Brasil só perde para a Venezuela em parcialidade da Justiça, mostra estudo
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Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
A global spy tool exposed the locations of billions of people to anyone willing to pay. A Catholic group bought location data about gay dating app users in an effort to out gay priests. A location data broker sold lists of people who attended political protests. What do these privacy violations have in common? They share a source of data that’s shockingly pervasive and unregulated: the technology powering nearly every ad you see online. Each time you see […]
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Body cam shows officers walk away from man found shot, still breathing: ‘Let’s cruise around and come back’
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Tweet Arnold Kling ponders the consequences of the rise of FOOL – the Fear Of Others’ Liberty. A slice: Although ordinary people can be FOOLs, I believe that the bigger danger comes from elites behaving like FOOLs. Putting out regulations against gas stoves is an idea that originates with elites. Politicians often compete for votes by stoking fear. Fear of being cheated in commerce. Fear of health problems. Fear of economic adversity. Fear of foreigners. Fear of terrorism. […]
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Malaysia: Stop silencing discourse on police accountability
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Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target
There is a plausible theory of the case for the dramatic rise in illiberal, speech-stultifying wokeness in America beginning a dozen or so years ago: that it’s largely a bottom-up, millennial affair. “In late 2013,” Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), explained in Reason‘s January 2022 issue, “there was an explosion in censorship that was student-led….The generation hitting campuses in 2013 had been educated by the graduates of…activist education schools. In some […]
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Kentucky Cops Arrest Man for Shouting at Them
A Kentucky man is suing the police, claiming he was arrested in retaliation for shouting at a group of officers from an apartment balcony. In a complaint filed last month, Brandon Rettig alleges that he was arrested on bogus public intoxication charges after he angered the officers, who violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights. According to the lawsuit, on June 8, 2024, Brandon Rettig was at his girlfriend’s apartment in Newport, Kentucky, when a team of police […]
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Why Homelessness Keeps Growing
Ryan and historian Christopher Calton take a look at why homelessness is rising and why politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom are only making it worse.
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Why We Are Still Arguing About the Health Effects of Moderate Drinking
Even moderate drinking could give you cancer, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned last week. But according to a congressionally commissioned report published last month, moderate drinking is associated with reduced overall mortality. Although those findings are not as contradictory as they might seem, the dueling glosses reflect the complexities and ambiguities of epidemiology. The evidence on this subject is vast but open to interpretation, leaving ample room for spin, especially when it comes to this year’s politically fraught […]
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