When the federal government gets together with social media giants to censor critics of the government, is that free speech or censorship? A case moving its way through the federal court system argues it’s censorship — a violation of Americans’…
Facebook made the metaverse a kitchen table topic when it changed its name to Meta. What is the metaverse, exactly? It’s a virtual world where you can be Snoop Dogg’s neighbor without physically living next to him — yes, you…
Doubtless you’ve heard the news. Here’s the headline per Fox News: SINISTER SABOTAGE? Facebook and Instagram down in major social media outage and it gets worse from there The Fox story begins this way: Facebook’s platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp,…
Donald Trump announced in a press conference Wednesday morning that he has filed lawsuits against the CEOs of Silicon Valley’s most powerful corporations: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sundar Pichai of Google, and Jack Dorsey of Twitter. Trump, who was banned…
We haven’t done a Five Quick Things in this space in a while, and as this has been a long week taxing to the mental energies it seems this is a good time for a 5QT return to the ring….
A warning: near the bottom of this column you’ll find a completely shameless, though entirely relevant, plug. There, I said it. And I don’t apologize. Have you been paying attention to the Facebook–Australia dustup? It’s a fascinating and entirely predictable…
“The Silencing Fathers,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, January 15, 2021.
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…
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…
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