Millions of Users Are Flooding Encrypted Apps After Social Media Purges
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After a 16-month investigation into the big four tech companies, it seems the most that congressional busybodies can accuse them of is routine business practices and having popular services.
The more that big social media companies act like they can control what people say, the more competition they encourage.
The case against the popular pornography site rests on misleading data and hidden agendas.
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It's hard to take seriously complaints that there are no alternatives to Facebook when they're made on Twitter.
But what one side likes, the other side hates. There's no way Twitter and Facebook can appease them both.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey faced the music. The tune is becoming familiar.
The government is going after Google not to stop consumer harm but to level the business playing field.
Government claims Google uses its power to force users and advertisers on board. Google says that its popularity is not anticompetitive.
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Enforcement is supposed to be about protecting "consumer welfare." Overturning that goal would be bad for all of us.
Inspired by Germany's notorious hate-speech law, more countries seek to impose steep penalties on platforms that don't comply with their censorship whims.
The costly fight over a “right to repair” proposal has led to a lot of cybersecurity fearmongering.
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A new DOJ proposal aims to bring the internet communications law in line with Trump's personal interpretation of it.
There’s nothing good about censoring communication platforms citizens want to use.
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If the new trustbusters get their way, tech platforms might be forced to pay money to traditional news outlets for the privilege of linking to their content.
How can we build a culture that welcomes alternative tech?
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America has been lagging behind other countries.
"I know what moral panics look like; they look kind of like this."
We don’t trust state-controlled companies in China. Would it be different if we did more of the controlling?
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Even as Americans rely on tech more than ever, our early-pandemic truce with the industry is officially over.
An ambiguous presidential order affecting a Chinese company connected to several popular video games sows confusion.
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This isn't a debate about consumer needs. It's all about political control.
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The scary monopoly power on display Wednesday was the federal government's.
"I think you might be referring to what happened on Twitter."
This isn't a bill about fighting child porn. Don't fall for it.
There's no need to pity successful companies or grant them special deals, but state officials shouldn't be so blinded by an anti-corporate ideology that they drive businesses away, either.
The NBC News Verification Unit sadly did not live up to its name.
Hamas "used and relied on" Facebook "as among its most important tools to facilitate and carry out its terrorist activity," the plaintiffs claimed.
Mark Zuckerberg can't please the anti-tech populists on the left and the right, no matter what he does.
Contact tracing might offer hope for slowing the spread of the pandemic—or fulfill every Big Brother-ish fear privacy advocates have ever raised.
They trade tips and manuals through a decentralized information-sharing network. Biomedical technicians say it's the fastest and easiest way to get life-saving information.
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The new bill takes aim at internet freedom and privacy under the pretense of saving kids.
The EARN IT is an attack on encryption masquerading as a blow against underage porn.
How the press learned to stop worrying and love censorship.
"We need to stop this generation of big tech companies from profiting off of lies to the American people," the candidate told PEN America.