Techdirt Podcast Episode 447: The Future Of Section 230

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/24/techdirt-podcast-episode-447-the-future-of-section-230/

#CATO im Grassi mit Sjaella und Julia Jentsch: #Konzertlesung für die #Widerstandskämpferin Cato Bontjes van Beek

https://www.l-iz.de/kultur/musik/2026/02/cato-im-grassi-mit-sjaella-und-julia-jentsch-konzertlesung-widerstandskampferin-cato-bontjes-van-beek-648670
#Leipzig #GrassiMuseum

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89eMWK6/

According to a report from the Cato Institute—a conservative, libertarian think tank—immigrants have contributed a net $14.5 trillion surplus to the U.S. economy over the last 30 years. That means they’ve paid more in taxes and economic output than they’ve consumed in public services.

#Immigrants #CATO #Undocumented #SocialSecurity #Medicare

Meinungen darf jeder haben und äußern - und ändern


Wenn der Vorsitzende eines großen Staates sagt, der #Klimawandel sei ein #Schwindel, dann darf er diese #Meinung haben und äußern. Blöd und gemeingefährlich wird es aber, wenn diese Meinung zur #Politik erhoben wird und andere sofort dazu motiviert, #Klimaschutz abzulehnen oder sich bewußt #klimaschädlilch zu verhalten.
Wenn es gut geht, halten andere, vor allem reichweitenstarke #Publizisten, mit #Fakten dagegen https://coveringclimatenow.org/resource/10-climate-change-myths-debunked/ .


#FreieMeinungsäußerung und #Redefreiheit sind nicht selbstverständlich.
Ein #WDR5-#Feature zeigt die Entwicklung der Redefreiheit in der modernen Geschichte https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:a49ba335be2402e4/ .

Der Name #Cato https://www.superprof.de/blog/cato-uticensis-senat/ tritt auffallend häufig auf. "Cato" im Namen gibt keine Garantie, seriöse Fakten zu verbreiten, wie vor allem am Cato Institute https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute zu erkennen ist. Dieses gehört(e) zu den Anführern der #Klimawandelleugner-Szene https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimawandelleugnung#Organisierte_Klimawandelleugnerszene .

Heimlich, still und leise wurde die klimawandelleugnende Arbeitsgruppe wohl geschlossen und die Argumentation angepaßt https://www.science.org/content/article/us-think-tank-shuts-down-prominent-center-challenged-climate-science (2019)
"Global warming is indeed real, and human activity has been a contributor since 1975."
https://www.cato.org/global-warming
"But global warming is also a very complicated and difficult issue that can provoke very unwise policy (..)
Fortunately, and contrary to much of the rhetoric surrounding climate change, there is ample time to develop such technologies, which will require substantial capital investment by individuals."

The New “Signalgate”: Kash Patel’s First Amendment Fail – Cato at Liberty Blog

January 27, 2026 2:33PM

The New “Signalgate”: Kash Patel’s First Amendment Fail

By Patrick G. Eddington

I suppose it was just a matter of time before a Trump administration official would suggest that the use of public key encryption—protected by the First Amendment—to monitor federal agent misconduct was itself allegedly a crime. 

NBC News reported on January 27 that on the Benny Johnson podcast, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the FBI was investigating the use by Minneapolis residents of the Signal encrypted messaging app as a means of allegedly impeding ICE immigration enforcement operations. This is another epic constitutional and legal fail by Patel. 

Here are some very inconvenient historical and legal facts that invalidate the legitimacy of any such “investigation” of Minneapolis anti-ICE protesters’ use of Signal or any other publicly available encryption technology:

• As a National Security Agency (NSA) history notes, many of the Founders—including but not limited to Jefferson and Madison—regularly used “codes and ciphers” (the term of art for encryption back in their day) before, during, and after the Revolution to communicate with each other. The use of encryption to keep government authorities from getting access to our private communications is literally as American as apple pie.
  
• Nearly 30 years ago, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a landmark case that “Government efforts to control encryption thus may well implicate not only the First Amendment rights of cryptographers intent on pushing the boundaries of their science, but also the constitutional rights of each of us as potential recipients of encryption’s bounty. Viewed from this perspective, the government’s efforts to retard progress in cryptography may implicate the Fourth Amendment, as well as the right to speak anonymously.”
  

That decision is why we have the phrase “code is speech,” and why apps like Signal and their use by citizens are protected by the First Amendment. And the use of that digitally encrypted speech to coordinate peaceful protest activity (like monitoring ICE for acts of brutality) is likewise First Amendment-protected activity. 

The actual criminal conduct that should be investigated is the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who likewise were engaged in First Amendment-protected activities at the moment they were fatally shot in broad daylight by ICE personnel. 

If Patel and his boss, Attorney General Pam Bondi, were actually fulfilling their constitutional oaths, they’d be doing exactly that in full cooperation with Minnesota law enforcement authorities. That they are actively stiff-arming those state authorities tells us all we need to know about the political illegitimacy of Trump’s Justice Department.

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