Freedom IndexTech & Big Tech
Tech & Big Tech examines the influence of major technology companies and digital platforms on free speech. From content moderation and AI-driven policies to antitrust debates, this category uncovers how tech giants shape online expression and public discourse.
from the but-what-will-ICE-learn-from-this dept A lot has happened since last week when my post about Des Moines (IA) school superintendent…
Bleeding Edge from the power-to-the-people dept Tue, Oct 7th 2025 01:30pm – Leigh Beadon Support us on Patreon » We’ve written…
from the seems-bad dept Once again, we’re reminded why age verification systems are fundamentally broken when it comes to privacy…
from the formerly-open-ecosystem dept It would be something of an understatement to say that Alphabet, Google’s holding company, is big…
from the martial-law-enthusiasts-all-over-the-place dept It seems like years ago, but the Trump administration got itself sued earlier this very year…
Allan Thygesen, the CEO of Docusign, was not particularly concerned when he saw the news last week that OpenAI had…
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety’s surveillance data in an abortion…
from the fail-upward-brunchlords-run-the-world dept It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints…
The AI kept getting things wrong. In one shot, Tiggy looked inexplicably jacked. In another, his back was too dry.…
from the and-scene dept As we discussed last week, Ryan Walters resigned from his position as the state Superintendent of…
At OpenAI’s developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, CEO Sam Altman and ex-Apple designer Jony Ive spoke in vague…
OpenAI didn’t share details around any revenue-share agreements with Canva, Zillow, Spotify, and the other apps it highlighted today.The new…