opinion
MORAL PANIC
Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.
Mike Masnick is the founder & editor of the popular Techdirt blog as well as the founder of the Silicon Valley think tank, the Copia Institute.
opinion
DON’T GET SICK OR HURT IN AMERICA
How a minor bike accident and a few stitches turned into thousands of dollars in medical bills and a months-long quest for a straight answer from somebody—anybody.
opinion
ELON’S JOURNO-LARPERS
Matt Taibbi and other Elon Musk-favored journalists published “The Westminster Declaration”—their latest attempt to spin a non-story into dire censorship.
opinion
SEE YOU IN COURT
School districts are taking Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Snapchat to court, claiming the social media apps are a public nuisance, because kids are “addicted” to them.
opinion
YOU SCURVY SCALAWAAGGG!
Conservative Fifth Circuit jurists took a sledgehammer to the First Amendment—using incoherent logic, incorrect law-reading, and fake history.
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SO, SO BAD
In the name of protecting children, legislators have introduced a trove of requirements that are anti-privacy and almost impossible to comply with.