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This Week In Techdirt History: July 7th โ€“ 13th

1 year 3 months ago
Five Years Ago This week in 2019, we wrote about how getting rid of Section 230 would just strengthen the internet giants, the dangers of forthcoming deep fake legislation, and why thinking of privacy as a property right would end badly. We looked at the backwards approach of the UK’s online harms legislation, while UK […]
Leigh Beadon

American cities are not unusually expensive

1 year 3 months ago
I don't know for sure how accurate this is—it's crowdsourced—but it seems to match other estimates of housing prices in big city centers: This is one reason I'm so skeptical of urbanist arguments about American cities being uniquely expensive due to restrictive building rules and a car-centric culture. As you can see, there's nothing really ...continue reading "American cities are not unusually expensive"
Kevin Drum

Why are conservatives such damn gold bugs?

1 year 3 months ago
The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 has gotten lots of attention lately, though it's mostly just standard movement conservative wet dreams. One interesting piece is its usual right-wing hatred of the Federal Reserve: A core problem with government control of monetary policy is its exposure to two unavoidable political pressures: pressure to print money to subsidize ...continue reading "Why are conservatives such damn gold bugs?"
Kevin Drum