Supreme Court Treads Carefully in Gonzalez
Will DuffieldLast month the Supreme Court heard oralarguments inGonzalez v. Google, a case about whether Section 230 protects platforms from liability for algorithmically recommended speech. This is the first time the Court has heard a case involving Section 230, and a bad ruling wouldremake the internet for the worse. Although many had feared that justices would use the opportunity to get at Big Tech, the Court was skeptical of petitioners ' counsel Eric Schnapper ’s textual arguments and mindful of algorithms ' almost universal use in sorting information online.Going intoGonzalez,there wasn ’t a circuit split about a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Will Duffield Source Type: blogs
The Mask Wars and Social Control: Lessons from the 1927 Unveiling Campaign in Soviet Uzbekistan
Robert Kahn (University of St. Thomas), The Mask Wars and Social Control: Lessons from the 1927 Unveiling Campaign in Soviet Uzbekistan, Cal. W. Int ' l Int ' l L.J. (Forthcoming): During the late 1920s Soviet authorities embarked on the hujum, a campaign to... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 16, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 29, 2022 Edition-----The world seems to be lurching to be overwhelmed by issues around most of the major powers being in conflict for a real risk of a global recession affecting the UK, Europe, the US and much of Asia. We seem to be in some pretty difficult times right now …In OZ Parliament is now back after the death of the Queen and it will be interesting to see how things play out and what the Budget looks like in the face of an upcoming recession.-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/a-nation-shorn-of-britishness-is-still-waiting-for-the-republic-20220915-p5bi90A nation shorn of Britis...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 22, 2022 Edition-----We will see the closure on the Mourning Period for QE!! In Australia tomorrow, We can then move on to the next big issue, which will surely be the progress in the Russo-Ukrainian war and the associated issues with China and Russia.The US seems – with the rest of the world – to be moving into recession.King Charles has now been to all his UK Realms and will now quietly let PM Trass get back to running the UK. God help her …In Australia we have to now get on with life and the economic disaster we seem to be facing.-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/oddly-enough-th...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Details of 155 Immigration Detainers for U.S. Citizens
David J. BierImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) routinely requests that local law enforcement detain U.S. citizens to allow it to pick them up. ICE ’s recordslist 3,158 U.S. citizens as targets of ICE detainers from October 2002 to September 2019. Another 1.6 percent of actual ICEarrests through Secure Communities —the targeting system that ICE uses to issue detainers—were U.S. citizens from October 2008 to April 2011—or 3,627 citizens. Immigration courts—again with incomplete records—show 2,549 removal proceedings terminated in the favor of U.S. citizens from 2002 to June 9, 2017.These totals undercount...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 4, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
A Promising Hub For Digital Health: Kazakhstan
Sharing borders with Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, you find the world’s largest landlocked country, the Republic of Kazakhstan. Conversely, with its population of over 18 million spanning across an area of 2,724,900 km², the country also has one of the lowest population densities worldwide, at less than 6 people per square kilometre.
Being a relatively new republic and with its widespread inhabitants, Kazakhstan poses as an adequate hub for digital health to expand. Such a young republic’s ministry of health can develop around newer technologies and strategies brought forth with the adven...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 12, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy digital health digital health strategy health policy Source Type: blogs
Profiles of Every Terrorism Vetting Failure in the Last 30 Years
In my newpolicy analysis released today, I identify 65 vetting failures where the visa vetting system allowed a foreign-born person to enter the United States as an adult or older teenager when they had already radicalized —80 percent occurred before 9/11. Just 13 vetting failures have occurred since 9/11, and only one—the last one (Tashfeen Malik)—resulted in any deaths in the United States. That’s one vetting failure for every 29 million visa or status approvals, and one deadly failure for every 379 million visa or status approvals from 2002 to 2016.As I note, 9/11 is reasonable point of analysis because after th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Sci-Fi Contest 2017: Meet The Winning Stories
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment you have all been waiting for – the day that the winners of the Medgadget Medical Sci-Fi Competition are announced and their fantastic stories are published!
First, we would like to thank Eko Devices, the wonderful sponsors of our contest, that make the coolest and most advanced digital stethoscopes out there.The winner of our contest will receive an Eko CORE stethoscope that is both acoustic and electronic, has all the features of both, can amplify sound, record audio waveforms, and connect to your phone. Thank you, Eko!
Since we announced our Medical Sci-Fi Writing Contest i...
Source: Medgadget - December 15, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Adding Uzbeks to the Travel Ban Will Further Expose its Phony Criteria
Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek national,killed at least eight people with a truck in New York yesterday. Uzbekistan is a central Asian country north of Afghanistan ofalmost 30 million people—88 percent of whom are Muslim. President Trump did not include Uzbeks inhis travel ban released last month, but he is already sounding bellicose,writing that he will not allow ISIS to “enter our country” andthat he “ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program,” a phrase which hesometimes uses as shorthand for the travel ban.But adding Uzbekistan to the travel ban would be unwise for a president whose...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 1, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
The Halloween Terror Attack in New York: The Threat from Foreign-Born Terrorists
On Halloween, Uzbek-bornSayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov allegedly murdered eight people and injured 12 with a rented truck in New York City. The details of the attack, the number of victims, and Saipov’s personal information could change over the next few days. However, based on the information that we have so far, Saipov entered the United States in 2010 as a lawful permanent resident with a green card. Heobtained his green card through theDiversity Immigrant Visa Program, which awards 50,000 green cards annually to those who enter the running from select countries. Uzbekistan has not been a major source of terro...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 1, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Heritage Report Shows Refugees Are Not a Major Threat
ConclusionTheHeritage Backgrounder makes a valuable and interesting contribution to the debate over the future of the American refugee program. As a side effect, it shows just how small and manageable the refugee terrorist threat is. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 13, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier, Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Statement on Refugee Program Integrity Restoration Act of 2017 – H.R. 2826
Discussion Paper No. 2919, 21 July 2007.http://repec.iza.org/dp2919.pdf.[24] Mark Bils. “Pricing in a Customer Market.” Q.J.E. 104, 1989.http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2937863?uid=3739560&uid=2&uid=4&ui … 69230837.Saul Lach, “Immigration and Prices,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2007.http://www.uh.edu/~adkugler/Lach.pdf.Robert E. Lipsey and Birgitta Swedenborg, “Explaining Product Price Differences Across Countries,” National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2007.http://www.nber.org/papers/w13239.[25] Alex Nowrasteh, “Huge Net Costs from Trump’s New E...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 14, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Muslims Rapidly Adopt U.S. Social Values
Concerns about Muslim assimilation made news again this week when Donald Trumperroneouslyclaimed that U.S. Muslim neighbors failed to report the San Bernardino shooters. But this persistent idea that U.S. Muslims are not assimilating could not be more inaccurate. In fact, U.S. Muslims —81 percent of whom are immigrants or children of immigrants —are the most socially liberal and religiously tolerant in the world and becoming more so with each passing year.U.S. Muslims Are Adopting Americans ’ Liberal Social and Religious ViewsMore than 80 percent of Muslim Americans are immigrants or the children of immigrants, accor...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Modern Slavery, More Important than Who Built the White House
When Michelle Obama delivered her address at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia, she created a stir when she cried out that America ’s story was “the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a ho use that was built by slaves.”That last line, “…I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves,” was the focus of much attention, with some conservative c...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 11, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Steve H. Hanke Source Type: blogs
