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From Book Bans To Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control The Whole State’s Access To The Internet
If you’ve read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more str...

Here We Go Again: German Courts Reopen The “Is Ad Blocking Copyright Infringement?” Nonsense We Thought We’d Put To Bed
It’s no secret that most publishers (though not us!) hate ad blockers. The idea that ad blockers are illegal or “an attack on free speech” get trotted out every so often, and they’re always si...

Trump Admin Goes Full McCarthy, Will Decide Whether Migrants Are Pro-USA Enough To Stay Here
This was pretty much inevitable. While the Trump’s band of bigots struggled mightily to expel brown people from this country, the rest of his sycophants are doing everything they can to prevent non-...

YouTube TV, Fox Play Carriage Dispute Chicken Right Before The NFL Season Starts
One of the more frustrating things about content streaming has been how quickly we went from having a conversation about cord-cutting to the realization that all of the streaming services that enabled...