Facebook may have a strong self-interest in ensuring you can like what you want... but it works in our favor.

On last night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart stood up for jailed Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef, who is sometimes referred to as "the Egyptian Jon Stewart."

You probably shouldn't trust Yelp reviews, but at least now, nobody can be legally blackmailed into changing theirs.

Uh, yay, democracy -- sort of.

We joke about cops deleting videos of them doing (or screwing up) their jobs on citizen's private devices, but it does reflect an unpleasant reality that those who are tasked with enforcing the law often believe they are above it.

One of the biggest free speech issues, right now, is the fact that the police think they have the right, if they get filmed doing something, to take away a citizen's private device and delete any photos and videos of themselves.

We're fairly critical of the Stop Online Piracy Act around here, the impossibly stupid bill Tumblr is going all-in to stop, mostly because it won't stop online piracy, but will instead hand corporations and the government the right to shut off any website they feel like, for any reason they feel like, any time they feel like doing so.

Why are the only movies on the Internet even worth downloading in the first place the subject of lawsuits, when you can find them for free on so many websites anyway.