Liz Wolfe

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Social Media

Appeals Court Rules Social Media Companies Not Liable for Pulse Nightclub Shooter's Radicalization

"The plaintiffs failed to make out a plausible claim that the Pulse massacre was an act of 'international terrorism' as that term is defined in the ATA."

Liz Wolfe | 10.25.2021 10:05 AM

Blockchain

How the Government Seized a Rare Wu-Tang Clan Album (and a DAO Bought It Back)

Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, formerly owned by Martin Shkreli, was auctioned off by the government and bought by the blockchain/art enthusiasts at PleasrDAO.

Liz Wolfe | 10.22.2021 5:00 PM

Free Speech

Netflix CEO Apologizes for Having Principles

When employees tried their hand at a shakedown, CEO Ted Sarandos buckled a bit under the pressure.

Liz Wolfe | 10.20.2021 5:06 PM

Free Speech

Netflix Staff Apparently Unaware That Dave Chappelle's Comedy Special Would Include Jokes

No one is safe from Chappelle's jokes—but also, everyone is safe from Chappelle's jokes.

Liz Wolfe | 10.14.2021 12:10 PM

Campus Free Speech

Don't Use the Term 'Trap House' in Your Party Invite at Yale Law School

Administrators attempted to force an apology out of a second-year law student whose Federalist Society affiliations and use of the term "trap house" were "triggering" to his peers.

Liz Wolfe | 10.13.2021 4:10 PM

Vaccine mandates

New York Shouldn't Treat the Unvaccinated as Second-Class Citizens

De Blasio should honor expectations of medical privacy, not threaten government retribution for those who make choices he dislikes.

Liz Wolfe | 10.11.2021 6:00 AM

Finance

Banks and Trade Groups Reject Saule Omarova, Biden's New Currency Comptroller Pick

Omarova's starry-eyed view of the Soviet Union and interest in giving far more power to the Federal Reserve should not inspire confidence.

Liz Wolfe | 10.7.2021 2:22 PM

Facebook

AOC Uses Facebook Outage To Make the (Unrelated) Case for Antitrust

"Maybe one billionaire with a penchant for destroying democracies shouldn’t be allowed to own so much of the internet," says the representative from New York.

Liz Wolfe | 10.5.2021 1:00 PM

Cryptocurrencies

China Expands Crypto Crackdown, Targeting Mining and Overseas Platforms

Though domestic crypto transactions were banned back in 2017, today's move signals that Chinese authorities are making good on their threats from earlier this year.

Liz Wolfe | 9.24.2021 3:30 PM

Bureaucracy

21 Federal Agencies Manage 200 Different Diet-Related Programs, Leading to Overlap and Chaos

"There really is no overarching federal strategy to guide the government’s efforts to improve Americans’ diets," says a new government report, which indicates that overlap in initiatives is creating waste.

Liz Wolfe | 9.23.2021 12:50 PM

Government mandates

San Francisco Mayor London Breed Is Right: It's Crazy To Force Vaccinated Patrons To Mask Inside Bars!

While justifying why she defied her own indoor mask mandate, San Francisco's mayor unintentionally hit the nail on the head.

Liz Wolfe | 9.20.2021 4:20 PM

Vaccines

Nicki Minaj's Vaccine Hesitancy Tweets Show Value of Persuasion Over Federal Mandates

Persuading vaccine objectors is a much better approach than imposing coercive top-down mandates.

Liz Wolfe | 9.16.2021 2:36 PM

Facebook

The New York Times Is Wrong About the 'Myth of Big Tech Competence'

Still, Facebook should not have allowed its VIPs to flout the rules it claimed applied to everyone.

Liz Wolfe | 9.16.2021 10:25 AM

Coronavirus

Elizabeth Warren Demands That Amazon Crack Down on COVID Misinformation

Amazon's customers are apparently unable to judge the veracity of COVID-related information for themselves.

Liz Wolfe | 9.14.2021 10:55 AM

Abortion

GoDaddy Shuts Down Web Hosting for Pro-Life Organization's Abortion Whistleblowing Site

Pro-lifers and pro-choicers have one thing in common: a passion for snitching

Liz Wolfe | 9.9.2021 4:30 PM

Photo

Photo: Hong Kong

In June, police stormed the offices of Apple Daily, one of the last pro-democracy newspapers and an unapologetic defender of Hong Kong's autonomy.

Liz Wolfe | 9.6.2021 6:00 AM

Social Media

Reddit's Messy Fight Over COVID Misinformation

Denizens of the popular online forum protested the spread of COVID misinformation, but the company rightly wouldn't cave to their demands. It still cracked down on 55 subreddits in the end.

Liz Wolfe | 9.3.2021 11:55 AM

Elon Musk

Amazon Pressures FCC To Deny SpaceX's Satellite Internet Plan

Powerful companies attempting to get government agencies to suppress competition means consumers could lose out.

Liz Wolfe | 9.1.2021 5:00 PM

China

Chinese Regulators Tell Kids They Can't Play More Than 3 Hours of Video Games a Week

The government appoints itself the nation's parent.

Liz Wolfe | 8.30.2021 5:10 PM

Coronavirus

'Do I Look Like the COVID Police?'

Business owners in the Bronx respond to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine passport mandate.

Liz Wolfe | 8.30.2021 10:15 AM

Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo Replacement Kathy Hochul Says New York's Real COVID Death Toll Is 12,000 Higher Than Cuomo Claimed

Hochul’s office reports that some 55,400 people have died of the coronavirus in New York, much higher than the 43,400 claimed by Cuomo, who left office Monday.

Liz Wolfe | 8.26.2021 10:00 AM

CDC

Ultra-Cautious CDC Wants You To Cook Your Prosciutto and Salami

The ultra-risk averse agency continues to misunderstand how people actually behave in the wild.

Liz Wolfe | 8.25.2021 11:25 AM

China

China's New Data Privacy Law Doesn't Protect People Against the Biggest Threat: The Government

The law just addresses use of individuals' data by private companies, carving out exceptions for government harvesting of data.

Liz Wolfe | 8.20.2021 4:35 PM

New York City

When De Blasio's Vaccination Passport Plan Went Into Effect Yesterday, One-Quarter of Adult New Yorkers Were Barred From Going Out

Going out in Manhattan the first night patrons were required to prove their vaccination status

Liz Wolfe | 8.18.2021 5:05 PM

Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo Resigns as New York Governor at Long Last

After allegedly sexually harassing 11 women and issuing nursing home COVID guidance that led to massive outbreaks and huge death tolls, Cuomo is out.

Liz Wolfe | 8.10.2021 1:39 PM

Labor Unions

NLRB Recommends Amazon Warehouse Workers Vote Again on Whether To Unionize

In April, workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted 2-to-1 not to unionize. Now they may be asked to recast their votes.

Liz Wolfe | 8.5.2021 3:35 PM

Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo Sexually Harassed 11 Women, Retaliated Against 1 Female Employee, According to A.G. Report

"There should be a zero tolerance policy when it comes to sexual harassment," Cuomo tweeted in 2013.

Liz Wolfe | 8.3.2021 3:26 PM

CDC

Do We Need the CDC?

Plus, why are there cryptocurrency rules in the new infrastructure bill?

Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Liz Wolfe, and Stephanie Slade | 8.2.2021 4:05 PM

China

China's Big Tech Crackdown Shouldn't Be Cheered by Antitrust Fans in the West

An onslaught of antitrust and data-security crackdowns have threatened the country's biggest ride-sharing platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges, and messaging services.

Liz Wolfe | 7.30.2021 1:00 PM

wealth tax

Elizabeth Warren Says People Are Struggling and Jeff Bezos Hasn't Pitched In Enough

Bezos pitched in by creating an online marketplace of cheap consumer goods that people can get delivered to their homes in two days flat.

Liz Wolfe | 7.26.2021 5:20 PM

Technology

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Right: Companies That Dominate Today May Be Gone Tomorrow

Today's antitrust activists forget that big companies with significant market share come and go.

Liz Wolfe | 7.26.2021 11:05 AM

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren Wants the IRS To Create Its Own TurboTax. What Could Go Wrong?

A simplified tax code is the answer, not giving the IRS more funding.

Liz Wolfe | 7.23.2021 10:40 AM

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC Says Amazon Abuses Market Power, Ignores Fact That Customers Shop at Amazon Because They Want To

After returning from space yesterday, Jeff Bezos thanked Amazon customers who made his fortune possible.

Liz Wolfe | 7.21.2021 4:00 PM

Space

Bezos Launching Into Space Will Probably Make Your Life Better Too

May our new space billionaires produce spinoff technologies for the rest of us to enjoy in due time!

Liz Wolfe | 7.20.2021 8:50 AM

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Is Obsessed With You (If You're an Amazon Customer)

Amazon's CEO stepped down this week after 27 years of extreme customer focus.

Liz Wolfe | 7.7.2021 2:16 PM

Free Speech

Hong Kong's Free Press Is Dying

After Chinese authorities conducted newsroom raids and arrested top editors, pro-democracy publication Apple Daily realized it could no longer safely operate.

Liz Wolfe | 6.24.2021 12:00 PM

Coronavirus

International Travel Is Partially Back, but It's Worse Than Before

Border restrictions and testing requirements make vacation a bit less relaxing and a lot more expensive.

Liz Wolfe | 6.21.2021 5:10 PM

magazines

The Things They Fancied

For a zine about "the sick and twisted hobbies of rich people throughout history," little time is spent actually indicting the aristocracy.

Liz Wolfe | 6.18.2021 6:00 AM

Teachers Unions

Randi Weingarten Is Very Disappointed That NYC Mayoral Candidate Kathryn Garcia Supports Charter Schools

Yes, that very same Randi Weingarten, the teachers union president who has fought to keep children out of the classroom for the last year.

Liz Wolfe | 6.4.2021 4:40 PM

Coronavirus

Lingering COVID Requirements for NYC Bars and Restaurants Amount to Pointless Hygiene Theater

Theatrical safety checks don't keep people safe—vaccines do.

Liz Wolfe | 6.4.2021 12:30 PM

Coronavirus

Plexiglass Barriers Are Everywhere, but They're Probably Useless

There's a good chance they haven't been preventing the spread of COVID, and they might even be counterproductive.

Liz Wolfe | 5.27.2021 4:30 PM

Apps

Clubhouse

The voice-only app's rooms range from innocuous to substantive to deliberately inflammatory.

Liz Wolfe | 5.14.2021 6:30 AM

Social Justice

Basecamp Becomes the Latest Tech Company To Ban Talking Politics at Work

Silence isn't violence, and recusing your company from political discourse, as Basecamp and Coinbase have done, is a perfectly valid line to draw.

Liz Wolfe | 4.28.2021 10:05 AM

Weed Week

Weed Salvaged the Lost Year

2020 was nobody’s idea of a good year, but the ability to smoke pot in my own backyard, mostly free from fear of arrest, majorly redeemed it.

Liz Wolfe | 4.20.2021 7:00 AM

World

Hopes Dashed for Democracy in Myanmar

The nation's brief respite from military rule came to an abrupt end on February 1.

Liz Wolfe | 4.8.2021 6:00 AM

Price controls

Wartime Rationing Changed How America Ate for a Century. The Pandemic Will Do the Same.

The government tried to stabilize the nation's food supply 80 years ago. Its efforts backfired.

Liz Wolfe | 4.5.2021 6:00 AM

Andrew Cuomo

Did Cuomo Violate Ethics Rules by Having Aides Help Him With Memoir?

The book, which garnered a $4 million deal and touted Cuomo's purported pandemic-handling competence, may have gotten the governor into hot water.

Liz Wolfe | 4.2.2021 1:30 PM

Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo Reportedly Secured Special Treatment for Family Members and VIPs During Early Days of Pandemic

He should've focused on containing nursing home COVID spread, not getting VIP treatment for penthouse-dwelling Manhattanites (and his own family members).

Liz Wolfe | 3.25.2021 11:05 AM

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