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There are times I wonder if the leaders of France and Australia have a secret bet to see which one of them can come up with worse internet policy than the other. Apparently it’s France’…
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California legislators, led mainly by two of the most anti-science, anti-kid legislators in the state — Josh Lowenthal and Buffy Wicks — make sure that every year they experiment on our children wi…
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You may have heard some talk in the last week or so regarding a criminal case against two former FBI agents, supposedly having something to do with Hunter Biden’s infamous “laptop.̶…
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Last year when Donald Trump sued Rupert Murdoch over the WSJ’s article revealing the… um… birthday card he sent Jeffrey Epstein, we pointed out that it was a pure SLAPP suit (and …
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Well it’s now been a couple days since the Democrats obliterated Donald Trump and MAGA in the midterm. It turns out that the messaging of “price hikes, soldiers in the street, new forev…
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, …
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Last week, Ofcom, the UK regulator in charge of all this stuff, released its “rapid assessment of highly effective age assurance at 16.” That came right on the heels of its quietly rele…
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While Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian have tried to downplay Aaron Swartz’s role in “founding” Reddit, he was still an instrumental part of the company’s early journey. His…
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By now it’s likely you’ve heard of the whole concept of the AI paperclip maximizer problem — a hypothetical first put forth by Nick Bostrom — suggesting that a misaligned AI system that…
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Last week Cathy wrote about the amicus brief we filed in the big multi-district litigation (MDL) that consolidated a bunch of different lawsuits claiming that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed the pla…