research Maybe sexting wasn't quite the crisis they warned us about Andrea James

coronavirus Amazon and eBay punished coronavirus price-gougers by making it harder for the rest of us to get hand sanitizer Thom Dunn

privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow

drugs A sober look at kratom, a psychoactive plant that has many claimed benefits, and has also inspired a moral panic Cory Doctorow

language Codifying "Boomerspeak" and debating the ethics of poking fun at it Cory Doctorow

Bad words YouTube demonetizing videos where LGBTQ keywords are said Rob Beschizza

law Important legal victory in web-scraping case Cory Doctorow

art Gallery of Hong Kong protest art: #BeWater Cory Doctorow

toilets Town to install public toilets with anti-sex systems David Pescovitz

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

Kids Satanic Panic 2.0: The Momo Challenge hoax [TW: Self-harm/suicide] Cory Doctorow

reefer madness Malcolm Gladwell wrote a flawed weed moral panic piece for The New Yorker Mark Frauenfelder

fake news Kate Hudson’s stripper pole, money-hungry Duchess Meghan, and Bruce Springsteen’s fear of fans, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants Kickstarting a seminar series with Ada Palmer and me about the history of censorship and information control Cory Doctorow

Business Leaked documents reveal Google's plan to create a censored search engine for the Chinese market Cory Doctorow

censorship Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra interviewed during his 1987 obscenity trial Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants The first cyberattack took place nearly 200 years ago in France Cory Doctorow

Technology Today's scares over smartphones are largely indistinguishable from yesterday's technology-driven moral panics Cory Doctorow