Big Tech, Censorship, and Socialism

The suit claims the district censored the student’s tribute to Kirk, involved the police, and later adopted new rules barring political and religious speech.

Even before the EU’s fine was announced, U.S. Vice President JD Vance suggested it amounted to punishing X for ‘not engaging in censorship.’

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questions Markham Erickson during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Oct. 29.

Critics of governments’ efforts to curb free speech call the strategy of influence and intimidation to quell discussion the ‘censorship-industrial complex.’

A 2021 rule by the Cyberspace Administration of China required recommendation algorithms to ‘promote core socialist values.’

The company also said it has not and will not employ so-called fact-checkers.

‘When someone in the UK navigates to a US webserver, that server isn’t teleported to England,’ U.S. lawyer Preston Byrne said.

Fox said it was ‘disappointed that Google continually exploits its outsized influence by proposing terms that are out of step with the marketplace.’

The state’s attorney general is defending a law that requires parental consent for children to access certain online platforms.

A Mississippi law requires parental consent for children to access certain platforms.

The contracts with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI come with a ceiling of $200 million each, to accelerate the military’s adoption of AI systems.

The court voted 6–3 to uphold a law that fines websites if they fail to verify the age of users.

States were advised by the transportation secretary to ‘enforce ... immigration rules, end anti-American DEI policies, and protect free speech.’

‘The best way to counter disinformation is free speech,’ says the secretary of state.

DEI programs could lead to legal problems for corporations, state officials say.

The former Facebook executive accused the company of working to help China ‘out-compete’ U.S. companies.

The judge has ruled that the law is unconstitutional.

Australia’s proposed laws on AI, online content, and making platforms pay to use local content have angered US big tech firms.

The system will replace third-party fact-checking with a crowd-sourced approach to add context to posts across its platforms.

Some of Trump’s bank accounts were closed by several institutions in 2021.

The suit claims the district censored the student’s tribute to Kirk, involved the police, and later adopted new rules barring political and religious speech.

Even before the EU’s fine was announced, U.S. Vice President JD Vance suggested it amounted to punishing X for ‘not engaging in censorship.’

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questions Markham Erickson during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Oct. 29.

Critics of governments’ efforts to curb free speech call the strategy of influence and intimidation to quell discussion the ‘censorship-industrial complex.’

A 2021 rule by the Cyberspace Administration of China required recommendation algorithms to ‘promote core socialist values.’

The company also said it has not and will not employ so-called fact-checkers.

‘When someone in the UK navigates to a US webserver, that server isn’t teleported to England,’ U.S. lawyer Preston Byrne said.

Fox said it was ‘disappointed that Google continually exploits its outsized influence by proposing terms that are out of step with the marketplace.’

The state’s attorney general is defending a law that requires parental consent for children to access certain online platforms.

A Mississippi law requires parental consent for children to access certain platforms.

The contracts with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI come with a ceiling of $200 million each, to accelerate the military’s adoption of AI systems.

The court voted 6–3 to uphold a law that fines websites if they fail to verify the age of users.

States were advised by the transportation secretary to ‘enforce ... immigration rules, end anti-American DEI policies, and protect free speech.’

‘The best way to counter disinformation is free speech,’ says the secretary of state.

DEI programs could lead to legal problems for corporations, state officials say.

The former Facebook executive accused the company of working to help China ‘out-compete’ U.S. companies.

The judge has ruled that the law is unconstitutional.

Australia’s proposed laws on AI, online content, and making platforms pay to use local content have angered US big tech firms.

The system will replace third-party fact-checking with a crowd-sourced approach to add context to posts across its platforms.

Some of Trump’s bank accounts were closed by several institutions in 2021.