Jonathan Walker
Jonathan loves talking politics, economics and philosophy. He carries unique perspectives on everything making him a rather odd mix of liberal-conservative with a streak of independent Austrian thought.
Apple Censors Anti-LGBT Apps in the US and Pro-LGBT Apps in China
A new report published jointly by Fight for the Future and GreatFire revealed that 27 apps that exclusively catered to the LGBT community were removed from Apple’s App Store in China. The App Store in...
First Amendment Experts Suggest ‘Carrier Regulation Strategy’ for Countering Big Tech Censorship
On June 11, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy hosted a panel of nationally recognized experts on the First Amendment. The group included Jed Rubefeld, a professor at Yale Law School, Eugene Volokh,...
Suspected Chinese Spies Being Investigated After Traveling to US Ahead of COVID-19 Shutdown
Investigations are being conducted on suspected Chinese spies carrying work and student visas who returned to the U.S. at the start of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. On June 15th, The Washington Free Beacon...
Malware Mayhem: 26 Million User Information Credentials Stolen from Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google and Apple
Yet another major online security breach was revealed on Wednesday, June 9. An unknown malware application reportedly collected the private login information of over 3.2 million Windows PCs over the span of two years. Apple,...
$400 Billion in Unemployment Benefits Missing, Crime Syndicates Profiting From Pandemic
According to experts, hundreds of billions of dollars in unemployment benefits distributed by the federal government to those affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may have been diverted to criminal syndicates. The temporary...
Fastly Takes Down Major Online Players in Hour-Long Outage
Internet users worldwide witnessed a massive temporary outage of high-volume traffic sites like Hulu, The New York Times, and Amazon on Tuesday. Online news sites such as Bloomberg News, CNN, the Financial Times, and The...
Google Accused of Tracking Users Despite Disabled Location Tracking Feature
In a press release on Monday from Attorney General Mark Brnovich, the state of Arizona filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the tech giant illegally collected location data from smartphone users. Google reportedly violated...
French Regulator Fines Google Nearly $270 Million for Unfair Advertising Practices
Google was fined 220 million Euros (268 million US dollars) on Monday, June 7 by France’s Competition Authority (Autorite de la concurrence) for unfair online advertising practices. The head of the administrative authority, Isabelle de...
Chinese Authorities Deploy Emotion Detection Technology in Xinjiang: BBC
Communist China has tested a camera system on Uyghurs that combines AI with facial recognition to identify the emotions of an individual, as reported by BBC. A software engineer who installed such systems in the...
Black Community Leader Launches Organization to Fight Critical Race Theory
Kendall Qualls, a former U.S. army officer who worked in Fortune 100 healthcare companies, has spoken out against Critical Race Theory (CRT), which he says pits black people against other races. Qualls is the founder...
Texas Governor Announces Disaster Declaration, Migrant Crime and Costs Burden Economy
Greg Abbott, the Republican Governor of Texas, has issued a disaster declaration as his state grapples with a flood of migrants. In a statement issued on June 1, Abbott blamed President Joe Biden’s open-border policies...
DeSantis Fights Against Vaccine Passport Requirement for Cruises
Florida Governor Republican Ron DeSantis has confirmed that his state will not allow businesses to use COVID-19 vaccine passports to discriminate against citizens. Some cruise companies have embraced vaccine passports, citing the U.S. Centers for...