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Backpage

How Backpage Became MILFS.com 

MILFS: Moms I'd Like To Federally Seize? 

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.28.2025 11:15 AM

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Privacy

Age Verification Laws Meet VPNs and Lawsuits in a War Over Speech and Privacy

A new crop of restrictive laws faces a friendly reception in the courts but ongoing public resistance.

J.D. Tuccille | 1.24.2025 7:00 AM

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Education

Brickbat: I Can't Get Into That

Charles Oliver | 7.16.2024 4:00 AM

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Technology

Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham Will Break the Internet

The senators say they're creating an "independent, bipartisan regulator charged with licensing and policing the nation's biggest tech companies." What could go wrong?

Liz Wolfe | 7.27.2023 1:35 PM

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Gay Marriage

Supreme Court Debates Whether Web Designers Can Be Forced To Make Gay Wedding Pages

A million hypotheticals bloom in arguments over when and where the government may compel speech.

Scott Shackford | 12.5.2022 3:45 PM

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Free Speech

Kiwi Farms Is Back

The return of the trollish forum demonstrates the futility of bans on bad speech.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.7.2022 10:00 AM

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Internet

Cloudflare Can Cancel Service to Terrible Websites Like Kiwi Farms. But Should It?

Cloudflare's decision brings up fundamental questions about how internet infrastructure companies should operate.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.8.2022 12:50 PM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: No Comment

Charles Oliver | 7.11.2022 4:00 AM

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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

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Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

For sci fi fans who enjoy getting lost in internet rabbit holes

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.16.2021 6:00 AM

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Sex

The Future of FOSTA May Be Frivolous Lawsuits 

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.30.2020 6:30 AM

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