Internet Governance

The Law That Tried to Kill Prediction Markets—and Failed Spectacularly

A federal judge just blocked the first state ban on prediction markets, exposing the absurdity of local regulations trying to police a borderless internet. The law isn’t just legally questionable—it’s technologically obsolete. Anyone with a VPN can bypass it in seconds. This ruling forces a reckoning: will regulators adapt to the digital reality, or keep pretending state lines matter online?

The NSA Doesn’t Need Backdoors. That’s The Lie You Keep Believing.

Everyone’s hunting for NSA backdoors in cryptographic code. They’re looking in the wrong place. The real threat isn’t a hidden vulnerability — it’s procedural influence. The NSA doesn’t need to break your encryption when they can help design the standards that define what ‘secure’ means. Every VPN, every encrypted message, every HTTPS connection depends on protocols shaped in rooms where the world’s most powerful surveillance agency holds a seat.