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Alan MacLeod’s reporting on the influx of former government employees at TikTok, Meta, Twitter and other social media companies helps define the scope of the U.S. censorship regime.

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Domestic uses of robotic dogs are fundamentally dehumanizing and would further suggest that they contribute strongly to the militarization of culture and strengthening the power of the surveillance state.

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Though it’s right to impugn the whims of Elon Musk, the outrage against Twitter’s labeling policy is highly selective.

The post US Media Denounce Twitter’s ‘State Media’ Label—When It Affects NPR appeared first on scheerpost.com.

By Jason Kelley and David Greene / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) The recently introduced RESTRICT Act (S. 686, Sen. Warner and Sen. Thune) rightfully is causing a lot of concern. This bill is being called a “TikTok ban,” but it’s more complicated than that. As we wrote in our initial review of the bill, the RESTRICT […]

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The ongoing effort to investigate and ban TikTok is not about our privacy, but about fueling more aggression against China.

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By Deborah James / Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Executive Summary This report shows how Big Tech companies are working to constrain the ability of EU democratic bodies to regulate their activities in the public interest through “trade” agreements, which are binding and permanent.  Digitalization is the defining economic transformation of our time. […]

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By Adam Schwartz and David Greene / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Freedom of speech and association include the right to choose one’s communication technologies. Politicians shouldn’t be able to tell you what to say, where to say it, or who to say it to. So we are troubled by growing demands in the United States […]

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In previously unreported videos from a closed-door Teneo Network conference, Florida's Republican governor takes his anti-big tech rhetoric beyond what he has said publicly.

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Briahna Joy Gray and Matt Stoller discuss the collapse of SVB, and anti-trust in relation to East Palestine and the prospective merger between Jet Blue and Spirit Airlines.

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