New Backpage Ruling Lays Bare Some of the Lies Undergirding FOSTA
The ruling allows a civil suit against Backpage to proceed for one of the case's three plaintiffs.
The ruling allows a civil suit against Backpage to proceed for one of the case's three plaintiffs.
You don't have to worry about the wall when you work in the cloud.
More tech folks call themselves libertarian than anything else. So why are they afraid to speak up at work?
But wouldn't have stopped the Cambridge Analytica incident
Proposal to verify online "bots" is security theater that will make it harder for small online firms to compete with the likes of Facebook.
"They are being watched, and that's a problem."
The vigorous debate over censorship shows how much Iran has changed in recent years.
There's no reason for alarm (yet) over a Facebook data "breach" that benefited a firm with ties to Trump's campaign.
"If voters are making [stupid] decisions," says Senior Editor Jacob Sullum, "that's not the Russians' fault."
"We do not do this lightly, but they have repeatedly posted content designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority groups."
"How bad will climate change be? Not very."
A lawsuit leads to a suggestion that the president engage in a kinder, gentler ignoring.
Rybka has spent the past several years as a protegee of pickup artist and seduction coach Alex Lesley-and picked up a plausible claim to 2016 election dirt along the way.
Device makers would be required to block porn, prostitution hubs, and all content that fails "current standards of decency."
How can a company be expected to arbitrate "fake news" when it can't even tell ancient artifacts from porn?
The bill makes "promoting prostitution" a federal crime, holds websites legally liable for user-posted content, and lets states retroactively prosecute offenders.
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur says cryptocurrencies, virtual reality, and mobile devices are helping individuals escape failed institutions.
Yes, kooky rumors can spread quickly online. In this case, the angry reactions to those rumors may be spreading even faster.
The "information warfare" described in Friday's indictment is not an existential threat to American democracy.
Thirteen individuals and three companies accused of conspiracy against the U.S., wire fraud, and identity theft.
The first comprehensive survey on attitudes about human enhancement finds Americans are open to some crazy new technologies.
New technologies are helping the adult industry adjust to government regulations and give more power to performers.
Mass surveillance is up and running on Britain's roads. Will ours be next?
How do we scale the system for broad use?
But partisan Democrats tried to use a fake news scare to quash it anyway.
Parents aren't neglecting to keep their kids safe from laundry detergent. If anything, teens are overprotected.
Fake news just took a giant step forward. Here's why that's good news.
Any excuse to try to censor the internet
Illinois and Texas think biometric identifiers are a lawsuit waiting to happen.
When government officials suppress critics, they do so only to help themselves.
Critics of free speech use the same old arguments on new technologies.
Boing Boing has filed a motion to dismiss.
Have you heard about "Meltdown" and "Spectre"? Here's what you need to know.
Sharing arrest and accident info on Facebook before cops can tell "official" media is not OK, say Laredo police-and nevermind that one of their own was the source.
As people worry about the net neutrality vote, public officials threaten our rights to free speech.
A related measure would open digital platforms to liability for past crimes committed by users.
An appeals court defends anonymous speech.
An investigation would've taken months, so Larksville Police decided to skip that part.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown argues in The New York Times that we can thank "feminism, but also free markets" for the ongoing purge of predatory men.
Libertarians understood the power of bitcoin early on. Now it's booming. So where are the cryptocurrency tycoons?
Promises that "we're going to see an explosion in the kinds of connectivity and the depth of that connectivity" like never before.
The government is regularly excluded when we use the word "violence."
Our first president might be shocked at the regulatory machinery imposed on distillers.