We Seem to Be Re-Learning Free Speech Principles From Scratch
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Watching the United States — the home of the First Amendment — struggle to respond to student protests has been like watching Albert Einstein struggle to complete the “get Grimace to the fries” maze on the back of a Happy Meal. How did we get here? How did things devolve so badly that pretty-straight-forward free speech issues are treated like unsolvable puzzles? I’m one of those highly punchable “it’s complicated” dweebs, but for once, I’m singing a different tune: This is actually
TikTok Has Clarified the "Are Social Media Companies Publishers or Platforms?" Question
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What is TikTok? A petrie dish for teenagers’ most vile and horny impulses? Yes, for sure. A child-brain-melting machine more potent than anything Dow Chemical developed in the ‘50s? Yes, that too. But is it an intelligence operation by the Chinese government?
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