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Each year during Sunshine Week (March 13-19), The Foilies serve up tongue-in-cheek “awards” for government agencies and assorted institutions that stand in the way of access to information. The Electronic
Nationalists and libertarians should admit their shortcomings on Big Tech Print this article Some libertarians argue that social media companies are private and therefore can suppress any speech they please. In normal free market environments, in which competitors could challenge them, this would be true and simple enough. But Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas this week explained the problem with this line of thinking as it pertains to Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon. "A person always could choose to avoid the toll bridge or train and instead swim the Charles River or hike the Oreg...
Reporters' phone records. he has until july 12 to come up with recommendations for the president. >>alisyn: is anyone else appreciating this meeting he's holding with media representatives about how to have greater transparency and work better with off the record? >>steve: they did change the terms. >>alisyn: fine. their first instinct was we're going to have off-the-record meetings about how to have a better relationship and have more media transparency which is why fox news set it up as well as "the new york times," as you said. there was an act -- it was suggested in 2007 that would have he...
That's a bad, bad direction for technology area. >> what happens, to the promises, monica, let me get your take on it, the promises of media transparency, or promises to the media this is going be to be the most transparent administration. >> we haven't seen that at all in two and a half years, why start now, jon? also, i think a big part of what's missing from the coverage, the idea this is what happens when the government intervenes from the private sector, works the market and the government tried to take a loser in this case and make it into a winner and i'd like to see more coverage of th...