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 reinventing-software dept Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centered on…
from the we-keep-seeing-this-over-and-over dept Last week, I wrote about why the social media addiction verdicts against Meta and YouTube should…
While the very public fight continues between the Department of Defense and Anthropic over whether the government can punish a…
from the unfun-twist-on-an-old-story dept This may not be an actual “Wyden siren,” but it still has his name attached to…
You’re invited on a journey inside the privacy battles that shaped the internet. EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn has tangled…
from the another-day-in-paradise dept A quick refresher: there was originally $42.5 billion in broadband grants headed to the states thanks to the…
from the move-fast-and-nuke-things dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Last summer, a group of officials from…
Recently, a California Superior Court jury found that Meta and YouTube harmed a user through some of the features they…
Copyright law is supposed to encourage creativity. Too often, it’s used to extract payouts from others. Higbee & Associates, a…
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and…
Interviewer: Jillian York Jillian York: Welcome, Jacob. I’m just going to kick off with a question that I ask everyone,…
from the hype-without-substance dept There is a familiar media failure in which opposing viewpoints are presented as equally valid, even…