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Who is Tucker Carlson? Even among the modern breed of American far-Right pundits, competing to be the loudest and most extreme voice on an oversaturated digital scene, he stands out as an oddity. Whatever you think of him, he isn’t predictable. He opposes abortion and immigration; his views on race have included describing Iraqis as “primitive monkeys”. Yet he has repeatedly given airtime to anti-Semitic guests, and seemed to implicate Israel in the murder of Charlie Kirk – hardly normal for even hardline conservatives. Nor is his decrying of the destruction of Gaza. Watching Carlson, or listening to his ultra-popular...

Senate Bill 686—the RESTRICT Act—is being promoted as a bipartisan ban on TikTok. In fact, it’s nothing of the sort. Instead, it’s a bipartisan ban by big-government Senators giving the Secretary of Commerce enormous power to punish speech with which a presidential administration disagrees. Wired explains that the proposed RESTRICT Act comes from the office of Mark Warner (D-VA), and is meant “to take swift action against technology companies suspected of cavorting with foreign governments and spies, to effectively vanish their products from shelves and app stores when the threat they pose gets too big to ignore.” Indeed, as Wired...