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Back the Libra with Gold, Says Steve Forbes 0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page
- June 26, 2019
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Facebook’s Libra – a stablecoin that could offer a serious challenge to the money and banking status quo – will likely be very good for mainstream acceptance of blockchain technology as an infrastructure of a global privately produced currency. It could become a genuine challenge to the whole idea of nation-state money as
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Remember the Good that Social Media has Achieved 0
- Front Page, Political Opinion, Tech Freedom
- June 19, 2019
By Alexandra Hudson It’s the popular and fashionable thing to do these days — on both the political Left and Right — to name, shame, and blame the social media giants for the death of American democracy. The Left, still smarting from Donald Trump’s stunning victory in 2016, emphasizes the way in which social media
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Is Facebook’s Libra the Dollar’s Killer App?0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page, Headline News
- June 15, 2019
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Facebook changed the way we communicate, interact, and gather information. You don’t have to love all the results. But the reality of the shift in our lives is undeniable. Will Facebook’s new initiative to create a cryptocurrency do the same for money and payment systems? Most likely no, but the creation
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Sen. Hawley’s Moral Panic Over Social Media 0
- Front Page, Tech Freedom
- May 28, 2019
In a hotly-worded USA Today op-ed last week, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) railed against social media sites Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He argued that, “social media wastes our time and resources,” and is “a field of little productive value” that have only “given us an addiction economy.” Sen. Hawley refers to these sites as “parasites” and blames
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The Solution to Social Media Censorship Is Simple 0
- Front Page, Political Correctness, Political Opinion, Tech Freedom
- May 21, 2019
Individuals from all corners of the political spectrum have been stirred up by the recent bans of various figures including Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan. Some have praised these bans for providing good constraints on what they deem “fake news” or “hate speech.” Others have attacked these bans for being influenced by nefarious motives that
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Conservatives Wrestle Over How To Wallop Big Tech As Facebook Conducts Major Content Purge 0
- Front Page, Political Correctness, Tech Freedom
- May 6, 2019
Chris White Republish Reprint Conservatives are brainstorming ways to ding big tech companies amid reports that Facebook is teeing off on right-wing pundits. There’s an internal fight brewing among conservatives about how to bring Facebook and Twitter to heel following reports that big tech companies are banning online activists. Some of the ideas Sen. Ted
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