Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are.
X had already withheld access to the videos for Australian users, but the eSafety Commissioner wanted X to take down the videos for its global user base as well, citing 'Class 1' content.
This will grab your attention. At the bottom of the front page of Thursday’s USA Today was this headline: Shooter Rittenhouse’s tour draws outrage College gun-rights events raise questions about free speech and its impact USA Today thinks pro-gun-rights speech “raises questions”? The online headline was even stronger: Kyle Rittenhouse, deadly shooter, college speaker? A campus gun-rights tour sparks outrage As in: Who’s approving this speech on campus? A video in the online story shows...
This will grab your attention. At the bottom of the front page of Thursday’s USA Today was this headline: Shooter Rittenhouse’s tour draws outrage College gun-rights events raise questions about free speech and its impact USA Today thinks pro-gun-rights speech “raises questions”? The online headline was even stronger: Kyle Rittenhouse, deadly shooter, college speaker? A campus gun-rights tour sparks outrage As in: Who’s approving this speech on campus? A video in the online story shows...
It didn’t take Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation to alert us to social media’s pernicious effects on children and teenagers. And it turns out that TikTok, a digital application owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, goes viral in the minds of young people significantly more than Instagram, Facebook, X, and Snapchat — and Chinese divestment from TikTok would enhance free speech.
Bosses ditched the physical catalogue at the start of this month (1/4) after 144 years, leaving the website as the only place to get numbers without paying.
It's Earth Day on Monday, April 22. This is usually a day to mock the green fanatics who strike a pose and wear sackcloth and ashes to show how much they truly, really care about saving the planet.
Meta has recently released a large language model, Llama 3, that powers "Meta AI," which is a chatbot that has been implemented into several of the company's social media apps. But some in the tech world have noted that it is free to use, which, unfortunately, reflects the quality of the artificially intelligent bot. Tech Crunch reported that the chatbot "tends to regurgitate a lot of web search results, and it doesn't excel at anything, but hey — the price is right."Meta AI can currently be...
It is outrageous what President Joe Biden and crooked district attorneys and judges are doing to former President Donald Trump.
A report from the field For reasons I’m not entirely clear on, I happen to be someone who often finds himself in wildly different social circles through Facebook groups, email lists, and IRL gatherings. And when I say “wildly different,” I mean woke media and academic types, so-called TERFs and third-wave feminists, anarchists, MAGA, new right, tradcaths, rationalists, postrats, classical liberals, and more. If you have thoughts on some fringe, I’ve probably been in its group chat or at an...
What’s behind the wage gap between men and women? It has narrowed recently. In 2023, women’s median weekly wages of $1,005 equaled 84% of men’s Read More
USC cancelled its pro-Palestinian valedictorian’s commencement speech, raising questions about the university’s limits on free speech. So, where’s the outrage from the cancel culture crowd? MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin calls out the double standard.