The Big Tech Challenge to Free Speech
I think it's beyond question now that our tech giants had a significant effect on the 2020 election. Their throttling, shadow-banning, and outright censorship of selective stories and outlets is…
I think it's beyond question now that our tech giants had a significant effect on the 2020 election. Their throttling, shadow-banning, and outright censorship of selective stories and outlets is…
I have long argued that constitutionality speaking, a ban on "personal defense" weapons (like Joe Biden's shotgun) is actually more permissible than a ban on "military-style weapons." Not that such…
The First Amendment is not what a lot of people think it is. In fact, "the Freedom of Speech" doesn't mean what a most people imagine it means, though its…
But the folk were gathered in the assembly place; for there a strife was arisen, two men striving about the blood-price of a man slain; the one claimed to pay…
In 1990, Congress passed the first Anabolic Steroid Control Act (H.R.4658). This bill defined steroids as: ...any drug or hormonal substance that promotes muscle growth in a manner pharmacologically similar…
I've been reading more about propertarianism of late. While I consider myself to be a propertarian, I always had a bit of an issue with propertarianism's opposition to freedom of…
At the suggestion of a friend, I have been reading over a little bit of Brandenburg v. Ohio, the 1969 legal case which most definitively decided that one's right to…
One of the newest and most diverse(TM) senators from Minnesota has gotten herself in hot water for asking why democrats care tremendously about political and economic interference of the oil,…
In his excellent book Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb makes the point that Sargon has been making online for a few years: morality is about what you do not what…
I don't think it's possible to exaggerate the importance of this story: FBI agents raided the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower who privately delivered documents pertaining to…