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.
In brief Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said that Toncoin (TON) will be rebanded as Gram, the coin’s original planned name.…
From Wenzler v. U.S. Coast Guard, decided today by Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder, joined by Judges Amy St. Eve…
On 15 April, forty out of 47 Democratic Senators voted for Bernie Sanders’s motion to block arms sales to Israel.…
In brief NVIDIA unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex on June 1, a 550-billion-parameter open-weight model. The model delivers over…
from the running-out-of-lawyers dept The DOJ has gone past bleeding talent. Now, it’s just bleeding whatever. It’s one thing to…
Today, the Society for the Rule of Law published my article on “The Case Against Mass Deportation,” on its Checks…
In brief Visits to noai.duckduckgo.com—DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search subdomain—tripled after Google announced its AI search overhaul at I/O, and have been…
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE).…
In brief SpaceX added a warning to its amended IPO filing that it may issue a significant amount of equity…
from the here-we-go-again dept John Deere is facing a second class action lawsuit for its ongoing, ham-fisted effort to monopolize…
Judge Eleanor Ross, who serves on the federal bench in Atlanta, engaged in multiple acts of misconduct. She carried on…
In brief A market asking whether Strategy would sell Bitcoin by May 31 is currently in dispute on Polymarket. The…