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Financial censorship: how banks silence speech w/ Rainey Reitman

What is financial censorship?

FIRE•about 3 hours ago

Stress-testing the limits of the First Amendment w/ Chaz Stevens

Debates over religious freedom have shaped American life for centuries...

FIRE•about 3 hours ago

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Close Your Apps And Think Of England

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Ev...

Techdirt•about 7 hours ago

Two Drinks with. . . The Trump Adviser Headed to OpenAI

Dean Ball was advising the White House on emerging technology—and this week he took a job at the fro...

The Free Press•about 7 hours ago

‘Toy Story 5’ Is a Love Letter to Fathers

From an industry that usually portrays dads as fools or tyrants comes something rare: a portrait of...

The Free Press•about 7 hours ago

Fathers Are Not Mothers

A mother makes a house a home with warmth and emotional support. But a father ensures that the house...

The Free Press•about 8 hours ago

I Was Facing Prison. We Decided to Have a Baby.

During the most unstable chapter of our lives, my wife and I chose to bring another child into the w...

The Free Press•about 9 hours ago

Who’s Afraid of American Patriotism? Plus . . .

Today in The Free Press: Who’s afraid of American patriotism? Uri Berliner on how the New York Knick...

The Free Press•about 10 hours ago

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Britain’s Rape Gangs and the Failure of Feminism

Today’s feminists often prioritize cultural sensitivity over girls’ safety. Their activism helped st...

The Free Press•about 10 hours ago

Juneteenth and the Long Arc of American Freedom

Sixty-three years after Martin Luther King Jr. declared that ‘the goal of America is freedom,’ his n...

The Free Press•about 11 hours ago

Coleman Hughes: The Case for Progressive Patriotism

There’s a reason the groups most valued by progressives—people of color, the poor, residents of the...

The Free Press•about 12 hours ago

Great Americans: The Man Who Built America’s Stonehenge

Harvey Fite spent 40 years building one of America's great works of art with no plans, no collaborat...

The Free Press•about 13 hours ago

How the Knicks Saved New York—and Me

Uri Berliner was a teenager the last time the Knicks won the NBA championship. Now, having just turn...

The Free Press•about 14 hours ago

The Iran Deal Trump Can’t Legally Make

A 2015 law bars the president from lifting sanctions on Iran until Congress has reviewed any nuclear...

The Free Press•about 14 hours ago

TGIF: No One Is Getting Left Behind This Time

Iran fizzles, UFC pyrotechnics pop, Ozempic brings us closer to peace, Meta fixes its snacks, and mo...

The Free Press•about 16 hours ago

The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents

This week, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on...

Electronic Frontier Foundation•about 16 hours ago

EFF Joins 60+ Groups Urging the UK to Halt Face Estimation at the Border

This week, EFF joined Foxglove, Human Rights Watch, and 60 other organizations in writing to the UK’...

Electronic Frontier Foundation•about 16 hours ago

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