Chinese Hackers Used U.S. Government-Mandated Wiretap Systems
A backdoor for anybody is a backdoor for everybody.
A backdoor for anybody is a backdoor for everybody.
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Her comments are a reminder that this free-speech protection is far from safe.
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The digital world has not effaced our humanity, no matter what social critics like Christine Rosen say.
Democrats' aggressive antitrust agenda threatens to upend Google's ad tech business—and make U.S. markets less free.
Governments around the world seek to suppress ideas and control communications channels.
The Telegram co-founder may become a free-expression martyr for the terrible crime of enabling permissionless speech.
French police arrested Telegram founder Pavel Durov for failing to control his social media and messaging app.
Now more than ever, people’s freedom lies in their ability to communicate and access information with privacy and security.
Sen. Rand Paul makes the case against the Kids Online Safety Act.
"We'd have a national ban on pornography if we could, right?"
Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network.
The rush to crack down on the young people making money on TikTok misses the real causes and possible effects of the social media influencer boom.
Google is "the best," the court says. But being on top is dangerous.
Only Sens. Paul and Wyden are expected to vote "no" on Tuesday. Power to stop KOSA now resides with the House.
The Kids Online Safety Act would have cataclysmic effects on free speech and privacy online.
Online trolls weaponized child protective services against J.D. and Britney Lott and their eight children.
Growth of regulation slowed under former President Trump, but it still increased.
We're looking at four more years of anti-tech and anti-business antics from the FTC no matter who wins this November.
In a "novel" order concerning the app NGL, the agency takes aim at online anonymity and at minors on social media.
I wrote for the .com culture site in its heyday. I don't mourn its disappearance.
Yes, cheap imports hurt some American companies. But protectionist trade policy harms many more Americans than it helps.
Hacktivist-journalist Barrett Brown sets out to settle scores in his new memoir.
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And the Supreme Court agrees to weigh in.
Even as he praises judicial decisions that made room for "dissenters" and protected "robust political debate," Tim Wu pushes sweeping rationales for censorship.
The Court is remanding these two cases for more analysis—but it made its views on some key issues clear.
China's free speech record is bad, but the federal government's isn't so great either.
The senior Republican FCC commissioner blames progressive politics, while lawmakers and telecom companies blame bureaucratic red tape.
A year after a court told Maryland police that Cellebrite searches were too broad, Baltimore quietly resumed using the software.
X's child porn detection system doesn’t violate an Illinois biometric privacy law, the judge ruled.
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Officials suspend efforts to force X to suppress the world’s access to video of a crime.
Don’t unleash censors; restrain them more!
New bipartisan legislation would sunset Section 230 after next year.
OnlyFans lets women distribute their own porn. Artificial intelligence will give them even more control.
OnlyFans let women distribute their own porn. Artificial intelligence will give them even more control.
Congress is "silencing the 170 million Americans who use the platform to communicate," the company argues.
How the Backpage prosecution helped create a playbook for suppressing online speech, debanking disfavored groups, and using "conspiracy" charges to imprison the government's targets
At least eight states have already enacted age-verification laws, and several more are considering bills.
Net neutrality rules have been instituted and repealed multiple times in the past 15 years, and yet internet use has thrived in each scenario.
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"Profound irreparable harm flows from the Act's chilling of adults' access to protected sexual expression," the filing reads.
An interview with Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski.
The push to regulate social media content infringes on rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
Kentucky's governor signed a law last week that could require porn sites to ask for users' government IDs before allowing access to adult material.