Stossel: Does Silicon Valley Manipulate Users?
New film The Creepy Line argues that tech giants sometimes silence conservatives and try to steer America left.
New film The Creepy Line argues that tech giants sometimes silence conservatives and try to steer America left.
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New rules ban erotic art, talk of shared sexual interests, kink groups, and anything that "encourages sexual encounters between adults."
Tech companies are compiling incredibly detailed dossiers about you.
Killing Section 230 would only lead web platforms to ban even more speech.
As Facebook's supposed ideological allies unfriend the social media giant, the tech industry is learning that there are no permanent allegiances in politics.
Censoring politicians' racist, sexist, and abhorrent behavior on social media does a big favor to racist, sexist, and abhorrent politicians.
What should the culture of free speech, free expression, and ownership look like on our social media platforms?
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Facebook, Twitter, and other mainstream social networks have their issues. Are these 5 platforms viable alternatives?
The best answer to speech we don't like is: more speech.
Hundreds of pages and accounts have been purged over accusations that they were "inauthentic." The page operators disagree.
The bigger the company, the bigger the target.
Bill also calls for holding forum moderators legally liable for extreme speech.
"Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade last week." Except he didn't.
The Department of Justice plans to look into whether social media platforms are "hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas."
Tom Cotton to Jack Dorsey: "Do you prefer to see America remain the world's dominant global superpower?"
Should we be concerned about a new system to keep track of real vs. fake news?
The feds hound Facebook for ads that allegedly violate the Fair Housing Act.
It's implausible to imagine a future in which liberal activists don't demand that right-of-center groups be de-platformed.
The classical liberal group accuses Facebook of bias.
No one will miss Infowars, but that's beside the point.
Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple accuse him of violating their platforms' speech codes.
The platform is struggling to handle contradictory laws about legal and illegal use of pot
If you were planning to attend an anti-right rally in D.C. next week, we've got some awkward news for you.
Domestic surveillance in Tennessee.
Representatives of the oldest profession were on Capitol Hill fighting FOSTA and SESTA, with our online freedoms hanging in the balance.
Reason's Robby Soave and Mike Riggs debate whether Mark Zuckerberg's should de-platform haters such as Alex Jones and Infowars to improve the user experience.
Censorship is "nefarious." Unless it's being carried out by the government.
Silencing hate isn't the same thing as squelching it.
Facebook apologizes to Zion's Joy! after treating a music video like a campaign ad.
The dangers of government surveillance.
The First Amendment constrains speech regulation by the government, not by private parties.
The ruling against Donald Trump's blocking of Twitter critics provides guidelines for staying on the right side of the First Amendment.
"You can't post pictures of buds. You can't post pictures of selfies of a bong hit."
The HBO series turns Facebook and Twitter into a theme park filled with sex, violence, and robots.
When it comes to mishandling the details of your life, social media has nothing on the tax man.
Congress doesn't have the best track record on privacy rights.
Congress is filled with elderly politicians completely unsuited to regulate the tech industry.
HBO's hit sitcom about the tech industry lights a real-world path to a better internet.
We can think of at least one whistleblower who agrees.
"You used language of safety and protection earlier. We see this happening on college campuses all across the country."
"If Facebook and other online companies will not or cannot fix their privacy invasions, then we are going to have to. We, the Congress."
His company's revenue and user growth are flattening; his image is in the toilet. Expect an embrace of hard or soft regulation from the social media king.
Lawmakers are exploiting the Cambridge Analytica scandal to push new internet regulations.