This is actually great. Let the people who want a sex-free, LGBTQ-free internet purchase it for themselves and leave the wider internet alone! reason.com/2026/05/13/w...

‘Let people who want a G-rated internet purchase it for themselves and leave the wider internet alone.’ @enbrown.bsky.social celebrates the free market & choice. Live your life as you please & let others live theirs as they like, without harming others. Crazy. reason.com/2026/05/13/w...

Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.

EU regulators call VPNs "a loophole that needs closing," as more people use them to get around their poorly designed age-verification laws. Their solution? Age-verification for VPN use.

I got to write for @reason.com about children's book author/illustrator Richard Scarry! We're currently on a big Busytown kick in the Brown/ @swin24.bsky.social house... reason.com/2026/05/05/t...

ChatGPT didn't "advise" the FSU shooter last year to do anything — except get professional help for depressive and suicidal thoughts. Otherwise, it provided neutral information. OpenAI should not be liable for the shooter's actions reason.com/2026/05/11/d...

this AI slop has the Lincoln Memorial backwards and tripled the width of the reflecting pool

“The bar argued that simply because the women were Asian, they had no way of knowing if they were SWs or not.”

Really important book from @reitman.bsky.social on how banks, credit cards & payment processors are chilling & censoring speech It makes very clear that this isn’t just the “whim” of financial institutions but comes from pressure—direct & indirect—from government reason.com/2026/04/29/b...

What witnesses? What documents? Comey's obviously not going to say it was a violent threat. The term itself is used all the time in contexts where it clearly means "get rid of" without any connotation of killing or violence. It's hard to imagine what kind of evidence they could possibly produce.

this is an elite joke. joke of the year nominee IMO

A social media ban for Canadian kids sounds protective. But it won't work. Australia's own regulator found 70% of under-16s retained access 3 months after its ban, with no reduction in cyberbullying. My post on why a ban causes more harm than good. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/the-...

It started with porn. In a time-honored tradition, politicians started acclimating people to a massive and intrusive new regulatory scheme by promising that it was just going to target sexually oriented material. But, of course, it was never going to stop there.

We made the internet corporate and tidy and safe and fairly full of real names, and it wasn't enough for these people.

"You're patting your own back for solving fabricated issues based on your own sexist, racist ideas, and Asian massage workers are paying the price," said Lee Chen at an April 20 rally outside of the King County Jail.

sex trafficking or ... code violations? once again, police can't tell until after they raid a bunch of immigrant-owned business, seize workers' money, and take away their jobs reason.com/2026/04/27/a...

Is there a polymarket position on "drops big net from the ceiling to capture nation's journalists" because I have a dollar

Not only verify age, but store your exact birthdate in the OS and provide it to every application on the device.

Looking forward to having my identity stolen multiple times over. Great job everyone.

A new age-verification bill could make you show ID to use a computer or smartphone reason.com/2026/04/22/a...

oh great now where am I supposed to get my world’s biggest condoms

The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.

If they’re around the same price, I will always buy hardcover. I didn’t know that was weird? I like the feel of it while reading better, and the ability to remove the cover if it’s too ugly

I wrote about that Palantir tweet reason.com/2026/04/20/t...

An Ohio school district made a teacher take down a "Hate Has No Home Here" poster because they said it violated a state law against teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity without parental permission reason.com/2026/04/15/a...

"What's jury duty?" — my 2-year-old "Something mama has to go do today." "Is it yucky?" "Yeah." "Mmm. (Long pause) Probably a crane built it."

lol wtf TikTok? Logged in for the first time in months and here's my "you might like"

Consensual activity among adults (in private settings) should be legal. 'Minneapolis...is considering a proposal to bring back bathhouses where people can have sex...provoking a wider conversation around stigma, criminalization, and community' New from @enbrown.bsky.social reason.com/2026/04/08/m...

496 training hours to be a Louisiana cop 336 training hours to be an ICE agent 150 training hours to be an EMT … 600 training hours to braid hair?! youtube.com/shorts/qZqmK...

We generally revel in the kid stuff we get to re-experience with our kids but… jfc Disney on Ice was excruciating

We've had universal birthright citizenship for 127 years. If that's a "suicide pact," it's a hell of a slow suicide.

Frank is appalled and would like humans to please get their shit together.

everything here is right; the framing of this as some kind of scandal not only raises privacy concerns but it diminishes the impact of exposing the many, many real-ass scandals involving this administration

"There is plenty of legitimate fodder for criticism in Kristi Noem's record. No one needs to go digging into her husband's sex life for fuel... The Noems have enough to answer for. Let's not let a pair of balloon tits distract us from that."

OK, I’m sorry, but you know I had to write a “don’t kink shame Bryon Noem” post reason.com/2026/04/01/t...

Everyone’s got a human trafficking vigilante complex these days (even Canadians!) youtube.com/shorts/3qyTr...

Two thoughts about this: • This almost certainly does not win him points with any justice, and, if anything, will be seen as a negative. • Because that is so clear, I almost think this is a move because the Trump admin knows this is a legal loser, so they best they can do is some politics.

This may be one of those cases where the right legal result protects unsavory people. In the long run, and especially in the current political environment, I can see this actually being a useful bulwark against efforts to restrict gender-affirming care.

An outrageous miscarriage of justice, and a very dangerous precedent Advocating ideas or practices that people willingly sign on to should not count as human trafficking, even if those people later regret their participation reason.com/2026/03/30/o...

To suggest Facebook isn't safe because they, let's say, amplify disordered eating content requires a subjecting judgment call about whether eating disorder content is safe or unsafe. And when the government declares certain kinds of content and publishing methods safe/unsafe, that's censorship.

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

Lolllll. I love this industry.

People always assume content moderation is easy. Remove the bad stuff. Keep the good stuff. The reality is that it's all a series of tradeoffs where every decision has problems, and the decisions *you* think are obvious, often turn out to have really negative consequences.

“For those underage or who have not confirmed their age, Apple will turn on Web Content Filter and Communication Safety, which will not only restrict access to certain apps or websites, but will also monitor messages, shared photo albums, AirDrop, and FaceTime calls for nudity.”

The perfect angle to make it look like I have blue horns coming out of my head.

The social media “addiction” verdict against Meta & Google is good news for personal injury lawyers and government censors but bad news for the rest of us reason.com/2026/03/26/a...

ugh. www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Meta ruling is bad, no matter how much you dislike Meta or how much New Mexico tries to pretend this is about "product design" This is an attempt to get around Section 230 (and 1A) protections, hold platforms liable for user speech, implement universal age verification, and end encrypted DMs

We could just scrap TSA and go back to having airports & airlines be responsible for their own security. We wouldn’t have this chaos when there’s a government funding gap, and as a nice perk we’d ditch a lot of time-consuming theater that adds little meaningful security benefit.