DOGE Didn't Cut Government Waste. It Was Government Waste(techdirt.com)

30 points by hn_acker 7 months ago | 0 comments

Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He's Eager to Be America's Top Censor(techdirt.com)

14 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 5 comments

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could(techdirt.com)

177 points by cdrnsf 8 months ago | 48 comments

State Governments Can’t Resist the Siren Song of Censorship(techdirt.com)

79 points by rntn 3 years ago | 73 comments

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs–and They Have No Idea What They're Doing(techdirt.com)

56 points by speckx 10 months ago | 11 comments

Sens Ask Gabbard to Tell Americans That VPN Use Subjects Them to Surveillance(techdirt.com)

24 points by c420 6 months ago | 3 comments

Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers(techdirt.com)

366 points by rntn 2 years ago | 167 comments

Techdirt article on Senator Ron Wyden's letter revealing that the NSA buys Americans' data, including location data, from commercial data brokers.

NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist(axios.com)

406 points by Palmik 6 months ago | 292 comments

Reuters news article relaying an Axios report that the NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos AI model despite a government blacklist.

OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites(bbc.com)

98 points by Betelbuddy 1 month ago | 155 comments

BBC News article reporting that OpenAI bots interfered with multiple US government agency websites.

Senate Bill to Ban TikTok(congress.gov)

485 points by WUMBOWUMBO 3 years ago | 440 comments

Congress.gov page for S.686, the RESTRICT Act, a 118th Congress Senate bill sponsored by Sen. Mark Warner, introduced March 7, 2023 and referred to the Commerce Committee.

Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties(pressaudit.org)

30 points by SLHamlet 17 days ago | 1 comments

A PressAudit report by Paul Renshaw on how Republican support for data centers drops locally as proposed sites move into more Republican counties.

The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”(thebignewsletter.com)

637 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 569 comments

Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter post on the FTC and 17 states' antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Amazon over practices that stop merchants from discounting elsewhere.