Facebook Had Every Right to Reject Elizabeth Warren's Crappy Ad
Nobody in the media should be supporting an elected official trying to control what speech online platforms allow.
Nobody in the media should be supporting an elected official trying to control what speech online platforms allow.
The Massachusetts Democrat is running for president, but sometimes it seems like she's running for America's super-CEO.
Plus: Reason web-culture coverage past...introducing the millennial presidential candidate...another Seattle "sex trafficking" case based on nonsense
There's no room for errors and online platforms face huge fines, likely encouraging overly broad takedowns.
Backdoors into your texts and private message provide far more information than your phone metadata.
"Google and Facebook should not be a law unto themselves. They should not be able to discriminate against conservatives."
Jordan Shapiro's The New Childhood boldly embraces technological innovation and the interconnected world it's creating.
When absurd ghost stories are passed off as actual journalism
Making low-skill workers more expensive means getting them replaced by automation.
After a harm reduction advocate slammed a hardy but misleading factoid, users who retweeted his message complained that they had been shadowbanned.
Is this just another example of epidemiologists torturing the data until they confess to a spurious but headline-grabbing statistical significance?
But what she did wasn't actually illegal.
A cashless society is a monitored (and potentially controlled) society.
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.
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