No, We Don't Live In A F%#*ing Simulation
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David McNeill and Emily Tucker write about the fact that we do not live in a simulation, and why it sometimes feels like we do.
In his latest for Tech Policy Press, David makes quick work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Antonin Scalia, Cass Sunstein, Peter Thiel, Olaf Scholz, the ACLU, Curtis Yarvin, and the "free speech" orthodoxies with which democracy has been bullied for generations.
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Rethinking Speech Rights in the Era of Corporate Information Control | TechPolicy.Press
We need to return to an essentially democratic, political conception of the constitutional right to free speech, David McNeill writes.
www.techpolicy.press
July 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In his latest for Tech Policy Press, David makes quick work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Antonin Scalia, Cass Sunstein, Peter Thiel, Olaf Scholz, the ACLU, Curtis Yarvin, and the "free speech" orthodoxies with which democracy has been bullied for generations.
www.techpolicy.press/rethinking-s...
www.techpolicy.press/rethinking-s...
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“What we have now is the federal government has essentially unleashed an anonymized, militarized police force on its own people, and people are doing the most basic things they can think of to try to take back some sense of agency and security.” - Emily Tucker, Center on Privacy & Technology
The online activists trying to stop ICE from making arrests
The Trump administration claims sites tracking immigration officers are putting law enforcement at risk. The creators say they’re helping shield people from a modern-day “Gestapo.”
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July 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
“What we have now is the federal government has essentially unleashed an anonymized, militarized police force on its own people, and people are doing the most basic things they can think of to try to take back some sense of agency and security.” - Emily Tucker, Center on Privacy & Technology
