Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Tech

• O'Leary says he's willing to pay $20 billion for TikTok
• Facebook reinstates pro-life accounts after pressure from pro-life groups
• Trump can save TikTok, but the US must force it out of China’s grip
• TikTok Refugees Are Fleeing to Other Chinese Apps. But Will They Face the Same Fate?
• Trump responds to Supreme Court ruling that upholds ban on Chinese-owned TikTok
• TikTok is the top app on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store just days before a ban on Chinese-owned apps goes into effect
• Supreme Court Approves TikTok Ban
• The slow approval of self-driving cars is costing lives
• How to Get the Right Kind of Growth
• Biden's farewell F-you to Elon Musk
• Nelle Diala says she was fired from her 'dream job' after making a video of herself twerking in the aisles of an empty plane
• TikTok Users Are Flocking to a Chinese Social Media App. Here’s Why They Might Stick Around.
• So now Biden’s worried about the tech oligarchy?
• Free Speech and Private Power: Function-by-Function Analysis and Permissible Nondiscrimination Rules
• TikTok is the only truly democratic social platform. A US ban would rob us all | Sophia Smith Galer
• A bad day for pornographers at the Supreme Court - Washington Examiner
• Biden is ending his disastrous presidency by promoting the mass censorship of Americans’ free speech
• So...is TikTok really getting banned?
• Why Mark ZuckerBro turned Meta Maga
• Legal education has lost its way
• Why was Facebook willing to censor content for the Biden regime in the first place?
• The Examination is seeking an audience editor to lead our team in defining, understanding and growing our U.S. and international audience
• Labour’s AI plan could be good for Britain – except the creatives it will throw under the bus | Ed Newton-Rex
• Zuckerberg Proves Meta Is Too Big
• Biden-Harris administration announces new restrictions on AI chip exports
• In the 1950s, the U.S. faced a critical intelligence challenge in its burgeoning competition with the Soviet Union. Now, the U.S. must take advantage of its world-class private sector
• Big Tech has gone topsy-turvy in the wake of Trump's victory, says Debra Saunders
• MTA’s bogus ‘proof’ that congestion pricing is working
• Prostitution website OnlyFans prostitute claims to have slept with 1,057 men in 24 hours
• MAGA billionaires: Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg rewarded with prime seats at Trump's inauguration
• Chinese-owned social media app Xiaohongshu is the most downloaded free app in the U.S. Apple store
• Report: China Could Sell TikTok to Musk
• Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan
• Sen. Eric Schmitt is reintroducing legislation to hold government officials accountable for their role in shutting down free speech
• We can’t let Mark Zuckerberg pass the buck on Meta’s censorship
• The incredible, blind arrogance of the ‘fact checking’ censors
• “We’ve got to be strong in standing up to them and explaining to them, and in some cases, I think consequences need to be serious,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) says
• The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is wrapping up for another year
• "The truth matters": Biden and Zuckerberg trade criticisms after Meta kills fact-checking
• As resolutions go, Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘nothing in moderation’ is a stinker | Alison Phillips
• Scaachi Koul on Terrible Emails, Moo Deng, and Orlando Bloom Fanfiction
• Misinformation Expert's "Citation to Fake, AI-Generated Sources in His Declaration ... Shatters His Credibility with This Court"
• Courting Trump, Zuckerberg ditches DEI and kills off LGBTQ+ themes for Facebook Messenger
• How the TikTok Ban Might Backfire
• Misinformation on TikTok: How Documented Examined Hundreds of Videos in Different Languages
• Silicon Valley’s bid to rewrite our laws
• Facebook’s new free speech policy shows business getting back to business
• Fact-checking outfits in full-blown panic after Facebook pulls funding for third-party fact-checkers
• Facebook embraces free speech: The masses win, the experts lose - Washington Examiner
• Next-generation nuclear energy developer sues federal regulators
• To Ban TikTok, Supreme Court Would Rank “National Security” Before First Amendment
• Inside the Harmful World of Conversion Therapy with Author Lucas Wilson
• PolitiFact’s Sharockman says Facebook’s decision to remove journalists from its content moderation program has nothing to do with free speech
• Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga | Siva Vaidhyanathan
• The MTA is wasting billions on NYC’s congesting pricing plan
• Connecticut DMV and Top Lawmakers Vow to Review Towing Laws
• Congestion fees’ off-road impact: Letters to the Editor — Jan. 8, 2025
• EXCLUSIVE: Green Investor, Climate Change Activist Charged With Securities Fraud
• Facebook and Instagram will stop using hardline fact-checking programs, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says
• New Orleans attack raises questions about how heavy, quick-accelerating electric vehicles might challenge our infrastructure
• Mark Zuckerberg tells Fox News that Meta will "get rid of fact checkers" in latest appeal to Trump
• Kevin O'Leary says he'll need Donald Trump's help to buy TikTok
• New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s first-in-the-nation ‘congestion pricing’ system charges residents and out-of-state commuters a whopping $9 toll in Midtown Manhattan
• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces major changes to censorship and fact-checking policies
• AVIA Announces Securing American Leadership in Autonomous Vehicles
• My AI-cloned voice was used to spread far-right propaganda. How do we stop the fake audio scam? | Georgina Findlay
• New China spy revelations show why Trump is wrong to resist TikTok ban
• I’m on the congestion-zone border — where Hochul’s toll makes our air WORSE
• Stop overprotecting the children, say courts in Tennessee and California
• LinkedIn is being sued for allegedly violating anti-Semitic rules. Here's why
• Bluesky Proves Stagnant Monopolies Are Strangling the Internet
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company has discovered how to build artificial general intelligence
• Jeff Bezos' media companies kiss Trump's ring…again
• Washington Post cartoonist quits, claiming comic criticizing Bezos was censored
• Apple CEO Tim Cook is reportedly planning to donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund
• Lively vs Baldoni Isn’t Just a Gossip Story
• How r/NYCSnark became the most popular anti-influencer (and potentially anti-feminist) space on Reddit
• Video shows Kamala Harris botching the Pledge of Allegiance while presiding over the U.S. Senate
• Mark Zuckerberg puts Republican in charge of policy as he seeks to make nice with Trump
• Elon Musk’s Tesla will be an also-ran in the global EV market within a decade
• Amazon’s new policy on third-party sellers will test its theory that sellers can’t be pushed off the platform
• America has a mineral security problem, says CFACT’s Farrell Gregory
• Some truck drivers and red states are trying to thwart California’s push toward statewide electric vehicle (ZEV) adoption
• Susie Wiles demands social media silence from Trump nominees ahead of their Senate confirmations
• My new year resolution is to stop using one giant list in my Notes app for literally everything | Patrick Lenton
• The Obstacles to China’s AI Power
• Elon Musk v. MAGA: H-1B Visas, Foreign Workers, Big Tech, and America First - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• 25 tech laws taking effect in 2025
• J.K. Rowling has had quite a time on X over the last five years. Here are some of her best posts from 2024
• ProPublica’s Year in Photos and Video for 2024
• Stronger Patent Protection Will Bolster Economic and National Security
• Jimmy Carter’s legacy White evangelicals are now a Republican constituency
• Heavy car dependency is making American lives less satisfying, study shows
• The Cost of Suicide Prevention Software
• U.S. launches probe into China’s semiconductor industry amid escalating trade tensions
• The Truth Behind Donald Trump’s Tariff Talk with Paul Krugman
• From “Birthright” to “Birthmaybe” With These Easy Steps
• Trump Urges Stay of S. Ct. Proceedings in TikTok Case, Delay of Statutory Effective Date
• Make cars (and everything else) cheap again
• Glenn Beck’s new book, Propaganda Wars: How the Global Elite Control What You See, Think, and Feel, is a warning to all freedom-loving Americans