Democracy in Decline?
If its recent record is any indication, Winston Churchill might have been wrong about democracy.
If its recent record is any indication, Winston Churchill might have been wrong about democracy.
The media are supposed to fight censorship. But to protect their financial interests, some European publishers want to mandate it.
It would be deeply immoral to require parents to select for particular traits, but it is also wrong to deny them the chance to make life easier for their children.
Plus: Rapper 21 Savage released from ICE custody and more details on how Homeland Security scammed immigrant students
Plus: Russian "spy" Maria Butina, Baton Rouge cops in blackface, good news for California sex workers, and a new FDA crackdown.
After Cody Wilson was arrested on a sex crime charge, Heindorff took the helm at Defense Distributed. Now she's leading a massive free speech battle over the right to download a gun.
Plus: Nancy Pelosi on the "Green New Deal"; John Boehner, cannabis lobbyist
The state can't scrub gun manufacturing info from the internet, so they're trying to make distributing it a crime--First Amendment be damned.
How big hotel chains became arms of the surveillance state.
Plus: Author Zadie Smith talking cultural appropriation, and Budweiser versus Big Corn
Hacking tools end up in the hands of some dangerous people. So, apparently, do our government hackers.
Big publishers want new sources of revenue. But trying to force license fees for linking will backfire.
Gun buyers, gay lovers, cannabis customers, and Yelp users are just a few of the groups that benefit from this federal law.
Plus: FDA greenlights new 23andMe test, Kamala Harris gets the Onion treatment, and nobody likes Trump's new shutdown salve.
Covingtongate, Buzzfeed's bomb, Baby Hitler, Kamalamentum…maybe it's time to pull the plug.
Plus: Kamala Harris officially enters the 2020 race and Google News may leave the E.U.
Online black markets shift faster than police can respond
Paying customers may be the next targets for social media "deplatforming."
"We shouldn't have to think about self-censoring what we say online."
"Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica" goes intergalactic?
The result is consistent with lots of other evidence of widespread ignorance and bias influencing public opinion on political and scientific issues.
Title of the Nature Human Behavior article cited above sadly says it all.
It's "important to be clear about how rare this behavior is on social platforms," researchers say.
Revving up pepper hotness in tomatoes using CRISPR genome-editing
Author and sex worker Maggie McNeill was suspended from Twitter Tuesday for a hyperbolic comment about burning the White House down.
Attempts to control how artificial intelligence develops and is used could backfire.
On Monday, a federal appeals court considered Grindr's guilt in a case involving app-based impersonators.
Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation insist that law violates the First Amendment, Commerce Clause, and Supremacy Clause.
Malthusian predictions of global famines keep receding.
Food security is not the problem, but nutrition security could be.
Social media platforms have every right to do whatever the hell they want, but they shouldn't really do much speech policing at all.
Michael Shermer, Ron Bailey, and Jim Epstein talk poverty-eradication, genomics, and blockchain at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration
A Barberton judge just sentenced a woman to jail, house arrest, and a year without social media for repeating a rumor about a pellet gun at school.
J.D. Tuccille, Lisa Snell, and Rob Long discuss the democratization of everything at Reason's 50th anniversary celebration.
Companies should be applauded, not criticized, for working to identify the genetic roots of diseases that afflict humanity.
Reason editors' best and worst moments of 2018, including the president's welcome and long-overdue drawdown from Afghanistan
New film The Creepy Line argues that tech giants sometimes silence conservatives and try to steer America left.
The tech giant actually stands to gain by legally hamstringing competition with tough regulations.
One year after Net Neutrality, connection speed is up, the discrimination critics feared is non-existent, and the debate about Internet regulation is abysmal.
The Cypherpunk co-founder was a major influence on both bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Equal Justice Society, and others are challenging the practice in court.
Economists Kenneth Rogoff and Lawrence H. White face off over what the impact would be of a ban on cryptocurrency and phaseout of the $100 bill.
Yesterday's hearings didn't clarify much except that Washington is in a mood to regulate tech giants.