Freedom IndexMedia & Culture
Media & Culture explores how journalism, entertainment, and creative industries influence—and are influenced by—free speech. From press freedom to artistic expression, this category highlights the cultural impact of censorship and the ongoing struggle for open dialogue.
Property once owned by Marilyn Monroe in Los Angeles. (Pacific Legal Foundation/Latham & Watkins) In Milstein v. City of…
In brief Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies may start slowing its ETH purchases. Of the potential slowdown, the firm’s…
from the security-theater dept Utah has a long track record of short-sighted internet policymaking, but the latest example really does…
In a recent meeting of the Box Elder County Commission in Tremonton, Utah, a man yelled at the cloud. “It’s…
In brief AI tools like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview are dramatically lowering the bar for cyberattacks, enabling even unskilled actors…
Federal civil rights law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and also sex. Quite obviously, these protections have to…
In brief Researchers at IMDEA Networks found 13+ third-party trackers embedded in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity, including tools from…
from the worst-people-have-the-most-power dept The cops never change. Only the tech toys do. That’s the upshot of this report from…
The Department of Justice this week filed two Second Amendment lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of…
In brief Publicly traded Bitcoin miner American Bitcoin reported net losses of nearly $82 million in Q1 2026, up from…
[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon…
In brief Amazon Web Services launched AgentCore Payments with Coinbase and Stripe for AI agent transactions. The system uses Coinbase’s…