Tech
The EU’s muddled approach to encryption
Encryption uses calculations which are easy to perform one-way round but almost impossible to reverse
The ludicrousness of stemmed wine glasses
Why does this idiotic item persist?
What Trump can learn from Boris in fighting fake news
Britain sends a clear picture to foreign adversaries about the costs of their online influence campaigns
What’s the point of trying to break up Big Tech?
This battle will run for years and enrich armies of lawyers
There’s nothing neutral about Wikipedia
For lazy journalists, Wikipedia is the only thing they read when ‘researching’ an article. And why not?
Behind the social-media blackout of Biden family corruption
If a bombshell goes off in the forest and no one is allowed to talk about it, does it make a sound?
Why can’t we talk about the Great Barrington Declaration?
The three scientists who created it aren’t outliers or cranks, but professors at Oxford, Harvard and Stanford
Liberals don’t need their own QAnon
Resistance Twitter and the misinformation of the left
Bring back robber barons
Why can’t Amazon and Facebook do what Carnegie and Rockefeller did?
Yelp’s anti-racist social credit nightmare
The company’s ‘Business Accused of Racist Behavior’ tag is straight out of the CCP playbook
The collapse of the Cambridge Analytica Brexit conspiracy theory
There was always a whiff of desperation to the Cambridge Analytica obsession
House Republicans accuse Democrats of ignoring censorship in Big Tech report
‘Democrats have rejected opportunities to explore concerns about bias’
The coming stitch-up
The Tangled Web We Weave: Inside the Shadow System That Shapes the Internet by James Ball reviewed
Bovard: yes, big tech censorship affects election outcomes
‘A growing bipartisan consensus is emerging against the power of the Big Tech companies’
Mark Zuckerberg’s quest for redemption
The new Facebook ‘Oversight Board’ is an attempt to prove that he is not above accountability and is responsive to criticism
Invasion of the Startup Backers
Tech bros have declared NYC dead — now they’re coming for my Suburban Lifestyle Dream
Milwaukee is a victory for Silicon Valley’s shadow state
Silicon Valley, like Wall Street, might talk left, but it makes sure to donate to both parties
Facebook is wrong to censor Donald Trump
‘Misinformation’ is defined so vaguely that it can be applied increasingly liberally to all manner of online content
President Trump should bend — but not break — Big Tech
Going back to the media of 25 years ago would not go well for the President or for conservatives
The media’s TikTok blindspot
Almost no journalist will write about why the Chinese app is a national security threat
Why we can’t just break up Big Tech
Drawing the dividing lines is more difficult with software
Four main takeaways from the House’s Big Tech antitrust sideshow
No one in Congress over the age of 50 should be sitting on a committee overseeing ‘Big Tech’
Does Facebook hold the key to the Rohingya genocide?
The nature of the deadly crackdown in Burma has made obtaining evidence a difficult task
Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
Chaos and division is the real goal for Russia
Trick or treat: the pros and cons of being hacked
The scammers showed me how generous my friends really are
