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.
A massive wave of public comments just told the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO): don’t shut the public out…
from the selective-recall dept We’ve already written several times about the danger posed by adding AI to law enforcement incident/arrest…
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The SunFounder GalaxyRVR Mars Rover Kit is your gateway to hands-on learning on robotics, coding, and…
The state of streaming is… bad. It’s very bad. The first step in wanting to watch anything is a web…
from the power-to-the-people dept Eric Migicovsky, who basically invented the smartwatch category with the original Pebble, just announced something much…
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from the callous-and-cruel dept ICE continues to be increasingly awful as it chases arrest and deportation quotas it will never…
from the this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things dept We’ve covered how there’s a real push afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to…
from the fraud-and-abuse dept We here at Techdirt have longed complained about the DMCA takedown process being wide open for…
from the hypocrisy-in-every-possible-thing dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. For months, the Trump administration has been…
from the the-blunder-down-under dept Australia’s social media ban for kids is now in effect. As we’ve discussed, this is a…
from the rewriting-history dept The administration that is busy erasing history from any federal entity tasked with preserving it has…