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Courtesy Ken Russell Miami Commissioner Ken Russell is running to defeat Sen. Marco Rubio in Florida. He joins a crowded Democratic primary thats likely to include Rep. Val Demings.  He talked to Insider exclusively prior to officially declaring his candidacy yesterday.  MIAMI — Miami Commissioner Ken Russell announced Thursday that hell run for US Senate in hopes of defeating Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in 2022.  Russell — a former kite surfer and yo-yo cha...

The perpetual pattern: Government gets a little involved in the private sector — and screws things up a little.  Government then lies — and says the private sector screwed things up.  Allegedly justifying the government getting more involved.  Which screws things up more.  Government then says the private sector screwed things up…. Lather, rinse, repeat…. Government failing is just the way things are.  It is immutable fact.  People running their own lives are better at it than oth...

Republicans and Democrats alike want to update the foundational internet law. But there’s a risk here (many, in fact).

Sex workers have gained the backing of a small group of Democratic lawmakers after largely being shut out of the policymaking process.

May 28, 2021 at 8:53 AM Shares0 On Monday we noted that Florida Man Governor Ron DeSantis had signed into law the new blatantly unconstitutional social media content moderation bill, complete with its extra corrupt Mickey Mouse exemption for (Disney) companies who own (Disney) theme parks. Of course, it’s one thing to just note that the bill is unconstitutional and another thing altogether to go through the annoyingly stupid process of proving that the bill is unconstitutional. Now, Net...

Florida passed a bill to block social media deplatforming of political candidates, Amazon faces a big antitrust challenge, and we're still missing the bigger issue before us.

Mon, May 24th 2021 1:36pm — Mike Masnick And, off we go. Weve talked about a bunch of states pushing blatantly unconstitutional social media content moderation bills, with Florida leading the pack as the most eager to waste taxpayer money on something so obviously bogus. As youll recall, at the end of last month, Florida really added some unconstitutional icing on the unconstitutional cake by exempting Disney (and any other company that owned a theme park in Florida) from the bills social med...

This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech. On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that—in a first for state law—regulates how social media companies can moderate online speech. Under the Stop Social Media Censorship Act—which experts have already pointed out is likel...

Mon, May 17th 2021 12:06pm — Mike Masnick Its better than nothing -- especially given that Biden has been so vocal against Section 230 -- but last week, Biden rescinded Trumps ridiculous executive order about Section 230. As you may recall, almost exactly a year ago, Trump issued an absolutely insane executive order demanding the FCC reinterpret Section 230. As we noted at the time, this made no sense, as 230 was written with the explicit admonition that the point was to keep the FCC out of ...

Facebook recently announced its decision to keep Donald Trump banned -- a decision supported by its new oversight board. That decision...