Being against the nonprofit online encyclopedia Wikipedia is like being against NPR, used book stores, frozen Snickers bars, rainbow-striped over-the-knee toe socks, and the Muppets. So it would stand to reason that threatening to do harm to the free, near-fathomless…
When it comes to the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA), will U.S. Senator Ron Wyden be the internet’s Little Dutch Boy, saving the day by plugging a leaky legislative dike? Or will Wyden’s latest efforts against the…
The Front Page Confidential break room has no Keurig, and we’ve never considered purchasing one. We did, however, engage in a thought experiment this past weekend: Would buying a Keurig and then smashing it be a pro-Roy Moore statement or…
When Donald Trump calls someone “wacky & totally unhinged” on Twitter, that’s practically a badge of honor in certain circles. Progressive California moneybags Tom Steyer earned the insult the old-fashioned way: by spending $10 million of his estimated $1.6 billion fortune…
Following a week in a Zimbabwe prison infamous for its squalor, a 25-year-old American activist jailed for Twitter-bashing doddering dictator Robert Mugabe, is free on bail. During a November 9 hearing in the Zimbabwe capital of Harare, High Court Judge Clement Phiri…
As if the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department didn’t already suffer from an egregious-enough image problem, we have a report from the city’s weekly Riverfront Times about a cop who unleashed a profanity-laced tirade upon a law-abiding (albeit horn-honking) citizen. Bonus:…
If heckling fails, hit ’em where it really hurts: the wallet. As Reason.com reports, that’s the strategy of the Columbia University Black Students’ Organization (BSO), which aims to silence the school’s College Republicans chapter and stop them from inviting squawkers of…
One thing you can say about the Internet Association, which reps such tech-industry giants as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter: It ain’t Captain Smith on the Titanic. In other words, it isn’t going down with the ship. At least not willingly. On…
If you need another reason to be thankful for the First Amendment, look no further than the tale of Martha O’Donovan, a 25-year-old American journalist and activist recently jailed in Zimbabwe for allegedly insulting that nation’s corrupt dictator on Twitter….
Technology law expert Eric Goldman, one of the most ardent foes of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA), explained in a recent interview with FrontPage Confidential that he now believes Congressional passage of SESTA is as inevitable as…
