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Katie Couric recently claimed that repealing Section 230 would help combat online misinformation. The problem is, she couldn't be more wrong. Worse, as a prominent voice, she's contribu ...

For the better part of the last thirty years, telecom giants and "free market" libertarian think tanks have told anybody who'd listen that gutting regulatory oversight of the U.S.

A few years back, Karl Bode wrote about YouTube TV's 2020 price hike, going from $50/month for its base package, to $65/month. The framing of that post was spot on: Google was behaving much l ...

If you've ever wondered how the right-wing media ecosystem operates and why it's effective, try viewing it as a form of improvisational theater or improv. In the wake of the 2024 U.S. elections, ev ...

Quite famously, snarkier-than-thou music review site Pitchfork posted a brief, incisive review of Australian band Jet's second album in 2006. The review contained nothing more than the 0.0 sc ...

Earlier, Karl wrote about a bill from Senator Ron Wyden which would put pressure on big telcos to actually protect our privacy (following the news of Chinese hackers abusing backdoor access to our ...

This week, the United Nations General Assembly is set to adopt the UN Cybercrime Convention, almost exactly five years after it approved a resolution to launch its negotiation. The Convention text ...

We've noted for decades that U.S. telecom security and privacy standards aren't great. T-Mobile has been hacked so many times in the last five years it's easy to lose count. AT&am ...

If you've been following the Kickstarter campaign for our new card game, One Billion Users, then you know we're not quite on track on to hit our goal -- but we haven't given up! We ...

Those of you who still believe the nation's courts are capable of handling the constitutionally-guaranteed redress of grievances, prepare to be disabused of those notions. While the courts ma ...