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 fuck-everyone-but-us-policy-still-in-play dept The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary.…
from the that’s-not-how-it-works-at-all dept You may have heard last week that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to Washington DC and gave…
from the autocrat-state-television dept Trump 1.0 took a hatchet to media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades…
from the this-isn’t-working dept I want to say a little something upfront in this post, so that there is no…
from the historical-analogies dept Artificial intelligence promises to change not just how Americans work, but how societies decide which kinds…
from the what-are-you-hiding-peter? dept Peter Mandelson—the former UK cabinet minister who was just sacked as Britain’s ambassador to the United…
Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s…
Criticize the government online? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might ask Google to cough up your name. By abusing…
from the fuck-em-for-existing-I-guess dept Technically — TECHNICALLY! — we still have a system that relies on three co-equal branches to…
Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement “free” access to surveillance…
from the the-kids-are-alright dept Over the years, we’ve written approximately one million words explaining why Section 230 of the Communications…
from the “antitrust-enforcers”-in-name-only dept We told you this was coming months ago. The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) says it…