to learn things about public policy, though, Techdirt will harm you.

They're in business to generate rageviews, not to inform.

Techdirt is like the ZeroHedge of Internet policy news.

A lot of tech policy is worthy of getting your blood boiling.

Yes, and Techdirt exploits that to get you to click on their site, even though they're almost always wrong.

Well, you are most certaintly entitled to that opinion.