The launch of Fox News remains one of the great free market stories of modern times. While conservatives had long expressed frustration with the left-wing bias that defined traditional media, Fox News met that rising frustration with reporting that incorporated a conservative view of domestic and global news that had historically been ignored by […]
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“This saga was never about TikTok’s utility or popularity but its Chinese ownership and apparent links to the Chinese Communist Party.” That’s from a recent editorial in the Washington Post, and it’s an unwitting reminder that attacks on TikTok were never about fears of China or the CCP, but were instead about protectionism for sore-loser American companies
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In his recently released memoir, Born To Be Wired, John Malone writes of attending the 1979 Western Show out in Anaheim, CA. What the TCI CEO witnessed fascinated him, but also terrified him. It was a proliferation of television stations sprouting up to meet the needs of a still small, but growing cable TV subscriber
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The warning from Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) was blunt: “China’s control of TikTok poses one of the greatest threats to Americans’ health, privacy, and safety. Our kids and grandkids are particularly vulnerable to falling under the manipulation of the Chinese Communist Party…” Continue reading at The Washington Post.
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Temu is a low-cost online marketplace that has had the temerity to achieve popularity with American buyers while also being Chinese. In response to Temu’s achievements in the world’s most competitive consumer market, Nebraska attorney general Mike Hilgers has filed a complaint that Temu installs “malware” of some kind that gives the company access
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Right and Left, Republicans and Democrats brought great shame on themselves with their efforts to ban TikTok. Pizza Hut crystalizes the previous truth. But before discussing Pizza Hut, it should be said that free speech means freedom to access any and all information that informs that speech. Which means efforts to ban TikTok on
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Ten days ago the shares of Nvidia corrected 17 percent. How could this have happened to such an “owned” and analyzed company? The answer, at least as of now, is that surprise over inexpensively trained and very capable DeepSeek forced investors to at least rethink Nvidia’s long-term dominance. The news on January 26th gave investors
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“We have access to information that you don’t have.” That’s one way Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (1916-2009) explained a Vietnam War that not everyone supported. The recently passed writer and cartoonist Jules Feiffer quipped at the time that McNamara’s explanation reminded him of his “mother’s answer when I asked her to give me
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Writing about antitrust law recently, the excellent Holman Jenkins observed that “At best it’s a criminal waste of talent. At worst, it’s deeply worrisome that any law school graduate aspires to participate in an intellectually corrupt shakedown machine that exists primarily to keep itself employed.” Would it that more would apply Jenkins’s antitrust analysis to
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“Congress Didn’t Ban TikTok.” That’s the title of Mike Gallagher’s latest column in the Wall Street Journal. The former congressman from Wisconsin is correct that Congress didn’t ban TikTok, it’s doing much worse: Congress is attempting a taking of TikTok. How we know the above to be true can be found in Gallagher’s column. He writes that “through TikTok,
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