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 cool-cool-cool dept 2025 has delivered almost nothing but bad news. Here’s more of that, as first reported by…
from the not-that-the-Party-of-Free-Speech-cares… dept At least the last time this many journalists fled an oppressive regime, the military actually offered…
from the 2025-isn’t-1984 dept “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their…
At the end of August, the AI company Anthropic announced that its chatbot Claude wouldn’t help anyone build a nuclear…
In the early 2010s, nearly every STEM-savvy college-bound kid heard the same advice: Learn to code. Python was the new…
from the whoops-a-daisy dept Whoops! Some Jeep Wrangler 4xe hybrid owners were stranded after the company pushed out a buggy…
In late July 2024, Lina Khan, then the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, gave a speech at an…
A cat jumped up on my couch. Wait a minute. I don’t have a cat.The alert about the leaping feline…
from the that-was-that dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Ajit Pai put the final bullet in net neutrality…
from the failing-upward dept While we chronicled the fall of Nikola, a company that promised over-the-road trucks built with hydrogen…
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept Linux and UNIX operating systems have become increasingly popular in commercial computing environments. Due to their…
from the never-trust-the-cops dept New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety’s surveillance…