Freedom Index#Technology
from the do-not-pass-go,-do-not-collect-$200 dept More than 4,000 Hollywood insiders recently signed a letter blasting Paramount’s planned $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers,…
from the seems-very-stable dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka is one of…
from the the-crazy-never-ends dept Not this again. For many years now there have been a series of ongoing lawsuits between…
from the yo-chatgpt,-is-this-legal? dept Back in early 2025, DOGE bros Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh were handed multiple government roles…
from the this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things dept In late 2023, I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring the FCC’s attempt to stop race and…
from the security-theater dept Utah has a long track record of short-sighted internet policymaking, but the latest example really does…
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…
from the weird-and-racist-performance-art dept Last week the Trump FCC quietly announced that it was cooking up a new ban on…
from the NYPD-exists-to-serve-itself dept The NYPD’s biggest union is back in lawsuit mode. As usual, the impetus is accountability and…
from the gaming-like-it’s-1930 dept We’ve arrived at the end of our series of spotlight posts looking at the winners of…