Does anyone truly believe that our government — which consistently creates monopoly privileges for companies with its own cronyism — can be trusted to ensure that private markets remain competitive? Apparently so. Consider the resurgence of antitrust efforts against “Big…
When a tragic Islamic terrorist attack struck San Bernardino, California the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), which failed to stop the attack, pointed the finger at Apple. One of the jihadists was a county worker and had a government-issued iPhone….
Apple unveiled plans Thursday to scan U.S. users’ iCloud Photos and text messages for child sexual abuse images in a sweeping effort to identify and implicate predators. The tool that will be used to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM)…
On January 6, 2021, then-President Trump spoke before a large group of his supporters, who marched to the U.S. Capitol to protest what they believed was a stolen election. That protest turned violent, and, sadly, five people died. Afterward, Big…
If we’re going to be objective about it, we’ve got to give the Mark Zuckerbergs, Jeff Bezoses and Jack Dorseys of the world their due — the apps they’ve created are some of the greatest technological marvels in history. It’s…
The Left could have let us rest for a year. They could have celebrated defeating their nightmare bogeyman with their mindless zombie and his token minority “second,” and controlling all three tiers of government. They could have mocked and maligned…
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley By Adrian Daub (FSG Originals, 160 pages, $13.50) Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s iconoclastic 1995 essay “The Californian Ideology” was the first stab at an intellectual history…
“He who controls the information, controls the universe!” That might not be the dastardly Baron Harkonnen’s exact words from Frank Herbert’s landmark sci-fi novel Dune; he was speaking about spice, of course. But like the spice that allows for space…
Epic Games, the creator of the immensely popular video game Fortnite, launched an antitrust challenge against Apple and Google last week that has rapidly escalated into an all-in corporate clash that could spell catastrophe for the losing side. If Epic…