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Too Much Power Lies in Tech Companies’ Hands

by Stephen Carter | Aug 27, 2017 | Opinion

The Daily Stormer is finally off the internet. Well, the public internet anyway. Earlier this week, the hate-spewing white supremacist site lost its domain name registration when it was kicked off first GoDaddy and then Google for violating terms of its contracts....

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The Supreme Court Is the Last Leakproof Institution

by Stephen Carter | Jul 2, 2017 | Opinion

With another term of the US Supreme Court behind us, full of decisions both predictable and surprising, perhaps we should take a moment to consider a question very much of the moment: Why doesn’t the court leak? The rest of Washington has reached the point where...

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We are no longer entirely human.
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Privacy is the Price We Pay for Our Internet Lives

by Stephen Carter | Apr 5, 2017 | Opinion

President Donald Trump is poised to sign legislation to overturn Federal Communications Commission rules forbidding internet service providers from selling data they have vacuumed up about the online habits of their customers. Privacy groups are understandably...

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Here’s What’s Going to Happen in 2017

by Stephen Carter | Jan 3, 2017 | Opinion

Earlier this week I reviewed my predictions for 2016, many of which came true and many of which (particularly about politics) … did not. It’s time to try again. Here are a baker’s dozen of predictions for 2017, on a mix of serious subjects and light ones. I have...