Sir! Step away from those Tostitos! Don’t you know you only want them because the food industry has tricked you into wanting them? That’s why those of us who know better would like to ban them. For your own good.
Congress wants to pass a set of bills that, if enacted, will drastically change the way the internet works and many of the things you love most about it. As part of the protest against them, we’re taking a look at what some of those major changes will be.
Taking a look at the politics of the Unified Republic of Stars and how real world events helped shape its creation and the evolution of the politics within the storyworld itself.
Tyranny can come in many forms, just as often through the prosecution of silly laws as through governments ignoring core civil liberties. One of the safeguards against this is jury nullification, a right of juries since the Sixteenth Century. Of course, for those trying to put people behind bars, it’s a real impediment. So now they’re trying to lock up someone who wants to inform juries of what they can do.
Spaceports! Just the name is exciting. An apparently New Mexico is building one. But does America even need one right now or, as with so many other things, will this just be another expensive flop that’ll do nothing to bring the reality of space travel to be?
