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Why governments are threatened by teens on TikTok Liberalism and social media To understand the perils of over-regulation, we can consult the most important theorist of liberty, John Stuart Mill. In my recentbook, I present Mill as a liberal, a feminist, and a critic of state interventionism. Mill argues for almost complete freedom of expression and freedom of the press in countriescapable offree discussion and exchange of ideas. He places individuality at the center of his vision of what a person with “character” is, and he argues that there is value in nonconformism....

Updates at the foot of the post. Sites belonging to Nick Denton’s Gawker Media network have gradually receivedmajor faceliftsover the past couple of days, introducing a new style that ensures popular articles are never buried by the constant addition of fresh content. In regards to the redesign, many hate it, many love it, some couldn’t care less, we’re sure Denton couldn’t care. However, one thing that might concern its founder ever-so-slightly is the fact that not one piece of content published from any of his web properties in the last 24 hours has been crawled by Google News – in fact the last time anything from Lifehacker was indexed by Google News was two days ago....

Why haven’t we found extraterrestrial life? Maybe it’s hiding under layers of rock and ice It’s time we investigated more of our solar system’s water worlds Shields to Maximum! The search for extraterrestrial life is often confined to planets within the habitable zone surrounding stars — where temperatures are neither too hot, nor too cold for life to develop. However, water-rich moons like Jupiter’s moonEuropacould greatly expand the number of worlds on which life might develop....

New photo sharing appColorlaunched in a blaze of hype a few hours ago, but that launch was far from ideal for the product itself and may well have harmed its long-term chances. Why? Let’s take a look. Color, available now foriPhoneandAndroid, allows you to share photos only with the people in your immediate surroundings. Built around the idea of shared experiences, you could be at a concert and take a photo of the band....

In military circles, a ‘scorched earth policy’ –according to Wikipedia– is “A strategy which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through, or withdrawing from, a given theater of operations.” Perhaps it’s symbolic, but that’s exactly the approach I took to my digital presence this past Memorial Day weekend. I started a fresh new site on the future of mediaover on Tumblr. Then I promptly turned around and slashed both my TypePad-powered blog, which I ran from 2004 to 2009, and my Posterous blog, which I started with some fanfare back in 2009....