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  • Facebook Hearings Reveal How Government Regulations Work

    Facebook Hearings Reveal How Government Regulations Work0

    A commentator on Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the Senate observed that the event seemed like a 5-hour tech-support call. Truth. If you have ever had to do tech support, you know the way it happens. The user is hopeless, frustrated, and essentially ignorant of the product. That’s the Senate. The support employee tries to organize

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  • Facebook Flags, Censors NPR Report on Inflated Government School Shooting Statistics

    Facebook Flags, Censors NPR Report on Inflated Government School Shooting Statistics0

    Earlier this week, NPR reported on the high number of school shootings alleged by the U.S. Department of Education. The 240 school shootings detailed in the department’s report on the 2015-2016 school year was significantly higher than other estimates. So NPR, with the assistance of the non-profit group Child Trends, began doing what good journalists do: they collected

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  • Facebook Fascism and the Slippery Slope to Tyranny

    Facebook Fascism and the Slippery Slope to Tyranny0

    Following the recent attack on a mosque in New Zealand by a white supremacist terrorist, I was asked by a national TV network in the UK to appear on a live show to give my perspective as a former white supremacist. (I served two prison sentences for “inciting racial hatred” back in the 1980s.) I

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  • Facebook ‘Whistleblower’ Blows Off the Real Scandal

    Facebook ‘Whistleblower’ Blows Off the Real Scandal0

    Stop the presses: Facebook seeks to maximize profits. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, appeared on “60 Minutes,” where she slammed Facebook, a publicly owned corporation, for “optimizing for content that gets engagement.” In other words, FB tries to keep users on its platform as long as possible to make money, something that a publicly

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  • Fabricating Hate Crimes Is a Byproduct of Victimhood Ideology on College Campuses

    Fabricating Hate Crimes Is a Byproduct of Victimhood Ideology on College Campuses0

    Anna Ayers, a student government leader at Ohio University, reported finding threatening messages in the drawer of her desk a few weeks ago. Ayers, an LGBT student, said the three notes were “hateful, harassing,” according to The Post Athens, a student-run news outlet, and made specific attacks on her sexual identity. “Senate will never be the same

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  • Eyes Wide Open: Seeing Liberty

    Eyes Wide Open: Seeing Liberty0

    In Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy raises a number of philosophical questions regarding the self and why we know so little about ourselves. He also invites readers to participate in a number of “Thought Experiments.” In a chapter on “Why the Self is the only Object in the Cosmos which Gets Bored,”

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