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 racists-and-their-SCOTUS-enablers dept In July, a California federal court handed down what should have been considered an obvious decision:…
Online surveillance is everywhere—and understanding how you’re being tracked, and how to fight back, is more important than ever. That’s…
from the now-go-home dept Hello from the free state of Illinois! We just talked about Donald Trump’s incurrsion into Chicago…
WIRED Roundup: Are We In An AI Bubble? Read the full article here
from the ice-is-not-a-marginalized-group dept Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to…
from the cruelty-above-all-else dept America isn’t the land of the free. We abandoned that title when we returned Donald Trump…
from the dysfunction-junction dept When FCC boss Brendan Carr isn’t failing embarrassingly to censor comedians who make the President sad,…
A Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to…
from the bring-it-on dept Here is a brief timeline of events that got us here. Chicago has had a decline…
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and…
from the we’ve-come-a-long-way-baby dept This is who we are now. We are the country that makes people who aren’t white…
As all things old are new again, a bill that would make obtaining bad patents easier and harder to challenge…