Zuckerberg is as disingenuous in his stated aims as are the lawmakers. None of them actually care about free speech, truthful information, or bias. This is about money and control, as it almost always is when it comes to the government.
Technology
Three – No, Four – Cheers for Space-Travelling Billionaires
The era of private space travel is well underway – and the enemies of capitalism do not like it.
Boom Supersonic: Flight Times May Soon Be Cut in Half—Thanks to Capitalism
“I have a fundamental belief that supersonic flight, done right, is good for people. When there’s a criticism, you first have to look in the mirror and ask, ‘Is there validity to it?’ And if there is, shut up and go fix it.” – Blake Scholl, CEO BOOM Supersonic
Roundabouts Are Better
I hate waiting at traffic lights. There’s a solution: traffic circles, or roundabouts.
Julian Simon: The Ultimate Resource is The Human Mind
Each person born brings a mouth to feed and hands with which to scratch the ground, but most importantly, each new person brings a mind with which to have new ideas. The key, Simon argues, is freedom. When free minds are blessed with political and economic freedom, they can accomplish anything.
The Private Space Race
For-profit competition brings us the best things in life.
How a South Korean Biotech Company Created COVID-19 Testing Kits In Three Weeks
To understand how Seegene accomplished the fast development and production of the testing kits, we must grasp the four crucial values at play—values that we cannot afford to lose, even during a pandemic: reason, independent thinking, production, and freedom.
Facebook and Google Must Answer to the Market
Facebook and Google’s ability to watch their customers has made many uncomfortable, but after 2018 both know that their customers are watching back.
How Amazon Benefits Consumers and Small Businesses
For small retailers, especially those selling goods Amazon itself does not choose to carry, Amazon Marketplace may be the entire reason for their existence.
Consumers and Not Bureaucrats Should Regulate Facebook and Google
Our economy depends on the continued forward march of technological progress. But with this growth come new problems and, inevitably, new regulation. We must ensure that this regulation does not stifle tomorrow’s innovations, whose details we cannot predict in...
Break Up Government, Not Tech Companies
A Response to Elizabeth Warren’s Fascist Plan To Break Up Successful Tech Companies
Social Media Bias II
When social media platforms only pick certain politically disfavored positions to add Wiki links to, they skew debate.
Social Media Trickery
I’m glad Twitter purges robots and Facebook bans posts that call for direct violence (that’s illegal, after all). But I worry when big media companies start policing content.
FCC Ends The Net Neutrality Attack on Internet Freedom
Regulating public utilities to be “neutral” has led to ever-escalating prices and poor service (think of postal services and roads), due to inefficient operations and the lack of incentives—competition—to lower costs and to improve service.
In Defense of the Automobile: Automobiles Are A Solution, Not A Scourge
It is critical to robust intellectual discussion of modern human life to acknowledge and celebrate the liberating role that the automobile has played in making this the greatest era in history for human flourishing.
Net Neutrality Is Turning the Internet into a Government Utility
The great crime of government regulation is that it suffocates and prevents good and great things from happening, things that we’ll never know about — because they never get a chance to happen.
Say Good Night, Internet
The federal government cannot stand the idea that the Internet economy was a successful instance of (in today’s context) relatively unhampered market capitalism.
New Technology: Can the Government Really Pick Winners?
Innovations do not always occur at the speed or in the direction that government officials would like.
Vaccines: Jenner, Pasteur, and the Dawn of Scientific Medicine (Part 1 of 2)
With the issue of mandatory vaccination programs for infants and children, lines have been drawn in the sand. On one side, we find concerned parents, increasingly being supported by dissenting physicians and scientists troubled by the serious side effects of vaccines,...
Fairness Doctrine for the Internet? It Could Be Coming…
Have you forgotten about Obama's attempt to control the Internet -- in Orwellian doublespeak known as "Net Neutrality"? Well, the Republican House of Representatives (to their credit) has not forgotten. Two days before Christmas, the FCC issued “net...
Net Neutrality: Obamacare for the Internet
In case you haven't heard, Obama's FCC has passed new rules requiring private companies who provide Internet services to submit to control under the government. What will government's rules be? Those are yet to be determined. But the government alone will decide what...
Net Neutrality vs. Internet Freedom
Google has no more right to demand that Verizon be “neutral” with its network than Verizon has a right to demand that Google be “neutral” with its coveted advertising space.
Anarchy on the Internet
The Internet provides vast amounts of information but it can also spread vast amounts of misinformation, or even deliberately misleading disinformation. For more than two weeks, scarcely a day has gone by without e-mails pouring in to me, asking about columns that...
“Net Neutrality”: Destroyer of Internet Freedom
Advocates of "net neutrality" are apoplectic amid reports that ISP Comcast slowed down file-sharing programs on its network. The FCC is threatening action against Comcast, while advocates of a new net-neutrality law sponsored by Congressman Edward Markey are taking...