How To Fix Social Media and Democracy
The creator of "Godwin's law" about Hitler analogies has a bold new vision for free expression, online and off.
The creator of "Godwin's law" about Hitler analogies has a bold new vision for free expression, online and off.
Glenn Beck says social media outlets are biased against conservatives.
When online privacy faces off against portability
Besides, the regulators are already licking their chops.
The populist senator's campaign against social media addiction is unscientific and anti-freedom.
Everybody’s going after Google and Facebook. But how do you prove they’re harming consumers?
The same First Amendment principles that apply to the president also apply to the congresswoman.
The FBI is looking for companies to comb through social media posts and pinpoint possible threats ahead of time. Think of it like a meme-illiterate Facebook-stalking precog from Minority Report.
Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook are all in the federal government’s crosshairs.
Both Democrats and Republicans are cheerleading for government action against Facebook, Google, Amazon, and the rest, but Americans should be skeptical.
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez will never get to interrogate Satoshi Nakamoto.
Trump supports a bill that would encourage censorship in the name of free speech.
The president invited Republican lawmakers as well as social media stars who claim that tech giants are suppressing free speech.
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest venture won't compete with Satoshi Nakamoto’s project for undermining central banking, tyranny, and the financial surveillance state.
Be afraid as more journalists and politicians start calling for stronger policing of online speech.
Being a big company is not a crime. What problem are we trying to fix?
Censorship inevitably ends up being used to protect the powerful from criticism.
Abroad, legislators are in the mood to theatrically punish social media companies. CEOs shouldn’t play along.
In the best of all possible worlds, such actions wouldn't be necessary. In the current climate, boycotting social media might spark a return to a robust marketplace of ideas.
Social media platforms and governments are "voluntarily" teaming up to ban "violent extremist content." What could go wrong?
Co-founder Chris Hughes' call for antitrust action is vainglorious and misguided.
Resist when politicians declare that speech (even radical speech) is a “threat to our democracy.”
Private property rights, public squares, "dangerous" speech, and pre-regulatory suck-ups, all debated on the Reason Podcast.
Even more worrying: New Zealand's leading media outlets are self-censoring coverage of the Christchurch mass shooting.
Legal scholar Jeff Kosseff wanted to write a "biography" of Section 230, the law that immunizes websites and ISPs from a lot of legal actions. He fears he has written its obituary.
Right after 290 people were killed in a series of Easter Sunday bombings
Facebook would prosper in a less robust market.
They say the social media companies display a bias against conservatives.
How established businesses use government to limit competition.
Will a thirst to punish Silicon Valley destroy our liberty?
He's got his reasons, but they all suck. And will accelerate Facebook's decline as a destination in cyberspace.
A real American genius Joe is not.
Facebook and the end of the open Internet era
Do you have a license to link to that story? Will your sexy Tinder photo get confused with a celebrity's?
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: Facebook says it's pivoting to privacy, and congressional Democrats want to "save the internet."
"Google and Facebook should not be a law unto themselves. They should not be able to discriminate against conservatives."
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"We shouldn't have to think about self-censoring what we say online."
Facebook is the latest to announce its intentions to save local media.
It's "important to be clear about how rare this behavior is on social platforms," researchers say.
A Barberton judge just sentenced a woman to jail, house arrest, and a year without social media for repeating a rumor about a pellet gun at school.
Facebook, Google, Apple, and others are now facing the sort of regulatory and antitrust animus once leveled at Bill Gates' company.