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Jim Jordan Weaponizes The Subcommittee On The Weaponization Of The Gov’t To Intimidate Researchers & Chill Speech by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

As soon as it was announced, we warned that the new “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” (which Kevin McCarthy agreed to support to convince some Republicans to support his speakership bid) was going to be not just a clown show, but one that would, itself, be weaponized to suppress speech (the […]

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The search element by an author
Today, March 24th 2023, the HTML specification added a new grouping content element. The search element. Please be aware that this element landing in the HTML spec today does not mean it is available in browsers today. Issues have been filed to implement the search element in the major browsers, including the necessary accessibility mappings. Keep this in mind before you get all super excited and willy nilly add this new element to your pages.
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A Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries. Here’s their full challenge.

Good for this parent. And, I hope other parents in this country follow suit.

And, sorry Rep. Ivory and other conservatives, but you opened this ball. Time to dance. And if you don’t like that your book bans have provided this giant hole, and that people are using them against your favorite sacred text, tough shit.

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Forget A TikTok Ban, We Need To Regulate Data Brokers And Pass A Real Privacy Law by Karl BodeKarl Bode

We’ve noted for a while now how the great TikTok moral panic of 2023 is largely a distraction. It’s a distraction from the fact we’ve refused to meaningfully regulate dodgy data brokers, who traffic in everything from your daily movement habits to your mental health diagnosis. And it’s a distraction from our corrupt failure to […]