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With Wednesday’s oral argument in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, the U.S. Supreme Court is now set to possibly reconsider its jurisprudence on online age verification. Reading the tea leaves is hard, but the oral arguments do seem to suggest that there is broad agreement that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals got the … Will the Supreme Court Change Its Mind About Age Verification?
In a video posted to Instagram earlier this week, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced “major changes” to Facebook and Instagram’s content-moderation policies and operations. Zuckerberg highlighted the importance of allowing private market actors to decide the best way to balance the speech interests of their users. As we move into a new administration, one … Meta’s Announcement: The Return of Online Free Speech?
The early data from New York City’s congestion-pricing experiment is rolling in. If you look at affected routes, you see a clear drop when the fee kicks in. For routes that are unaffected, we saw no change. So far, it seems the basic prediction from supply and demand holds true. When the price of driving into Manhattan is raised, … Congestion Pricing Reduces Driving. That Doesn’t Make It a Good Idea.
