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Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop(reason.com)

243 points by bbatsell 1 month ago | 103 comments

Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond(reason.com)

125 points by softwaredoug 1 month ago | 108 comments

Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules(reason.com)

41 points by delichon 2 months ago | 37 comments

Texas Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Transporting 'Anti-Government' Pamphlets(reason.com)

16 points by mrtesthah 4 months ago | 3 comments

Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft(reason.com)

132 points by tcp_handshaker 6 months ago | 110 comments

Cop-assisted extortion of DWI arrestees in New Mexico include getting them drunk(reason.com)

15 points by leephillips 9 months ago | 1 comments

DHS Invokes Immigration Enforcement to Justify Gathering Americans' DNA(reason.com)

18 points by pseudolus 9 months ago | 4 comments

DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship(reason.com)

57 points by xenophonf 9 months ago | 39 comments

Deplatforming Backfired(reason.com)

10 points by sbuttgereit 10 months ago | 1 comments

Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom(reason.com)

307 points by mooreds 10 months ago | 154 comments

Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?(reason.com)

691 points by delichon 10 months ago | 901 comments

Reason article by Emma Camp questioning why 38 percent of Stanford students report having a disability, arguing elite college admits rarely have learning disabilities.

Homeschooling hits record numbers(reason.com)

263 points by bilsbie 11 months ago | 704 comments

Indiana City Doesn't Have to Pay Innocent Mom $16,000 After Police Wrecked Home(reason.com)

27 points by bikenaga 1 year ago | 13 comments

Tennessee Man Arrested, Gets $2M Bond for Posting Facebook Meme(reason.com)

182 points by zzzeek 1 year ago | 99 comments

Michigan anti-porn bill would criminalize ASMR, written erotica(reason.com)

8 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 0 comments

CPS Investigated Her 4 Times Because She Let Her Kids Play Outside(reason.com)

50 points by leephillips 1 year ago | 33 comments

FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime(reason.com)

156 points by fortran77 1 year ago | 70 comments

She Got a Permit for Her Chickens. Now the City Is Fining Her $80k(reason.com)

32 points by fortran77 1 year ago | 35 comments

AI Hallucination in Filings, 14th-Largest US Law Firm: $31K in Sanctions(reason.com)

10 points by mdp2021 1 year ago | 0 comments

Supreme Court Issues Unusual Order in Alien Enemies Act Deportation Case(reason.com)

5 points by MaysonL 1 year ago | 1 comments

The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why(reason.com)

196 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 79 comments

US government agency argues that money isn't property–so it can take yours(reason.com)

121 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 74 comments

Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science(reason.com)

405 points by Bostonian 1 year ago | 746 comments

Reason opinion piece by Jesse Singal arguing that Scientific American's departing editor made the magazine ideologically biased, undermining trust in science.

Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town(reason.com)

115 points by bryan0 1 year ago | 65 comments

A Week of Failing to Pay with Bitcoin in El Salvador(reason.com)

39 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 34 comments

Voters' Yearning for a Dictator Is a Danger to the Country(reason.com)

4 points by seydor 2 years ago | 1 comments

Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off(reason.com)

141 points by heavyset_go 2 years ago | 89 comments

The Feds Are Skirting the 4th Amendment by Buying Data from Tech Companies(reason.com)

8 points by BenFranklin100 2 years ago | 2 comments

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

The post-neoliberalism moment(reason.com)

18 points by WildestDreams_ 2 years ago | 6 comments

Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border(reason.com)

226 points by mhb 2 years ago | 85 comments

Senate to Vote on Web Censorship Bill Disguised as Kids Safety(reason.com)

20 points by verdverm 2 years ago | 1 comments

'The DOJ's Assault on Apple Will Harm Consumers'(reason.com)

11 points by m463 2 years ago | 5 comments

Getting a Home Depot Employee Fired Is Cancel Culture(reason.com)

5 points by frankfishercat 2 years ago | 0 comments

Feds Arrest Telehealth Execs for Overprescribing Adderall(reason.com)

60 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 37 comments

E.U. Censorship Laws Mostly Suppress Legal Speech(reason.com)

58 points by Bostonian 2 years ago | 22 comments

AI regulations are crony capitalism(reason.com)

51 points by WaitWaitWha 2 years ago | 21 comments

Seattle Is Getting Rid of Gifted Schools in a Bid to Increase Equity(reason.com)

3 points by mhb 2 years ago | 1 comments

Seattle Law Mandating Higher Delivery Driver Pay Is a Disaster(reason.com)

14 points by andy99 2 years ago | 3 comments

Why Is Panera Exempted from California's New Minimum Wage Law?(reason.com)

34 points by everybodyknows 2 years ago | 15 comments

Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment(reason.com)

358 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 152 comments

Reason article reporting that a federal appeals court ruled the FBI's seizure of safe-deposit boxes violated the Fourth Amendment.

Hair Sample That Put a Man in Prison Turned Out to Be Dog Hair(reason.com)

123 points by rossant 2 years ago | 16 comments

'No AI Fraud Act' Could Outlaw Parodies, Political Cartoons, and More(reason.com)

93 points by elsewhen 2 years ago | 90 comments

It's Not a Cigarette. It's Not a Vape. and It's Big in Japan(reason.com)

13 points by ekianjo 2 years ago | 11 comments

There Is No 1.5°C Climate Cliff(reason.com)

6 points by Bostonian 2 years ago | 0 comments

Do You Still Have the Right to a Jury Trial?(reason.com)

24 points by daoboy 2 years ago | 14 comments

Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police(reason.com)

322 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 163 comments

Reason article about an Iowa man suing after being arrested twice for criticizing police at a public meeting.

The Pirate Preservationists(reason.com)

123 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 16 comments

Police Seized Innocent Peoples Property, Kept It for Years. What Will SCOTUS Do?(reason.com)

157 points by wahnfrieden 3 years ago | 105 comments

'First Amendment Auditor' Sues NYPD over Right to Record in Police Stations(reason.com)

68 points by jawns 3 years ago | 49 comments

The timing of computer search warrants when it takes years to guess the password(reason.com)

70 points by loteck 3 years ago | 58 comments

ChatGPT-Authored Legal Filing “Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases"(reason.com)

44 points by dpifke 3 years ago | 33 comments

Federal Zoning Bill Would Preempt Local Parking Mandates(reason.com)

42 points by jseliger 3 years ago | 45 comments

5-Year-Old Pulled Down a 3-Year-Old's Pants. The Preschool Workers Are on Trial(reason.com)

16 points by 34679 3 years ago | 4 comments