Freedom Index#PlatformEconomy
from the not-the-ftc’s-job dept In 1978, the Federal Trade Commission, the agency that regulates unfair or deceptive advertising, proposed limiting…
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and…
from the put-on-the-hotdog-costume dept You may recall that at the end of last year and very beginning of this year…
from the flat-out-refusing-to-follow-the-law dept The Trump administration continues to pretend migrants don’t have due process rights. It does this despite…
from the play-trademark-ball dept There is no shortage of examples of Major League Baseball attempting to wield overly broad trademarks…
from the lying-people-into-life-sentences dept Record law enforcement officers whenever you can. Sure, they’ll hate it, but it helps all the…
from the hypocrisy-is-a-part-of-the-job dept This article first appeared on The Texas Tribune. Two weeks before this year’s primary elections, Texas…
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept Simplify your daily charging experience and replace most of the chargers and cables on your desktop,…
from the chinagate-hoax? dept You might have heard that Donald Trump gave a weird, rambling, nonsense speech last night full…
from the stopping-the-stoppers dept Florida Republicans’ bigoted little piece of speech policing — the former “Stop WOKE Act” — has…
from the poof-it’s-gone dept In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which…
from the shadow-court dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In its term that ended last October,…