Internet

The ‘Protect the Children’ Internet Crackdown Is a Trap

The Supreme Court just refused to block Texas’s app store age verification law. While partisan hacks cheer for protecting minors, they’re ignoring the terrifying reality: they just built a permanent surveillance infrastructure. This mechanism will inevitably be repurposed to restrict any content undesirable to whoever holds power, dismantling the open internet.

The Offline Internet Nobody’s Talking About

The Sneakerweb turns USB drives into an offline, decentralized network β€” a modern-day samizdat for the surveillance age. But its real challenge isn’t technical; it’s sociological. To spread, it demands a scarce resource: trust between strangers. In a world shaped by Stuxnet and digital paranoia, that trust might be the hardest thing to transfer.