Tech Freedom
Big tech is lobbying hard against state privacy laws
Tech giants say they don’t want individual state privacy laws.
FTC chairman says Facebook merging with Instagram and WhatsApp will make it difficult to break up
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to unify the messaging features of Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Major big tech antitrust investigation to start as early as September
The big tech companies are facing mounting pressure from various US federal departments.
FTC Chairman Joseph Simons says he’s fully willing to break up big tech
Simons says it “could be the right remedy to rein in dominant companies and restore competition.”
Facebook backed down on Houseparty acquisition due to antitrust scrutiny
Facebook had planned to gobble up even more of the social media market.
67 percent of Americans believe big tech companies have behaved anticompetitively
More people that ever think big tech companies should face antitrust scrutiny.
New bill set to fine big tech companies up to 30% of their revenue for monopolistic practices
The US Senate seems to have fallen out of love with tech companies.
DuckDuckGo calls on regulators to help consumers as Google announces pay-to-play default search engine scheme
Google were forced to offer alternative default search engines on Android – but now they want search engines to bid for the chance to appear as a default option.
Tulsi Gabbard: to protect free speech online, break up big tech monopolies
Gabbard has consistently spoken out against censorship and promoted free speech online.
Amazon and Microsoft now control half of the entire cloud infrastructure market
The illusion of choice is getting weaker.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is working to break it up
Hughes is working with a group of academics to tackle Facebook’s monopoly.
Australian watchdog to call on Google and Facebook to reveal their algorithms
A major new report released today, outlines all the was Australia wants to rein in big tech. And forcing tech companies to reveal their algorithms is one of the recommendations.