Reason: Beware censorship by proxy: “Just as one effective end-run around the Fourth Amendment is to ask private companies for data they slurped up on their own, the First Amendment can be sidestepped when officials pressure the private sector into self-censorship. The end result can be rules more restrictive than the companies would impose on their own—and more intrusive than the government could get away with if it tried to impose them directly.”
Washington Post: How the FBI uses the Freedom of Information Act to track down whistleblowers
City Lab: The evolution of domestic spying since MLK in Memphis
Independent: Is YouTube spying on your children? FTC complaint warns of improper data collection
Bloomberg: America’s virtual border wall is a 1,954-mile-long money pit
The Federalist: How eradicating bad bots can quickly mutate into cracking down on free humans
Variety: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak deactivates Facebook account over privacy concerns
Mises: What makes AI dangerous? The State.
Techdirt: FBI is using classified tools for regular investigations and that’s going to end up hurting everyone
LA Times: Trump’s impulsive, falsehood-laden call to militarize the U.S.-Mexico border
Volokh: Wells Fargo resists union threats aimed at getting it to drop gun manufacturer clients
