Freedom Index#Innovation
from the liar-liar dept Way back in 2018, a series of events in Samoa brought about the country’s worst measles…
from the supreme-court-jr dept Trump and his supporters clearly believe migrants have no constitutional rights. But that’s simply not true.…
from the 230-is-30 dept The Telecommunications Act of 1996 became law thirty years ago today, on February 8, 1996. Buried in a…
from the playing-make-believe dept It’s been several years since we last did this, but I’d like to remind you all…
from the inescapable-advertisements dept Back in 2023 we noted how a company named Telly proclaimed it had come up with…
from the shoot-first,-ask-questions-never dept In the grand scheme of things — the wanton cruelty, the routine violations of rights, the…
from the fuck-the-poor dept The Trump administration keeps demonstrating that it really hates affordable broadband. It particularly hates it when…
from the the-chilling-effects-are-real dept For years, we’ve been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration’s…
from the it’s-blaring dept If you’ve been paying attention to surveillance and civil liberties issues over the past fifteen years,…
from the building-state-television…to-protect-the-children dept We’ve been talking about how the Trump GOP is launching an all out attack on Netflix’s…
from the cascading-failure dept It’s darkly funny, in a way, to recall a racist trope that gets trotted out about…
from the beyond-hallucitations dept It is no secret that large language models (LLMs) are being used routinely to modify and…