China Halts Location Tracking App as Covid Restrictions Fall
HONG KONG—China is pulling the plug on a nationwide mobile tracking app that collects data on…
The Tech Censors Return - WSJ
Do we need hall monitors? Last week
Elon Musk
released the “Twitter Files,”…
Microsoft’s Activision-Blizzard Acquisition Is Good for Gamers
The Federal Trade Commission reportedly plans to sue Microsoft to stop our proposed acquisition of…
Three Arrests, Two Superpowers and a Secret Prisoner Swap
4:30 a.m., Sept. 25, 2021, Tianjin, China
A pair of prison vans approached the terminal at Tianjin…
A Plan X for Elon Musk’s Twitter
Assuming
Elon Musk
goes through with his takeover of
Twitter,
he’ll…
Chinese Internet Users Lose Access to WeChat App After Beijing Protest
Chinese censors are crippling access to the country’s do-everything app for some users as part of…
Turkey’s New Media Law Criticized by Free-Speech Advocates
ISTANBUL—Turkey’s parliament passed a law criminalizing the spread of alleged disinformation and…
Transparency for Thee, but Not for the SEC
Government hypocrisy was on full display recently when the Securities and Exchange Commission fined…
Big Tech Is the West’s Surprise Weapon in Competition With Russia, China
In February, Ukraine passed a law allowing private cloud providers to host government data outside…