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Great moments in unintended consequences—when something that sounds like a great idea goes horribly wrong. Watch the whole series. Part One: We Knead Dough The Year: 2019 The Problem: Restaurants aren't signing up for DoorDash. The Solution: Prove its value by adding restaurants for free—without notification or permission. Once presented with the sales data, restaurants will sign up in droves! Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? Turns out, people don't like it when you mess with their business. Restaurants that never offered delivery were sudden...
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Russia's Prosecutor General's Office ruled on July 10 to declare the independent Russian media outlet the Moscow Times an "undesirable organization," which establishes criminal penalties for anyone who works with or has links to the outlet. The law on "undesirable" organizations has existed since 2015 and has been used to target perceived opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, including NGOs, independent media outlets, human rights groups, and others. The prosecutor's office justified their decision by claiming that the work of the Moscow Times is "is aimed at discrediting the...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office ruled on July 10 to declare the independent Russian media outlet the Moscow Times an "undesirable organization," which establishes criminal penalties for anyone who works with or has links to the outlet. The law on "undesirable" organizations has existed since 2015 and has been used to target perceived opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, including NGOs, independent media outlets, human rights groups, and others. The prosecutor's office justified their decision by claiming that the work of the Moscow Times is "is aimed at discrediting the...
Kyiv Independent
Russia's Prosecutor General's Office ruled on July 10 to declare the independent Russian media outlet the Moscow Times an "undesirable organization," which establishes criminal penalties for anyone who works with or has links to the outlet. The law on "undesirable" organizations has existed since 2015 and has been used to target perceived opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, including NGOs, independent media outlets, human rights groups, and others. The prosecutor's office justified their decision by claiming that the work of the Moscow Times is "is aimed at discrediting the...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Elizabeth Nolan Brown size up the fallout from the mainstream media's lag in coverage of Joe Biden's cognitive decline, despite evidence existing well before his seismic debate performance on June 27. 01:50—Media fallout after Biden's debate performance 28:13—The Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity. 37:06—Weekly Listener Question 42:46— The Supreme Court's ruling on social media moderation 50:39—This week's cultural recommendations Mentioned in this podcast: "Ticket Ch...
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Collage by Arzu Geybullayeva. Images free to use courtesy of Global Voices’ content partners. June 21, marked a year since the Azerbaijani village of Söyüdlü was rocked by environmental protests organized by local residents objecting to the construction plans for a second artificial lake, also known as the tailing dam. Footage of riot police using disproportionate physical force, rubber bullets, and tear gas against village residents was widely reported by the local media at the time. At least five village residents received administrative detentions and one resident received an administrative...
Global Voices
Masameer County was supposed to be Saudi Arabia's big break in the comedy world. The online cartoon, similar in tone to South Park and Family Guy, had been growing in popularity as the kingdom was undergoing social reforms. When Netflix picked up Masameer County in 2021, it quickly topped the viewership charts in Saudi Arabia. And you didn't have to be Saudi to enjoy it. The citizens of Masameer, a fictional Saudi metropolis, suffer from the same everyday problems as the rest of us: annoying viral trends, spoiled nepo babies, obsessive online nerds, pandemic-induced social isolation, and badly...
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Two laws requiring age verification online have been paused by federal courts. The laws in Indiana and Mississippi are now on hold as legal challenges to them play out. The Indiana law (Senate Bill 17) says visitors to websites that display pornography or other "adult oriented" content that is "harmful to minors" must submit a copy of their driver's license or otherwise verify that they're at least 18 years old. The Mississippi law (House Bill 1126, also known as the Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act) says social media platforms must verify people's ages before letting them crea...
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"The First Amendment is spinning out of control," Columbia law professor Tim Wu warns in a New York Times essay. While Wu ostensibly objects to Supreme Court decisions that he thinks have interpreted freedom of speech too broadly, his complaint amounts to a rejection of the premise that the principle should be applied consistently, especially when it benefits speakers and messages he does not like. The immediate provocation for Wu's diatribe is yesterday's Supreme Court decisions in two cases challenging Florida and Texas laws that aimed to restrict content moderation on social media. Although...
Reason
The Supreme Court ruled today in two cases that could have a major impact on how social media platforms operate and how the government can interfere on behalf of political speech on these platforms. The cases (NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice) were brought by two tech industry trade groups—NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association—that opposed social media moderation laws in Florida and Texas. The Court unanimously agreed to vacate decisions by the 11th Circuit and the 5th Circuit—which upheld a preliminary injunction on the Florida law (finding it likely did v...
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