The FBI is looking for companies to comb through social media posts and pinpoint possible threats ahead of time. Think of it like a meme-illiterate Facebook-stalking precog from Minority Report.
You can literally wear your principles on your sleeve while baffling facial recognition technology.
It’s time for SCOTUS to revisit the "border search exception" to the Fourth Amendment.
Trying to get the government involved in what sort of videos online platforms promote or hide is going to end badly.
The nation's leading scholar of mass shootings explains how media coverage of horrific events such as El Paso and Dayton stoke unwarranted fear and anxiety.
The sexiest discoveries are often the ones not found in the actual study.
The constitutional amendment they support, like the president’s plan to regulate social media, trusts the government to moderate our political debate.
Quiet fishing expeditions are being used to sort through potential suspects.
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It would essentially be a Fairness Doctrine for the internet.
Only three states require police to obtain a warrant before requesting private user data from companies.
Thanks to the trade war, Americans are already importing fewer laptops, speakers, and other electronic items—and paying a higher price for the items they do buy. A bigger hit is coming.
While expressing concern for free speech and privacy, lawmakers are seriously threatening both.
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Plus: the budget deal, GOP retirements, and the latest front in the trade war.
Companies should forced neither to help spread offensive speech nor to suppress it.
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The senator leading an anti-tech crusade in Congress is being willfully ignorant of all the ways technology has improved humanity in recent decades.
In order to fight crime, Americans must...make their data more susceptible to hacking?
The Missouri senator thinks wasting time on Instagram is a problem so big that only the federal government can solve it.
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From Josh Hawley to Kamala Harris, online free speech is under attack.
The presidential hopeful alleges the company violated her First Amendment rights when it suspended her campaign advertising site for 6 hours.
Both Democrats and Republicans are cheerleading for government action against Facebook, Google, Amazon, and the rest, but Americans should be skeptical.
The difference between two identical genes—one edited and the other a natural mutation—is entirely metaphysical.
A trivial encounter between two irate grocery shoppers becomes a viral story, then a hate hoax.
Many innovations' benefits aren't captured by the GDP.
Right to Repair has become a national policy issue.
People are happier, healthier, and wealthier because freer markets have opened the floodgates of innovation, research, and development.
A study suggesting that e-cigarettes double the risk of a heart attack ignored crucial information on timing.
The tax was actually on much more than initial public offerings of stocks, and likely would have driven the next generation of startups to locate somewhere else.
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez will never get to interrogate Satoshi Nakamoto.
His case reminds us that the misuse of government power is still the biggest threat to liberty.
The pundit made the claim at a Senate hearing on allegations of tech censorship against conservatives.
This historian and online-education entrepreneur says runaway slaves, ladies of the evening, bootleggers, and other dropouts and discontents made America free.
Trump supports a bill that would encourage censorship in the name of free speech.
If there’s one thing government types can agree on, it’s that nobody should be allowed to buy and sell stuff without permission.
One of the best ways to succeed long-term in capitalism is by treating customers well rather than ripping them off. That's something you won't hear Democrats or Republicans admit these days.
From insulin to prosthetics, technology makes this the best moment yet to be living with a disability.
A scientific consensus has emerged that trigger warnings just don't work—and student activists should stop demanding them.
At his social media summit on Thursday, the president ranted incoherently about the media's "crooked," "dishonest," and "dangerous" speech.
Plus: Air-launched rockets, the GOP becomes the party of Trump, and Pelosi feuds with AOC.
"The cost of not doing this is the harm done to other Googlers every time they encounter these terms," says the company's diversity and inclusion team.
The president invited Republican lawmakers as well as social media stars who claim that tech giants are suppressing free speech.
The New York congresswoman's use of Twitter seems similar to the president's in constitutionally relevant ways.
Jason Feifer's podcast explores "why we resist new things" and tells great stories about panics over the novel, the elevator, the waltz, margarine, and more.
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