With the U.K.’s Conservative Party closing in on deciding who will inherit the mess left by Boris Johnson’s tenure as prime minister, that country’s governing apparatus will soon get back to the important business of intruding into people’s lives. At the top of the to-do list is the long-coming Online Safety Bill which, as has […]
Police in Hampshire, England, arrested Darren Brady for retweeting a meme of a swastika made out of pride flags. Officers told Brady the tweet had “caused anxiety.” Brady spent several hours in jail, but following a public backlash, and criticism of the officers by the department’s commissioner, Brady was freed without charges, but also without […]
Police in Mumbai, India, have charged actor Ranveer Singh with sale or circulation of obscene material, sale of obscene objects to a young person, and insulting the modesty of any woman after he posted nude pictures of himself on Instagram. The photos were from a photo shoot for Paper magazine. An organization who filed a […]
In 2018, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website, Infowars, were banned by YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple for violating these platforms’ hate speech policies. Four years later, the largest social media platforms have prevented the promotion of a documentary about him as well. Private companies are well within their rights to make the content moderation […]
Hulu caves to political pressure on ads. Hulu will now accept ads from Democratic groups criticizing Republican stances on abortion and guns. Previously, the Disney-owned streaming service rejected these political ads—prompting fierce outcry from groups including the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). The groups ridiculously […]
Bitcoin’s true believers hold on through the wild price swings because they see enormous value in its properties as a currency with a fixed number of units that can’t be inflated by a central bank and its “uncensorability,” meaning no government or corporation can prevent one party from sending value to another no matter the […]
In Russia, a court has sentenced Moscow council member Alexei Gorinov to seven years in prison for spreading “knowingly false information.” Charges were brought against Gorinov after he opposed the council holding a children’s drawing contest and a dancing festival while the war in Ukraine is underway. “I believe all efforts of [Russian] civil society […]
The Université Laval, a public university in Quebec, has suspended Patrick Provost, a professor of microbiology and immunology, for eight weeks without pay for saying at a conference that he believes the risks of vaccinating children for COVID-19 outweigh the benefits. A university committee declared that his remarks were not objective. “I was just doing […]
The demise of Roe v. Wade has unleashed a flurry of activity by antiabortion activists looking for ways to finish the job. They are now exploring ways to stop people not just from performing abortions but from sharing information about abortion services. The National Right to Life Committee (NLRC) has drafted model legislation to provide […]