Internet
Brickbat: Disconnected
Canada's proposed Bill C-8 would let the Industry Minister secretly order telecom companies to cut phone and internet service to any person or institution if the government claims there are "reasonable grounds"…
California wants to punish social platforms for aiding and abetting the First Amendment
California is trying to punish social media platforms for aiding and abetting the First Amendment. Senate Bill 771, currently awaiting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature, would "impose meaningful consequences…
Social media pushes pornography on children within minutes, report finds
Thu Oct 9, 2025 - 11:47 am EDT (LifeSiteNews) — Social media is now one of the primary pipelines to porn addiction for both children and young adults. Global Witness, a campaign organization that investigates the impact of…
Supreme Court declines to address Section 230 in two cases for this term
The U.S. Supreme Court's new term began this week. In addition to the cases the court announced it would take up, it also declined many others, including two that asked the justices to consider and potentially reevaluate…
Ohio accidentally excludes most major porn platforms from anti-porn law
Remember when people used to say "Epic FAIL"? I'm sorry, but there's no other way to describe Ohio's new age verification law, which took effect on September 30. A variation on a mandate that's…
Back to the 7th century
From the BBC, Afghanistan telecom blackout as Taliban shuts off internet. No, really. The Taliban in Afghanistan have imposed a nationwide shut down of telecommunications, weeks after they began severing fibre-optic internet…
Can we please stop romanticizing pre-smartphone life?
Of course there are some downsides to smartphones. I'm not denying that. But all too often, critics of phones—or of any new technology—have a tendency to romanticize the past in an attempt to make our tech-enabled…
Brickbat: No Bars
Equatorial Guinea's government imposed a year-long internet outage for Annobón, an island province, after residents complained about a construction company's use of dynamite. Protesters wrote to the government with…
