Net neutrality is back as US FCC votes to regulate internet providers ~tech internet Article 65 votes
US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform ~tech social media Link 69 votes
US FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules years after the agency voted to repeal them ~tech internet Article 1236 words 82 votes
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice ~tech linux microsoft Article 592 words 56 votes
Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms ~tech social media Article 1047 words 22 votes
Denmark was the first to post an ambassador to Silicon Valley. Now, it is leading Europe's diplomats in putting Big Tech on the right side of history. ~tech Article 1097 words 7 votes
Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats ~tech social media Article 24 votes
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate ~tech social media Article 795 words 45 votes
European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology ~tech Article 26 votes
White House urges use of type safe and memory safe programming languages and hardware ~tech security.cyber PDF 38 votes
Conservative government would require websites to verify age to watch porn: Pierre Poilievre ~tech internet Link 36 votes
Norwegian state-run telco Telenor announced plans to sell its satellite division to Space Norway, part of the country's space agency ~space satellites Article 433 words 6 votes
Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned ~tech privacy Article 2483 words 34 votes
Fact sheet: US President Joe Biden issues executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence ~tech Article 1522 words 24 votes
UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed ~tech social media Article 741 words 27 votes
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet ~tech internet.open browsers Article 924 words, published Jun 26 2023 49 votes
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration ~tech internet privacy Article 1935 words 45 votes
French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Emmanuel Macron ~tech social media Article 894 words 12 votes
Criminalization of encryption: The 8 December case ~tech security Article 3770 words, published Jun 5 2023 43 votes
Japan to open up Apple- and Google-dominated phone app payments to competition ~tech apple google Article 193 words 8 votes
Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants ~tech google Article 284 words 27 votes
Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen wrote part of a speech using OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to highlight the risks of artificial intelligence ~tech Article 396 words 3 votes
Brazilian supreme court Minister to take legal action against Telegram ~tech Article 346 words 3 votes
Norway's $1.4tn wealth fund calls for state regulation of AI – Nicolai Tangen says fund will set guidelines for companies it invests in on ethical use of AI ~tech Article 290 words 4 votes
OSTP issues guidance to make Federally funded research freely available without delay ~science Article 682 words 12 votes
Two US senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits ~tech Article 659 words 18 votes
"Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy" - Twenty-six well-known computer scientists send letter to Congress urging them to resist crypto lobbying ~tech Article 1887 words 11 votes
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition ~tech internet Article 5 votes
SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas argues for regulating large internet platforms as common carriers ~tech internet Article 535 words 21 votes
Big Tech critic Tim Wu joins Joe Biden administration to work on US competition policy ~tech Article 419 words 9 votes
Indian government restricts foreign mapping services to one metre accuracy ~news india politics Article 856 words 5 votes
Joe Manchin's bid to pierce US tech's shield ~tech internet Article 234 words, published Feb 1 2021 4 votes
US President Joe Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return ~tech internet Article 736 words 10 votes
Trump promises to veto crucial defense-spending bill unless it includes a full repeal of CDA 230, the law that protects online platforms from liability ~tech social media internet Article 916 words 27 votes
EARN IT Act introduced in House of Representatives ~tech internet security privacy Article 247 words 37 votes
President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist ~tech privacy internet social media Article 1029 words 8 votes
A crash course in CDA Section 230, and a discussion between two lawyers about the EARN IT Act and what it means for free speech and privacy online ~tech privacy security internet Video 1:08:34, published Aug 22 2020 5 votes
US phone carriers may soon be able to block all calls from robocallers' carriers ~tech Article 593 words, published Jul 17 2020 16 votes
United Kingdom to ban Huawei equipment in 2021 and remove it from 5G networks by 2027 ~tech Article 388 words 6 votes
Terrible, dangerous EARN IT act set to move forward in the senate; attack on both encryption and free speech online ~tech social media internet privacy Article 511 words 27 votes
Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data ~tech internet privacy Article 606 words 18 votes
CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet ~tech social media internet Article 3539 words 6 votes