The entire world is atwitter with Elon Musk’s proposed buyout of Twitter. If Twitter accepts Musk’s proposal, it will allow the free market to ensure a marketplace of ideas in big tech rather than employing big government to do so….
Sacramento A Facebook friend recently published a link to some dodgy website, so I did what most of us do. I posted a critical comment, which led to a back and forth with someone I’ve never even met. I somehow…
On the precipice of the regime-defining 2020 presidential election, Facebook and Twitter committed their “Pearl Harbor attack” against the incumbent president, Donald Trump, and in dutiful favor of the regnant regime’s favored candidate, Joe Biden. In an October move that…
The Senate Judiciary Committee has dispatched a blitzkrieg on consumer security and privacy in the tech sector. It has in the last month rubber-stamped the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and the Open App Markets Act, justifying reckless market…
The world is a complex and troubled place. We can’t fix it. To mature is to understand this. One of the big differences between liberals and conservatives is that the latter have already come to terms with the fact that…
So much for starting out 2022 in the spirit of unity. The nation’s leading newspaper used the fresh beginning of New Year’s Day to once again insist that Donald Trump and his supporters are an existential threat to our beloved,…
At this point, Republicans take it for granted that “Big Tech censorship” is a profound threat to free speech. It’s not just that Facebook and Twitter disfavor conservatives, the thinking runs; it’s that they are despots wielding state-like control over…
“Democracy,” H.L. Mencken wrote, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Every new legislative session offers abundant evidence of the famed Baltimore journalist’s pithy words, but new Democratic…
Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa shared the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the first time journalists have been the laureates of the prestigious, and at times controversial, institution. The Nobel Peace Prize is conferred by the Norwegian parliament, in keeping…
