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We've been pointing out for years that the supposedly "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk is one of the most aggressive abusers of state power to create chilling effects against hi ...

In Trump's America, the First Amendment is a dead letter. If you're seen as anti-Trump, you apparently no longer have any rights at all. We'll get to the man who moved a box of zi ...

There aren't many governments out there actually trying to be more transparent. Every so often, a law gets passed that benefits the public more than its benefits the government, but these are ...

The Ultimate AWS Data Master Class Bundle has 9 courses to get you up to speed on Amazon Web Services. The courses cover AWS, DevOPs, Kubernetes Mesosphere DC/OS, AWS Redshift, and more. It's on sa ...

In theory, there's a way to build a prediction market that actually provides valuable insight on issues through the wisdom of the crowds. But that's not at all what we have with the cur ...

Earlier this year America's idiot king offered a no-bid contract to one of his ex-con Mara Lago donors to "fix" the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It did not go well. Sa ...

I recognize that when we talk about AI generally, and specifically AI in the gaming industry, there are some people out there who will simply dogmatically insist that this technology doesn't ...

Afew weeks ago, Walled Culture wrote about Hadopi, France's infamous copyright enforcement mechanism. The so-called "graduated response" - aka "three strikes and you are out" - has been around ...

Last week the FTC decided to file an obviously censorial, legally baseless lawsuit against an educational non-profit in an attempt to punish the organization for its speech in a manner that is clea ...

Yeah, that's a shame. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy bigger asshole. It's as if Trump asked his underlings to generate the perfect metaphor for his second administration ...