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 security-theater dept Utah has a long track record of short-sighted internet policymaking, but the latest example really does…
from the worst-people-have-the-most-power dept The cops never change. Only the tech toys do. That’s the upshot of this report from…
from the it’s-a-true-mystery dept John Roberts has spent years whining about how totally unfair it is that people claim he…
from the dodgy-global-autocratic-disinformation-alliance dept Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic Commissioner (because Republicans refuse to seat the second one) is…
from the nintendon’t dept We all should know by now that Nintendo is incredibly protective of its IP. When it…
Last week, we released apkeep version 1.0.0, the latest edition of our command-line Android package downloading software. Rather than indicating…
from the MAGA-just-means-hating-American dept The content of their character was never up for consideration. Under Donald Trump, the only thing…
from the does-the-vampire-squid-have-a-lawyer? dept Perhaps Matt Taibbi’s most famous bit of writing ever was his takedown of Goldman Sachs in…
from the subtracting-votes-by-adding-confusion dept It may be almost impossible to devolve this country into a nation of slaveholders, but the…
from the this-shit-is-way-more-complicated dept California recently passed a law that will, in practice, cause AI chatbots to respond to any…
We’d all like the internet to be a better place—for kids and adults alike. But in the name of online…
The federal SECURE Data Act is not a serious consumer privacy bill, and its provisions—if enacted—would be a retreat from…