Christopher Cox

Jul 14, 2024 | nymag.com | Christopher Cox

Tom Fraser in June. Photo: Bobby Doherty One morning at the end of April 2023, Marcela Maus, a cancer researcher at Mass General in Boston, got a call from her colleague Bryan Choi. “He called me, and he’s like, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!’ And I’m like, ‘What is going on?’” Maus said. Choi, a neurosurgeon with the languid demeanor of a surfer, was not given to outbursts. Maus hung up the phone and hurried over to his office.

May 21, 2024 | wsj.com | Christopher Cox |Ron Wyden

Repealing Section 230 without a plan to replace it is a bipartisan idea—and a terribly reckless one. A 1973 National Lampoon cover featured a dog with a gun to its head. The headline: “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog.” The image is reminiscent of how Congress approaches its most serious responsibilities. Lawmakers increasingly prefer brinkmanship to rational leadership.

May 21, 2024 | hotair.com | Christopher Cox

The second was that without new legislation, the law perversely penalized content moderation. Under the old rules of publisher liability, only an “anything goes” approach would protect a website from legal responsibility for user-created content. Prohibiting bullying, swearing, harassment, and threats of violence could be legally disastrous for any site. It was clear, then as now, that if the law were to encourage such a hands-off approach, the internet would turn into a cesspool.

Jul 5, 2023 | sanjoseinside.com | Christopher Cox

What if, rather than trying to out-engineer the weather, or evacuate and return in an endless cycle, we changed where and how we live? Read More

Jan 26, 2023 | roselawgroupreporter.com | Christopher Cox |Hank Adler

The 16th Amendment authorizes the federal government only to tax income, but some members of Congress would love to tax wealth as well. That is widely understood to be unconstitutional, but a recent ruling from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding a form of wealth tax could upend that conventional wisdom if it is allowed to stand. The case, Moore v.