Freedom IndexMedia & Culture
Media & Culture explores how journalism, entertainment, and creative industries influence—and are influenced by—free speech. From press freedom to artistic expression, this category highlights the cultural impact of censorship and the ongoing struggle for open dialogue.
While the Trump administration’s extremely aggressive, thoroughly bigoted attempts to eliminate as many non-white people from this country as possible…
Sen. Mike Lee (R–Utah) wrote in a social media post Wednesday that an employee at a federal prison hung up…
In brief “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi,” is a new feature-film starring Casey Affleck, Gal Gadot, and other notable actors, centered on…
Sunday night in Budapest was glorious. The overwhelming majority of Hungarians in the country’s biggest-ever election chucked out a corrupt…
In brief Alibaba shut down the free tier of Qwen Code. Users are directed to check third-party providers like OpenRouter.…
from the with-friends-like-this… dept Back in January of last year, the Wall Street Journal published a story about a leather-bound…
From Monday’s order by Judge Brett Ludwig in Schmidt v. Naqvi (E.D. Wis.): Plaintiff Dale Schmidt is … the elected…
In brief Starbucks launched an app within ChatGPT that uses AI to recommend drinks based on user mood descriptions or…
A short excerpt from Judge Julia Munley’s long decision last month in Vespico v. Kass-Gerji (M.D. Pa.) (note that the…
In brief eToro acquired self-custodial wallet provider Zengo, reportedly for $70 million. Zengo’s keyless wallet technology uses multi-party computation (MPC)…
from the domestic-surveillance-is-fine-if-we-do-it dept It wasn’t all that long ago that GOP legislators were collectively stonewalling a clean reauthorization of…
Child care got expensive—more than $13,000 per child, per year. So many people want government to pay for it. My…