The Economist: Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West?
Reason: Supreme Court rules 8-1 against warrantless police search in important Fourth Amendment case
CNBC: How a Pentagon contract became an identity crisis for Google
BoingBoing: Leaked memos reveal the deep divisions within Google over Pentagon contract
Engadget: Google search showed ‘Nazism’ as California Republican Party ideology
Motherboard: ‘Techsploitation’ demonstrators blocked Google and Apple buses with scooters
National Review: The carnivores of civil liberties: “Liberalism rode high during the Watergate era. It had demanded that civil liberties be protected from the illegal or unconstitutional overreach of the Nixon-era FBI, CIA, and other agencies. Liberals alleged that out-of-control officials had spied on U.S. citizens for political purposes and then tried to mask their wrongdoing under the cover of “national security” or institutional “professionalism.”
All those legacies are now eroding. The Democratic party, the investigative media, and liberalism itself are now weirdly on the side of the reactionary administrative state. They have either downplayed or excused Watergate-like abuses of power by the former Barack Obama administration.”
