Why Does Elon Musk's Potential Twitter Takeover Scare the Media So Much?
"I think it's very important for there to be an exclusive arena for free speech," says Musk.
"I think it's very important for there to be an exclusive arena for free speech," says Musk.
Harvard Law Professor Guy-Uriel Charles has some useful insights on the problem.
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More than 25 million people remain locked down in Shanghai, with Guangzhou—a city of 18 million—looking primed to follow.
When a college sophomore mocked Young Americans for Freedom for its stance on trans athletes, the conservative group ran to the university to file a complaint.
Reporting that makes Black Lives Matter look bad should not be covered up by social media companies.
Left-leaning outlets and tech giants tried to label them disinformation—until they no longer could.
Protections for open communication require more than the commitment of a single person.
A regulatory filing indicates that Musk is now the company's largest shareholder.
A lawsuit attempts to find out how federal agents are implementing Wickr, a communications service that has an auto-erase function.
The Massachusetts senator also came out in favor of creating a central bank digital currency
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An Arkansas police officer used trumped-up charges to punish a man who criticized him for violating the Constitution.
Out of 27,900 research publications on gun laws, only 123 tested their effects rigorously.
The Joy of Trash author talks about how D.A.R.E., bad TV, Weird Al Yankovic, and 9/11 created a generation of ironic idealists.
Nathan Rabin celebrates The Joy of Trash—and Gen X irony and cynicism—one terrible movie, book, and TV show at a time.
Cryptocurrencies are not the threat to U.S. financial power the elites want to present.
The artist's Rocket Factory project, which lets users build and own their own virtual spacecraft, is changing how we think about reality.
The Rocket Factory NFT project stands at the intersection of crypto, the metaverse, and persistent human longing for the new frontier.
"I am a queer woman, and I was silenced most of my life," writes Lauren Hough, author of Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing.
For years, experts warned that any given hurricane or heat wave cannot be attributed to long-term changes in average temperatures. But it turns out that climatologists and meteorologists sometimes can establish such causal relationships.
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The Founders Fund vice president and Pirate Wires author on supporting heretics as a means of social and economic innovation.
The president's anticipated executive order stopped short of feared regulations but suggests federal unease with uncontrolled development.
No class of governments can be trusted with access to people’s private communications.
Honk Honk HODL raised more than $1 million of bitcoin for the Canadian truckers. About two-thirds of it got to them.
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The service bot will revolutionize warehouses, hospitals, farms, and maybe your home.
There are technical and logistical hurdles, but satellite internet could one day offer an uncensored alternative for people living in war zones and authoritarian countries around the world.
Consumer trends suggest a meatless near future is increasingly unlikely.
The platform punished The Hill's morning show, Rising, for showing a clip of Trump speaking.
The surgeon general's definition of misinformation includes statements that are arguably or verifiably true.
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Crypto's transcendence of national borders is a feature, not a bug.
Professor Jonathan Haidt of NYU and Reason's Robby Soave debate the harms of social media and what the government should do about it.
Professor Jonathan Haidt of NYU debates Reason's Robby Soave.
Protectionist policies are why the U.S. has few physicians and high prices.
There’s no freedom if the state can separate us from our money.
The government controls on the traditional banking system also apply to custodial cryptocurrency services.
"It's completely changed my belief in fairness," says Amy Sterner Nelson.
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Apparently the rule of law doesn’t matter if Justin Trudeau doesn’t like your peaceful protest.
In the new book Free Speech, the Danish activist defends radical self-expression from Socrates to social media.