technology
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Arguing against Originalism Badly
Noura Karazivan’s flawed argument against using originalism to understand constitutional structure Continue reading
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Platonic Guardians 2.0?
The New York Times has published an essay by Eric Schmidt, the Chairman of Google, about the role of the Internet, and especially, of the exchange of ideas and information that the Internet enables, in both contributing to and addressing the challenges the world faces. The essay is thoroughly upbeat, concluding that it is “within Continue reading
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A Forecast on Suing the Weatherman
First of all, apologies for my disappearance. The last two weeks have been hectic, and I have been most neglectful of the blogging duties. I hope to resume them now. My first comeback post will be a lighthearted one though. The New York Times Magazine has an entertaining piece―actually, an adaption of a excerpt from a Continue reading
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Google, Speaker and Censor
Some recent stories highlight Google’s ambiguous role as provider and manager of content, which, from a free-speech perspective, puts at it at once in the shoes of both a speaker potentially subject to censorship and an agent of the censors. The first of these is an interesting exchange between Eugene Volokh, of UCLA and the Continue reading
Double Aspect 