US FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson announces an inquiry into “Big Tech censorship”, which he calls “un-American” and “potentially illegal”, and seeks public comment
including ‘shadow banning’ Sean Burch / The Wrap : Trump-Appointed FTC Chair Launches Big Tech Inquiry for ‘Bullying’ and Censorship Sean Burch / TVNewsCheck : Trump-Appointed FTC Chair Launches Big T...
US federal lobbying disclosure forms reveal how Meta, with a team of 14 directly employed lobbyists, led efforts to block the passage of KOSA in Congress
Ruth Reader / Politico : Bluesky: @rweingarten , @antiquequaalude , @chinasorrows , and @variousinterests . Threads: @karaswisher X: @polskysays , @marshablackburn , @memphisholler , and @boulderpres...
Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time
www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/ b... Tim Karr / @timkarr.bsky.social : Where one of the bigger threats to free speech under the coming Trump admin, says the private entity NewsGuard “is under investigati...
A recap of TikTok CEO Shou Chew's testimony before Congress, in which he struggled to address national security concerns over ByteDance's ownership of TikTok
“[T]he day was dominated by political grandstanding that failed to acknowledge the real solutions already underway through Project Texas or productively address industry-wide issues of youth safety.” ...
US civil liberties and digital rights groups are speaking out against calls to ban TikTok, arguing the move would violate users' First Amendment rights
Happy Thursday! If you've ever thought some people in Washington should be in straitjackets, well, I guess you got your wish.
The White House gives federal agencies 30 days to ensure they don't have TikTok installed on government devices and 120 days to adjust IT contracts with vendors
report Tweets: @aclu : A ban on TikTok would violate the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans who use the app to express themselves daily. https://twitter.com/... Governor Larry Hogan / @go...
Bipartisan House bill would force tech platforms to offer an “input-transparent algorithm” that doesn't require user data to generate recommendations
letting all kinds of awful content flow, and saying “the law won't let us hide hate anymore!” (You know they'd do this.) Anil Dash / @anildash : More broadly, this class of solutions to tech tend to i...
Twitter and Facebook's ban on Trump is not censorship, and demanding clear rules for social media moderation is “stupid” because the context is always changing
every case is different. https://www.techdirt.com/... And inciting an attack on your own government that leaves five people dead is a far graver assault on free speech than anything you're complaining...
Tech groups consider legal action against Trump's EO barring federal contractors from offering Diversity and Inclusion training, raising First Amendment issues
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol : Tweets: @usatodaymoney , @carnage4life , @bizcarson , and @uche_blackstock Tweets: @usatodaymoney : Trump's decision to expand a ban on “divisive” and “un-American” divers...
Tech groups consider legal action against Trump's EO barring federal contractors from offering Diversity and Inclusion training, raising First Amendment issues
The country's top tech companies are mobilizing against President Trump's executive order barring federal contractors … Tweets: @bizcarson , @uche_blackstock , and @carnage4life Tweets: Biz Carson / @...