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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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By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost On Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators. SVB was the 16th largest bank in the country and its bankruptcy was the second largest in U.S. history, following Washington Mutual in 2008. Despite its size, SVB was not a “systemically […]

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We must understand that democracy is morphing with more technocratic systems of governance that lack full oversight and a clear understanding of their social and political impacts.

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Content warning, canceling, de-platforming, denying access: The fate of Sy Hersh’s Democracy Now! interview on YouTube is the latest indication of how much rougher press suppression is in this new media era.

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By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Inside the beating heart of many students and a large number of learners lies an inner cheat.  To get passing grades, every effort will be made to do the least to achieve the most. Efforts to subvert the central class examination are the stuff of legend: discreetly written notes on […]

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New records obtained by the ACLU shed light on the scope of a mass surveillance program keeping tabs on Americans’ financial data.

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By Dorothee Benz / Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting A recent guest essay in the New York Times (12/28/22) concluded a searing takedown of “our technology overlords” with the sentence: We have a technologically driven shift of power to ideological individuals and organizations whose lack of appreciation for moral nuance and good governance puts us all at […]

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