Originally posted on December 9, 2020. Reposted here without edits. On December 8, Anne Longfield, the children’s commissioner for England, published a briefing decrying the planned move to end-to-end encryption for their direct messaging (“DM”) applications by social media companies such as Facebook1. The utterly cynical interpretation of all this is that the government plans […]
It turns out that one of the first initiatives undertaken by the newly elected Republican majority in the US House of Representatives was to demonstrate its unswerving commitment to the still apparently ongoing fight against socialism by enacting a resolution, H.R. 9, entitled “Denouncing the horrors of socialism”1. This resolution was duly passed on February […]
Originally published on May 1, 2021. Republished with minor grammatical edits. There are press conferences, and then there are press conferences. In April of 2020, when the COVID-19 epidemic was raging across the state of New York, especially in New York City, the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, began to hold daily press conferences updating the […]