Elizabeth Nolan Brown

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Senior editor at Reason, covering sex, speech, tech, justice, prohibition & panic. Cofounder of Feminists for Liberty. Professional affiliate at the University of Cincinnati journalism school. Current lifestyle iteration: nice Midwestern mom

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Every day there's another headline about Mississippi, I think back to the time I called it a "deeply messed up place" on Twitter (I think after news broke about a vicious cop gang), and a local editor was like, "uhhh miss me with that regional privilege."

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AI was so much more interesting when it didn't exist

Sentencing for Michael Lacey and the other Backpage defendants has now been postponed from next week until the last week of August, so prosecutors can file a new pre-sentencing report

I'm sure you'll be shocked to know that Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey's pre-sentencing report is riddled with misleading statements & outright errors reason.com/wp-content/u...

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If you're in NYC, come to a screening of @reason.com's new mini-doc about the Backpage prosecution, followed by a panel chat with @nickgillespie.bsky.social & Kaytlin Bailey & me July 23, 6:30 p.m. @ Sovereign House Tickets for sale here: www.eventbrite.com/e/premiere-o...

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IANAL, but how the hell was it even a question. Shouldn't the answer have been "social media isn't the government, why are we even being asked this question"?

Not a total blow to the Texas and Florida social media laws, but still a pretty crushing Supreme Court rebuke of the idea that telling tech companies how to moderate content doesn't implicate the First Amendment reason.com/2024/07/01/s...

Social media moderation is speech, says Supreme Courtreason.com The U.S. Supreme Court is remanding these two cases for more analysis—but it made its views on some key issues clear.

sigh reason.com/2024/06/28/k...

Kamala Harris was the real winner of last night's debatereason.com Heaven help us.

I'm sure you'll be shocked to know that Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey's pre-sentencing report is riddled with misleading statements & outright errors reason.com/wp-content/u...

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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

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At last, here's the full text of the accidentally posted Supreme Court EMTALA opinion draft, via Bloomberg News assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

Assange is free, but the legacy of his prosecution will far outlast his time behind bars reason.com/2024/06/26/t...

The legacy of Assange's prosecutionreason.com The treatment of the WIkiLeaks founder serves as a warning to anyone who would so much as write about leaked information or publish classified documents.

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Meanwhile, KOSA is getting marked up tomorrow, like no big deal.

Today’s @404media.co story detailing the exposure of administrative credentials to a major social media age verification platform, potentially allowing hackers to access sensitive data such as driver’s license images, is just more evidence that age verification bills like KOSA are dangerous.

ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenseswww.404media.co As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.

"Over the first four months of 2024, the national party spent $10,350 on the bread-and-butter line item of securing ballot access while shelling out $24,807 in legal expenses." reason.com/2024/06/25/h...

How the Libertarian Party lost its wayreason.com Two years post-"takeover," some longtime activists and donors have pulled their support, claiming the Mises Caucus is running the party into the ground.

A widely cited study on weed and heart problems "commits so many egregious statistical errors that it's a poster child for junk science" reason.com/video/2024/0...

Does weed cause strokes and heart attacks?reason.com A widely cited study commits so many egregious statistical errors that it's a poster child for junk science.

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Breaking News: The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a Tennessee law that bans certain medical care for transgender minors violates the Constitution.

Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Tennessee Law Banning Transition Care for Minorswww.nytimes.com The state law bans health care providers from offering gender transition care to children.

Still light out here at 9:30 pm. I love living near the western edge of a time zone

Dobbs shifted the focus of the abortion debate back to *women's* lives, not just the lives of fetuses. 2 years after Dobbs decision, Americans seem increasingly concerned with how abortion bans affect the physical health of women—including women with wanted pregnancies reason.com/2024/06/24/d...

‘Dobbs’ re-centered women in the abortion debatereason.com Two years after the 'Dobbs' decision, Americans are increasingly concerned with how abortion bans affect women with wanted pregnancies.

Why are lawmakers trying to repeal PARTS OF the Comstock Act instead of just repealing the whole horrible law? reason.com/2024/06/21/t...

The Stop Comstock Act doesn't go far enoughreason.com Upcoming legislation would repeal parts of the 1873 law that could be used to target abortion, but the Comstock Act's reach is much more broad than that.

The American family needs a vibe shift. But it won't happen through big government programs or national interventions reason.com/2024/06/14/f...

Government can't fix America's baby bustreason.com The obstacles to having more babies can't be moved by tax incentives or subsidized child care.

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Jesus, this is terrible. Just crushing. A journalist shot in the eye by Minneapolis police during the George Floyd protests is dying from her injury, and is now in hospice care. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/please-hel...

Please Help Journalist Linda Tiradowww.everythingishorrible.net Linda has a traumatic brain injury and needs support for her family and for end of life.

"Libertarianism to me has always meant the freedom for peaceful people to make their own decisions about their own lives without government interference." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/o...

Opinion | Libertarian Candidates Can Change Presidential Outcomes. What Does the New Nominee Believe?www.nytimes.com Jane Coaston interviews the new nominee, Chase Oliver, about his beliefs.

Wanting a drug to be less available "does not establish standing to sue," wrote Brett Kavanaugh in the court’s unanimous decision reason.com/2024/06/13/u...

Unanimous Supreme Court rejects abortion pill challengereason.com A "desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the Court's opinion.

"Yoga school or sex trafficking cult?" is a weird question, but here we are reason.com/2024/06/12/t...

The myth of the Argentine yoga school sex cultreason.com Argentinian prosecutors say the Buenos Aires Yoga School was a sex trafficking cult, but the women they've labeled as victims say this isn't true.

Looking to interview people who are personally opposed to abortion but think banning it is a bad idea. If this is you, or you know anyone like this who might talk to me, comment here or email me at [email protected], please.

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The 50s. When men were men and never left the house without their shoulder kittens. Photo from my collection.

I’ve been basically absent from digital life for a couple weeks because: moving. But we moved! We’re done! We own a house! A chaos house, at the moment, but our very own chaos house, with a sunroom off the back and daisies growing out front

There is no “right to web traffic” reason.com/2024/06/03/n...

News publishers try to sic the government on Google AIreason.com A journalism industry trade group is asking the federal government to thwart a tech tool that could make news publishing less profitable.

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#FreeMalky #FreeAgunot On the way women are organizing for their rights, even within fundamentalist communities: www.thecut.com/article/why-...

‘Mitzvah Night Is CANCELLED’www.thecut.com Inside the sex strike that has infuriated husbands and shaken the ultra-Orthodox world.

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. @enbrown.bsky.social and I are gonna be adjunct professors for the first time at the University of Cincinnati this upcoming semester and we are so pumped, Go Bearcats 🐻 🐱 So from now on if you address me here, it is Illegal for you to not refer to me directly as Professor Swin ILLEGAL.

In case you thought we were done with really bad Section 230 bills… NOPE This one would simply “sunset” Section 230 after next year reason.com/2024/05/15/t...

The worst Section 230 bill yetreason.com The bipartisan proposal continues modern moral panics about tech companies, and would lead to less free speech venues online