It's past time to update the "castle doctrine" for the internet.

There are castles on the Internet, and the rules they live under are quite different from those of your home or your business.

In this age of "Stand Your Ground" laws, and after the murder a decade ago last month of Trayvon Martin by a racist invoking them, most Americans are familiar with the concept of the "Castle Doctrine."

Sir Edward Coke, in The Institutes of the Laws of England, laid it out in 1628: "For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium [and each man's home is his safest refuge]." In that Latin phrase, he was citing a law ratified in 1275 by England's King Edward III.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Biden arrives in Poland as he announces new plan to wean Europe off Russian energy" by Maegan Vazquez and Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Germany says it is moving quickly to cut the cord on Russian energy." by Christopher F. Schuetze.

Article: "Russian Liberal Democratic Party denies its leader Zhirinovsky's death" by Interfax.

Article: "Around 300 Killed In Russian Airstrike On Mariupol Theater, Says Ukraine" by Andrea Rosa, Nebi Qena.

Article: "January 6 Committee obtains text messages between Clarence Thomas' wife and Mark Meadows: report" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Former Ted Cruz staffer highlights Clarence Thomas' suspicious actions around his wife's texts" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Jared Kushner also received conspiracy-laden Ginni Thomas text messages: NYT" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Fears for bees as US set to extend use of toxic pesticides that paralyse insects" by Oliver Milman.

Article: "Trump gutted environmental protections. How quickly can Biden restore them?" by Shannon Osaka & Nathanael Johnson.

Article: "Science ranks grow thin in Trump administration" by Annie Gowen, Juliet Eilperin, Ben Guarino and Andrew Ba Tran.

Article: "What Does It Mean That Amy Coney Barrett Served As A 'Handmaid' In A Religious Group?" by Jemima McEvoy.

Transcript: "March 25, 2022" (Brianna Keilar: "Minority Leader McConnell said he will not support the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson") by CNN.

Article: "Manchin to vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson, likely ensuring she will be the first Black woman on Supreme Court" by Dylan Wells.

Article: "Beware of Those Indiscriminately Cheering for Volodymyr Zelenskyy" by Gwendolyn Sims.

Article: "Washington Helped Trigger the Ukraine War" by Ted Galen Carpenter.

Article: "Biblically, Zelensky is a failed leader" by Ilana Mercer.

Article: "Washington Doesn't Want Peace in Ukraine" by Matthew Boose.

Article: "FLASHBACK: Ketanji Brown Jackson Sentenced The Pizzagate Gunman" by Darian Alexander.

Article: "Joe Hill" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ludlow Massacre", 1914 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Everett massacre", 1914 by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital" - Abraham Lincoln .

Article: "1935 passage of the Wagner Act" by NLRB.

Article: "Industrial Workers of the World" (IWW, Wobblies) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Receivership Crisis" by Morris Phillips.

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause).

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "How the prosecution of Donald Trump can continue" by David Cay Johnson.

Podcast: "Pat Thurston: Award winning journalist David Cay Johnston on ex-prosecutor who says Donald Trump is 'guilty of numerous felony violations'".

Article: "Vision for personal rapid transit system stalled in Milpitas" by Eli Wolfe.

Site: LoopWorks Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Project.

Article: "World's first Personal Rapid Transit System bursts onto scene at Heathrow " by Heathrow.

Article: "Quantitative Easing (QE)" by Investopedia.

Article: "Russia's Nationalist Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky has reportedly died" by Matthew Roscoe.

Article: "Ukrainian Snake Island soldiers freed after telling Russian ship 'go ---- yourself'" by Julia Marnin.

Article: "The Plight of the Palestinians" by Paul R. Pillar.

Article: "Michael Connell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tulsi Gabbard takes to Twitter to bash Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson" by Paige Harriss.

Article: "U.S. Rep Jayapal unveils new 'climate resilience' proposals" by retime.org.

Article: "Judge: Federal civil suits against Trump for inciting Jan. 6 riot at Capitol can go forward" by Bart Jansen.

Article: "2022 Los Angeles mayoral election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kevin de León" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Karen Bass" by Wikipedia.

Site: Sierra Club California.

Article: "Louis Brandeis" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Griswold v Connecticut" (1965) (right to privacy, contraception for married couples).

Quote: "Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was incorruptible." - William O. Douglas.

Article: "Are U.S. Railroad Gauges Based on Roman Chariots?" by David Mikkelson.

Article: "Scalia Angrily Defends His Duck Hunt With Cheney" by Steve Twomey.

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Article: "Atlanta DA investigating Trump's election interference: 'We're not here playing a game'" by Sara Murray and Devan Cole.

Article: "New York attorney general seeks documents from another accounting firm that worked for the Trump Organization" by Graham Kates.

Article: "Why Republican senators kept bringing up Janice Rogers Brown" by Ruth Marcus.

Article: "Candace Owens" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Germany to Wean Itself Off Russian Oil, Gas in Next 2 Years" by Arne Delfs.

Article: "How Europe Got Hooked on Russian Gas Despite Reagan's Warnings" by Hiroko Tabuchi.

Article: "Germany vows to end dependence on Russian gas by 2024 as US offers extra shipments" by James Politi, Sam Fleming, Erika Solomon.

Article: "Norway bans gas car sales in 2025, but trends point toward 100% EV sales as early as April" by Jameson Dow.

Article: "Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom" by Bill McKibben.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Europe's Digital Markets Act Takes a Hammer to Big Tech" by Morgan Meaker.

Article: "UK Covid infections climb by a million in a week" by Michelle Roberts.

Tweet: "MAPS Forecast 3-24-2022: Not really a forecast but a point of concern. Bottom line: 2nd booster ASAP!!! @PeterHotez @mtosterholm @CDCDirector @CIDRAP @mnhealth @DrEricDing @KPochickMD went through the state by state vaccination data from 1-12-2021-3-17-2022 and applied a [chart]" by jellyrollblues.

Twitter: "jellyrollblues".

Article: "Congresswoman Cori Bush Sleep-in On Capitol Steps ... To Protest COVID Evictions" by TMZ.

Site: OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting.

Video: How Do We Deal With Hunger? (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff).

Book: Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation by Candace Owens.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Eisenstadt v. Baird" (1972, legalized birth control for unmarried people).

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973).

Article: "Birth control in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A Brief History of Birth Control in the U.S." by OBOS.

Book: Conscience of a Conservative by Barry M. Goldwater.

Site: Robert Reich.

Substack: "Robert Reich".

Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Car Allowance Rebate System" ("cash for clunkers") by Wikipedia.

Video: Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans.

Article: "Inside Clean Energy: 6 Things Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' Gets Wrong" by Dan Gearino.

Article: "Alvin Bragg Not Indicting Donald Trump 'Shameful'—Legal Experts" by Ewan Palmer.

Article: "Why Is It You Can Host Terrorist Attacks & Drug Sales On the Web, But Not At Your Home?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Exceptions to Section 230: How Have the Courts Interpreted Section 230?" by Ashley Johnson Daniel Castro .

Article: "The first part of the institutes of the laws of England, or, A commentary upon Littleton not the name of the author only, but of the law itself" by Sir Edward Coke.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley.

Article: "The Kids Online Safety Act Is a Heavy-Handed Plan to Force Platforms to Spy on Young People" by Jason Kelley.

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