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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trump supports a bill that would encourage censorship in the name of free speech.
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.
At his social media summit on Thursday, the president ranted incoherently about the media's "crooked," "dishonest," and "dangerous" speech.
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"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.
Few people who tweeted #NotMyAriel were actually upset about Halle Bailey portraying the mermaid princess.
The court says the "interactive space" created by his account is a public forum, meaning that the president's viewpoint discrimination violates the First Amendment.
Jon Goldsmith was charged with third-degree harassment after calling Deputy Cory Dorsey a "stupid sum bitch" online.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) has proposed a dreadful bill that would give the government control of internet content. He thinks the only reason anyone could be opposed is because they've been bought off.
It’s the ‘90s all over again, and the White House is in no mood to humor tech companies right now.
Countries across the world tackle political misinformation with authoritarian censorship.
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It's Ravelry, and it's not just a "knitting site."
Ron Wyden and Rand Paul team up to stop Border Patrol from snooping in your stuff without good reason.
"Section 230 has nothing to do with neutrality. Nothing. Zip. There is absolutely no weight to that argument," Wyden says. He oughta know. He wrote the damn thing.
Researchers made no effort to link the two.
Stanford Law professor and former Google attorney Daphne Keller says tech giants are facing pressure from governments worldwide to clamp down on content.
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Hawley is selling it as a way to fight tech-company "bias" against Republicans. Don't believe him.
The tech giant's plan to add 20,000 homes will require lots of government permission slips and other investors' money.
I shouted out, who killed online freedom of speech? When after all, it was you and me.
Be afraid as more journalists and politicians start calling for stronger policing of online speech.
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Being a big company is not a crime. What problem are we trying to fix?
Despite scant evidence, everyone wants to believe that social media has a unique ability to control our thoughts and actions.
When Tucker Carlson and Elizabeth Warren agree on trade, regulation, and social media, it's time to rethink a few things.
