Beyond COVID
More uses for new mRNA technology
Civil liberties advocates warn that the legislation threatens activism, journalism, and satire.
From "stay hungry, stay foolish" to "try everything, take nothing off the table."
Non-fungible tokens for art can seem a lot like Tulipmania. But distinct digital tokens have real use cases for things like online address management.
She said the quiet part out loud.
What about the federal government's own health experts?
Even minor tweaks to the law could shore up Mark Zuckerberg's dominance.
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The former Merry Prankster and Whole Earth Catalog founder talks about psychedelics, computers, bringing back woolly mammoths, and his new documentary.
"We don't need to use a faulty model and apply it to the very real terrorism problem that we have at home," says terrorism expert Max Abrahms.
The whole thing is arguably voided by Section 230.
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Let's restore this giant to America's forests.
And produced with a much lower environmental footprint
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Federal predictions that 20 million Americans would be vaccinated by the end of 2020 were off by an order of magnitude.
All professions deserve the same constitutional protections that speech-heavy industries get.
Is the senator's authoritarian grandstanding the dark future of the GOP?
One bill would require lengthy disclaimers on all online political ads.
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Big outlets get subsidies. The government still gets to pick winners and losers.
A phone in your pocket may as well be a GPS beacon strapped to your ankle.
The DIY firearms movement specifically evolved to put personal armaments beyond the reach of the government.
Senators and state officials are proposing ways to sweep aside nonsensical regulations that place geographic limits on telehealth.
Platform censorship results from centralized design. Cryptocurrency techies are building decentralized alternatives.
Government agencies have repeatedly proven themselves to be abusive.
He was no libertarian, but he absorbed an important lesson about regulating speech.
TikTok may have outlasted the Trump administration, but whether it will find another enemy in Biden is unclear.
Meet the visionaries building a new, un-censorable, peer-to-peer web using the tools of encryption and cryptocurrency.
Online companies might not be as nefarious as you think.
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"Silicon Valley's Safe Space" has misinformed readers.
The first-in-the-nation tax is an expensive and regressive policy that's also possibly unconstitutional.
Tech companies should have the same freedom to choose their customers.
A person you know might be having an online conversation without a transcriptionist and a fact-checker right now, and we have to stop it.
The paid online newsletter service allows writers the opportunity to keep more of the fruits of their labors.
The USDA under the Trump administration streamlined some outdated and scientifically unwarranted regulations of modern biotech crops.
Why didn't Cuomo and De Blasio build a decent, user-friendly website?
Cell-based meat cultivation is on its way.
Regulators haven't kept up with the times when it comes to the changing nature of ventures into space.
Some of them like the stock, but all of them think our financial system is broken.
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"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."
It’s a terrible idea that violates Section 230, but is it actually unconstitutional? Don’t be so sure.
You want more censorship? Go ahead, repeal Section 230.
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