Are These Effin' Birds From Canada Fucking With American Democracy?
Aaron Reynolds, the creator of "Swear Trek" and "Effin' Birds," talks about living and dying by Instagram's algorithms.
Aaron Reynolds, the creator of "Swear Trek" and "Effin' Birds," talks about living and dying by Instagram's algorithms.
Time to add a hat and sunglasses!
The outgoing FCC chairman discusses 'light-touch' regulation and the future of free speech on the internet.
Especially if the COVID-19 inoculations are deployed speedily and accepted widely.
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At the end of August, the FAA finally gave Amazon approval for its Prime Air drone delivery fleet.
It's hard to take seriously complaints that there are no alternatives to Facebook when they're made on Twitter.
But what one side likes, the other side hates. There's no way Twitter and Facebook can appease them both.
The state's electricity grid operators warned in 2019 that power shortages might become increasingly common when heat waves hit in the coming years.
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And there looks to be more good vaccine news coming.
What is the platform accomplishing by calling further attention to the president's wild claims of voting fraud?
The most expensive ballot initiative campaign in Massachusetts history ended with a resounding victory for property rights.
It wasn’t a plot to undermine democracy. It wasn’t a Russian intelligence operation. It was a low-tech scam.
"I obviously identify with and resonate with and connect with my libertarian brothers and sisters on so many levels," says the controversial former child actor.
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey faced the music. The tune is becoming familiar.
The National Security Agency arranged for security systems to be secretly compromised. Then the Chinese government allegedly found its way in.
The final installment in a four-part documentary series "Cypherpunks Write Code"
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The Hunter Biden story has exposed the media's selective skepticism.
Privacy is a right, not a “high risk” and “possibly criminal” activity
The government is going after Google not to stop consumer harm but to level the business playing field.
Part three in Reason's documentary series, "Cypherpunks Write Code," tells the story of the U.S. government's long battle to keep strong cryptography out of the hands of its citizens
Government claims Google uses its power to force users and advertisers on board. Google says that its popularity is not anticompetitive.
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Delivering rapid at-home testing kits to 330 million Americans is "something we can actually do at warp speed."
The Reason Roundtable argues over what to do when Twitter prematurely suppresses oppo-dump journalism unfavorable to Democrats, and when politicians respond with retaliatory regulation.
We can increasingly live where we please while working jobs of our choice. What we do with that bonanza is up to us.
The House Intelligence Committee is mulling ways to stop an "infodemic." Is this really a task we want the government to tackle?
The 1987 debate that foreshadowed the divide in today's cryptocurrency community
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Part two of a four-part series on the history of the cypherpunk movement
Anti-biotech activists cite the precautionary principle to maintain chestnut tree-free forests.
Enforcement is supposed to be about protecting "consumer welfare." Overturning that goal would be bad for all of us.
The Great Barrington Declaration asks how much collateral damage is too much.
Inspired by Germany's notorious hate-speech law, more countries seek to impose steep penalties on platforms that don't comply with their censorship whims.
Republicans have seized on the dubious claims of a psychologist who thinks Big Tech is shifting millions of votes to the left.
The costly fight over a “right to repair” proposal has led to a lot of cybersecurity fearmongering.
Watch part one of a four-part documentary series about the cypherpunk movement of the 1990s.
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Bipartisanship isn't dead, sadly.
The author of the new book Transcend updates Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs for an era of pandemics, racial strife, and extreme polarization.
Playing outside is one of the safest group activities kids can do, yet Gavin Newsom and other pols are extending the pandemic misery indefinitely.
A new DOJ proposal aims to bring the internet communications law in line with Trump's personal interpretation of it.
The fight to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals a long-degraded political culture.
There’s nothing good about censoring communication platforms citizens want to use.