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Reason magazine is a great source of libertarian thought, but it's also the home of the Volokh Conspiracy blog which, while also libertarian-leaning, nevertheless includes some decisively non-libertarian opinions. Case in point, this post by by Stewart Baker of the Cyberlaw Pocast, explaining how the EARN IT act could be used to attack so-called "end-to-end" encryption.The … [Read more...] about Let’s Not End End-to-End Encryption

As regular readers may remember, I lost my job a few months ago. I'm happy to report that I've started a new job, although I'm not saying where, because I don't want to give anyone the incorrect impression that anything here at Windypundit is being said on behalf of my employer, who have wisely not authorized me to speak for them. I do want to talk about one part of the process … [Read more...] about How Not to Notarize an I-9

Terminator: Dark Fate appears to have tanked at the box office, at least by blockbuster standards. Its quarter billion dollar world-wide gross sounds like a lot, but that's considerably less than Terminator: Genisys, which was also not well received. For some reason, the Terminator franchise doesn't seem to be working very well any more. Why is that? To try to intuit an … [Read more...] about What’s Wrong With Terminator?

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has been advocating a wealth tax for a while now, and it seems like a bad idea to me.Let's start with the Trumpian level of dishonesty in the repeated claims of supporters that Warren's wealth tax asks billionaires to pay a mere "two cents." Obviously, it's two percent -- two cents on each dollar -- and calling it "two … [Read more...] about A Wealth Tax Would be a Mess