Just in case your opinion of the Transportation Security Administration wasn’t low enough already, now they’re going to be getting even more of your biometric data. According to a Monday report in tech policy outlet Nextgov/FCW, the TSA is planning a rollout of new facial-scanning units at over 400 airports in the United States and […]
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri grilled Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday at a congressional hearing regarding child safety on social media platforms. Hawley even elicited an apology from Zuckerberg to family members of those who have been harmed through content on social media. Meta is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. During the […]
This was supposed to be a sad homage to the glory days of the Los Angeles Times, a once great newspaper that showed sleepy SoCal residents sharp elbowed enterprise and investigative journalism seen only in the big cities back East. The Times appears to be on a ventilator at the moment as its billionaire […]
Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda is throwing cold water on the hopes of liberal green energy proponents about the ultimate reach of electric vehicles, which he says will never become the dominant form of vehicles on the road. At a business event in Japan, Toyoda, the current chairman and former CEO of Toyota, and […]
Seattle talk show host Jason Rantz recently rented an electric vehicle and ended up stranded in the middle of a freezing cold Washington night when his rental ran out of juice as he searched for a charging station. The incident revealed some of the many major problems inherent in driving an electric car, all of […]
Look out, Google: YouTube’s free speech-centric competitor just scored a major partnership, and the market is noticing in a big way. On Monday, Rumble — the less-restrictive alternative video platform backed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, which aims to “create technologies that are immune to cancel culture” — announced a partnership with Barstool Sports, […]
We are all familiar with the standard form of censorship–simply preventing the dissemination of ideas that are not approved. But that is only one of several forms that censorship can take. I have occasionally been outright censored online–on Twitter 1.0, I was temporarily suspended because the censors didn’t like what I said, and I was […]
Instagram deleted the America First Policy Institute’s account Wednesday without any explanation. Brooke Rollins, founder and CEO of the organization, announced on X that the account, a1policy, was banned at 8:49 a.m. The organization appealed at 9:10 a.m. only to receive another message from Instagram at 9:16 a.m. permanently disabling the account. “After posting graphics […]
A new report has revealed that China used a U.S. internet service provider in January and February to transmit the data from its spy balloon back to Chinese spymasters as it flew across the length of the United States without opposition from the Biden administration. The report from NBC News did not name the internet […]
Since Twitter banned former President Trump, you can’t watch or read the news without hearing about Big Tech, censorship, the First Amendment, and Section 230. There’s a lot to unpack here, but this is a topic that’s important for all of us to understand. We may differ in opinion (and that’s OK!) – my purpose […]
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