House Democrats Ready Taxes on E-Cigarettes and Cryptocurrency
Plus: Vaccine mandates are popular, Texas versus free speech, and more...
Plus: Vaccine mandates are popular, Texas versus free speech, and more...
Extremists on the left and the right are much closer to each other than either side would like to admit.
A new podcast gives an autopsy of how a shadowy and charismatic crypto enthusiast was able to lure in so many people.
Pro-lifers and pro-choicers have one thing in common: a passion for snitching
Here’s why Section 230 is so important.
We were warned about the dangerous power of the USA PATRIOT Act. Edward Snowden proved that critics were justified.
Being jerks is just the way some people try to make themselves feel dominant.
The defendants are not on trial for child sex trafficking, yet prosecutor Reggie Jones wouldn't stop talking about it.
Hint: It wasn't Big Tech censorship.
An encryption back door will lead to abusive authoritarian surveillance—even if you present it as a way to stop child porn.
Denizens of the popular online forum protested the spread of COVID misinformation, but the company rightly wouldn't cave to their demands. It still cracked down on 55 subreddits in the end.
Plus: More bad news for free speech online, Fauci on booster shots, and more...
A federal judge says an anti-porn group's suit against Twitter can move forward, in a case that could portend a dangerous expansion of how courts define "sex trafficking."
Powerful companies attempting to get government agencies to suppress competition means consumers could lose out.
"What has gotten materially better in America in, say, the last twenty years?" So! Much!
The government appoints itself the nation's parent.
The agency returns to a research area where it has caused much controversy in the past.
"The pandemic's wrongest man" can likely profit from martyrdom.
Hochul’s office reports that some 55,400 people have died of the coronavirus in New York, much higher than the 43,400 claimed by Cuomo, who left office Monday.
The findings of the newest IPCC report on the future of the planet—called a "code red" for humanity—have been wildly distorted.
A new analysis reportedly showing a huge proportion of TikTok content is racist tells us nothing about the overall prevalence of extremist and bigoted content on the app.
Their study found that Twitter's efforts to police Donald Trump's false election fraud claims were ineffective and may even have backfired.
Breaking encryption technologies always makes us less safe, no matter what the justification.
If so, public health officials have compounded the problem with disingenuous arguments, dubious policy shifts, and misleading statements.
The visionary hacker on how he plans to "solve A.I." and why he thinks this will be a "decade of decentralization."
Researchers have developed a promising and "infinitely recyclable" plastic called polydiketoenamine.
Remember, the "open internet" that regulatory rules purportedly preserve emerged from a world without net neutrality rules.
The law just addresses use of individuals' data by private companies, carving out exceptions for government harvesting of data.
The Pew Research Center found that support for censorship is increasing.
Plus: FTC revives antitrust suit against Facebook, Planned Parenthood pushes back against Montana abortion laws, and more...
Friday A/V Club: Some people are against concentrated media power. Some just want to bend it to their will.
Big tech platforms should encourage debate, not forbid it.
A rational debate requires acknowledging both the strengths and the weaknesses of the scientific evidence.
Plus: Biden won't budge on Afghanistan, the link between cruise ship vaccine passports and free speech, and more...
Whether or not YouTube should have suspended him, the senator overlooked the limitations of the studies he cited and ignored countervailing research.
Nobel laureates properly call activist group's campaign against crop biotechnology a "crime against humanity."
Online censorship by proxy undermines the ordinary process for checking claims and counterclaims.
It is the equivalent of mandating that all new homes come with at least five bathrooms.
Cryptocurrency advocates fight back against major government overreach.
For now, the side that wants less cryptocurrency regulation and taxation lost.
Plus: Congress' gift to Big Tech companies, infrastructure bill costs, and more...
In April, workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted 2-to-1 not to unionize. Now they may be asked to recast their votes.
De Blasio's dataless call to create a class of citizens barred from civic life is an intolerable imposition on New Yorkers' liberties.
Regulating privacy protections would put the public at greater risk than criminals.