New York City Mayor Eric Adams Wants You to Love Big Brother
A surveillance state is no less tyrannical when the snoops really believe it's for your own protection.
A surveillance state is no less tyrannical when the snoops really believe it's for your own protection.
The famous internet law is headed for the High Court.
In the mid-'70s, people disengaged from political conflict and took up jogging. Maybe it's time to do the same.
After two terms in the Senate as a champion for free markets and limited government, Pennsylvania's Republican senator is heading into retirement.
A slew of recent research suggests parents should relax a bit about screen time.
Social media, streaming, and a new era of digital self-censorship
A review of the new book Tickets For The Ark, by Rebecca Nesbit
Kelly Conlon's bizarre experience gives a glimpse into a future with omnipresent facial recognition systems.
"We can—and should—develop space without government help," says Reason Foundation's Robert W. Poole.
The latest Twitter Files installment shows the FBI paid Twitter millions of dollars to cover the costs of processing the agency's requests. Yikes.
Demands by lawmakers and government officials for locally produced content may lead to online censorship.
Maybe the FBI has something better to do with its time?
Plus: Sen. Mike Lee wants to remove First Amendment protections for porn, IRS doxxes taxpayers, and more...
Senator Warren wants to extend the financial surveillance state cooked up by drug warriors and anti-terrorism fearmongers to cryptocurrencies.
Also, there are battle whales.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live analysis of the internal Twitter documents recently published by Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger.
Antitrust regulators don't seem to understand how the video game industry works.
Plus: Justin Amash and Jane Coaston talk about the Libertarian Party, a fatal flaw in anti-vaping studies, and more...
The most disturbing aspect of the “Twitter Files” is the platform’s cozy relationship with federal officials who demanded suppression of speech they considered dangerous.
The failure to consider the timing of diagnoses makes it impossible to draw causal inferences.
We asked the hot new artificial intelligence system to take four popular political quizzes. Guess what we found...
“I think the Chestnut is an example of an interventionist approach,” says scientist Jared Westbrook. “We might have some capabilities and responsibilities to correct some of the problems that we created.”
Plus: moral panic about department stores, the obvious cause of homelessness, and more...
Plus: The editors briefly celebrate a noteworthy shake-up in the Senate.
Content moderators had "weekly confabs" with law enforcement officials, reports Matt Taibbi.
Most dangerously of all, they're starting to make their own central bank digital currencies.
Instead of debating whether the platform has been flooded by bigotry, Elon Musk should tell the congressman to mind his own business.
It’s one of the most competitive industries in the world, and there’s no good reason to stop Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard.
Twitter employees have indicated that shadow banning—at least by some definitions—is both real and common.
The new book Inventor of the Future prefers to show him as a credit hog.
The lawsuit alleges that TikTok's algorithm funnels inappropriate content directly to teens. That not only defies logic, but it is also antithetical to how a social media platform keeps users.
Photos and information you store on iCloud will be safer from hackers, spies, and the government.
Making it easier for scientists to study marijuana is a far cry from the liberalization that most Americans want.
Fixing federal permitting rules and easing immigration policies would help companies like the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which are interested in building more plants in America.
"You have this looming power over you that essentially can end your career," says Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya.
Including, but not only, supporting us with your hard-earned cash!
Plus: ACLU sides against religious freedom, abortions after Dobbs, and more...
A Democratic member of Congress laments how Twitter handled the New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop.
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Plus: The editors consider a listener question on the involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill.
"The state of New York can't turn bloggers into Big Brother, but it's trying to do just that," said FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner.
A precedent set in the January 6 prosecutions could be dangerous to the public.
The Twitter Files are interesting but contain few true surprises. A mix of incompetence and partisanship got the site in trouble.
The "free speech absolutist" is maintaining some content restrictions while loosening others.
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