I Gave My Waitress a 'Libertarian Tip': Taxation Is Theft!
A meme you can try at home.
"We were not living in a digital dystopia in the years leading up to 2015."
This week in 'Privacy for me but not for thee.'
Facebook may be forced to evaluate whether content complies with laws; huge costs if they get it wrong.
A bill related to sex trafficking and Section 230 could have far-reaching consequences for web content, publishers, and apps.
A bridge between Old Media fake news and New Media fake news
Man faces possible prison time for triggering a journalist's seizure.
Coincidentally, a panel at SXSW today is about social media surveillance
New studies blame Instagram and gluttony as causes of food waste.
The idea that Twitter should be run by the federal government is silly. But perhaps the platform isn't best operated as a for-profit public corporation.
Perpetually raging about the world's injustices? You're probably overcompensating.
The company argued that it had a free-speech right to text users unauthorized birthday reminders.
Or does power need to be more dispersed?
WebOps, the U.S. online counter-propaganda program, appears to employ Arabic analysts who barely speak Arabic.
Online outrage may not necessarily mean there's a controversy.
Amid European calls for speech crackdown, social media companies introduce tool for easier deletions.
Social-media platforms have not so much "disrupted" the old media gatekeepers as they have introduced a watered-down version of the same concept.
Maybe Santa should just put everybody on the 'naughty' list and be done with it.
Merkel suggests finding the right kinds of policies that would control that.
How did sites like Breitbart and Red State get included?
Calling for the social media outlet to censor things, even completely made up stories, can end up in bad places.
This false epidemic going viral could drive real suicide attempts among struggling teens.
Trump returns to Twitter to complain about "unfair" protests "incited" by media.
Who, exactly, are these impassioned social-media screeds supposed to sway?
Reforms would also raise minimum-age threshold for Texas strippers from 18 to 21.
Hold law enforcement responsible for snooping, not the tech platforms.
Upset by suggestions made by a celebrity gossip site that the robbery may have been staged.
Why cops get away with criminal behavior, how the Internet is getting boring, and why a Trump presidency isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Chilled speech isn't like chilled vodka; it sends people out the door quicker than you might think. [UPDATE: Reynolds has been un-suspended.]
Here's how to find out how the social-media giant classifies your politics for advertisers. And how to change its obvious mistakes!
Principal site to be shuttered. Ancillary pages to continue.
I turned on C-Span to see a convention. What happened next changed everything.
The tech companies agree to review hate-speech notifications within 24 hours and report on their efforts to the E.U.'s "High Level Group on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and all forms of intolerance by the end of 2016."
Documents show no evidence of political bias, but do contradict the company's claim that topics trend organically.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) wants answers from Mark Zuckerberg and company over allegations of political bias in curated news feed.
Because WhatsApp is so popular, it is a prime target for government data mining-and not just in Brazil.
In the name of cyberbullying and suicide prevention, unintended consequences are not being considered.
Claims rules against campaign coordination do not apply here.
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