HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Five TikTok content creators have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Montana’s first-in-the-nation ban on the video sharing app, arguing the law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech rights. The Montana residents also argued in the complaint,… Read More ›
Politics
“There was no Alternative?”
It remains perplexing to know that certain Liberal Capitalist Factions have been maintaining an unhealthy obsession with treating the Market as some quantitative, mechanistic and automated contraption. Removing Parliament from the Market means ensuring that this machine will generate more… Read More ›
Did the Soviet Union allow Business Entrepreneurship?
How did a country that despised private trade and private ownership manage to provide millions of people with everything they needed? Is it true that private business as such did not exist in the USSR? So, who, then, was behind… Read More ›
Scenario 1999: Hamiltonianism in Words, Jeffersonianism in Deeds (Pt. I of III)
There is a massive difference between adhering to the Weltanschauung of Hamiltonianism and coopting certain aspects of Hamiltonianism in order to realize the foundational aims of an entirely different Weltanschauung. Consider Hamiltonianism’s stances on international trade for instance. America is… Read More ›
Critique of “Christian Nationalism”
Hamiltonianism’s stances on religion in America deserve mention at a period in US history where it is tenable to speak of a so-called “Christian Nationalism” on the American Right. Since the ratification of the Constitution, the need for a newfound… Read More ›
On Likelihood of Recession in Early 2020s
There continues to be a lot of talk over whether a new Recession is going to occur or not. The rhetoric has not subsided in the two years since I began creating large-scale contributions to The Fourth Estate. For those… Read More ›
“The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet” by Adi Robertson — Technopreneurph
There’s cause for alarm with TikTok — but is it enough to justify building America’s own Great Firewall? Back in the ancient days of July 2009, I was in Harbin, in Heilongjiang province, when the Chinese government banned Facebook and Twitter…. Read More ›
France bans ‘recreational’ use of TikTok, Twitter, Instagram — ByoViral
France has banned “recreational” use of social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, amid concerns that such apps are littered with “degrading” content. The move comes as a Representative from the French Culture Ministry warned that such apps… Read More ›
Analysis: Coal returns to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor — A greener life, a greener world
Progress towards the construction of a China-funded coal power plant in Gwadar raises questions about the climate pledges of both China and Pakistan. News that the Pakistan government plans to secure financing and start construction on a long-stalled 300-megawatt coal-fired power… Read More ›
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