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Cori Bush and Donald Trump Both Just Say No to TikTok Ban

1 month 3 weeks ago
Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-St. Louis) doesn't often agree with former President Donald Trump, but they currently find themselves aligned on at least one issue: TikTok. This morning, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would force the social media app's parent company, the China-based ByteDance, to either spin TikTok into its own entity with a non-Chinese owner or have the app banned in the United States. The bill passed 352 to 65 with broad support from both sides.
Ryan Krull

MSCHF Asks The Supreme Court To Say Its Parody Of Vans Shoes Is Free Speech

1 month 3 weeks ago
The last time we wrote about an interaction between the Supreme Court and the famed art collective/pranksters/social commentators/cultural marketing jammers MSCHF, it was covering their interesting choice of amicus briefs. They sought to comment on the “Bad Spaniels” case by making the Justices and their clerks complete “connect the dot” artwork as an attempt to […]
Mike Masnick

Housekeeping update

1 month 3 weeks ago
Comments are back up! Apparently some kind of noaccess code got mysteriously added to the site, but Bluehost deleted it and now everything is fine.
Kevin Drum

WTO, RIP

1 month 3 weeks ago
Today on TAP: The annual World Trade Organization meeting came to an ignominious end last week with no ‘progress’ on major issues. That is a form of progress.
Robert Kuttner