Otherweb Archive - Opinion - Tech

• 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
• WhatsApp's Simplicity Powers Communication for 3 Billion Users
• Byrne Hobart: How can we end stagnation?
• General Motors, Ford, and Toyota pledge $1 million each to Trump’s inauguration
• The Guardian view on digital media: the case for better regulation must be made | Editorial
• Microsoft Bundling Practices Focus of Federal Antitrust Probe
• 2024 in Review: What the WNBA Salary Debate Misses
• Longing for the Era of Economy Cars and Real Fuel Efficiency - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• I spent a week working, exercising and relaxing in virtual reality. I’m shocked to say it finally works | Ed Newton-Rex
• Best of 2024 Encore: Who TF Did Reesa Teesa Marry?
• 2024 in Review: Why Miss USA is Imploding
• Attempts at a Technological Solution to Disinformation Will Do More Harm Than Good | ACLU
• 2024 in Review: Wait, Is JUUL Banned or Not?
• Since Trump’s reelection, Big Tech executives are bending the knee rather than kneecap their former foe
• 2024 in Review: Would You Die For MrBeast?
• From Behind the Money: Why Northvolt Failed to Become Europe’s Battery Champion
• The case for banning cell phones in schools
• What will Australian media look like in 2025? Messy and imperfect but with glimmers of hope | Meg Simons
• What the US can learn from Australia’s new social media ban for kids
• Biden White House spent $300 million on Reuters, according to State Dept. official
• Apple is a better example of a predatory infringer than Big Tech, says Adam Mossoff
• Get Your Slate Plus podcast: It’s time to crown this year’s funniest, floppiest moments online
• Hero of 2024: An actually good, soul-enriching Instagram
• Trump can make the U.S. auto industry great again in his second term
• Guillaume Verdon: Should we have a 'Second Amendment for AI’?
• 'Child trafficking' sting video turns out to be toy drive
• School Violence and Misplaced Faith in Cellphones
• Global Investigative Journalism Network: Bangla Editor
• Trump's infrastructure "fantasy": Ditch mass transit for self-driving cars, private highways
• Aaron Kaplowitz: Israel’s hard-won tech can solve New Jersey drones mystery — and protect US skies
• CPS is investigating an influencer because her son flinched in a video
• First Amendment Censorship Claims Against Stanford Internet Observatory Can Go Forward to Discovery as to Jurisdiction and Standing
• The Christian Nationalist "TheoBros" have, uh, thoughts about antisemitism
• Steamy or Stale? Analyzing the Sex and Storytelling in Queer
• Donald Trump must not block the TikTok ban — it’s the ULTIMATE battle against abuse by Big Tech and Big (Foreign) Gov
• Beuchert’s Saloon part-time server Suzannah Van Rooy has been fired for her anti-Trump comments
• Judge Rejects Meta's Attempt to Seal Various Information About Moderating Practices
• Australians are gripped by feelings of doom about the state of the world. It’s time to throw the phone away | Peter Lewis
• MTA’s costly fare-evader study: Letters to the Editor — Dec. 17, 2024
• Digital Threats: Fourth Cyber Investigations Training Course
• How an Old-School New York Times Columnist Became Social Media’s Most Unlikely Star
• This week's Daily Wire: Make Hollywood Great Again
• We have allowed British children to be groomed by predators on social media. That ends now | Peter Kyle
• "Trump's stooge" gets his reward
• I’ve seen too much heartbreak —House must pass landmark Kids Online Safety Act
• The Surveillance State: Who will defend our rights?
• OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco
• TikTok ban allowed to go forward as case heads to Supreme Court
• Berkshire Schools has great ideas for use of grant | Editorial
• A new investment fund is saying ‘no’ to DEI-focused companies.
• Netflix Employee Salad Days are Over
• Get Your Slate Plus: 3 Internet Stories We Missed In 2024
• Palantir CTO says the U.S. needs to produce the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo ship
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly planning to donate to President-elect Trump’s inaugural fund
• State Department says it's 'substantially likely' to shut down its Global Engagement Center on December 23
• Sen. Markwayne Mullin says social media has ruined Congress’s ability to negotiate behind closed doors
• Trump may scrap a crash-reporting requirement that makes Tesla look bad: Reuters
• TikTok lost its bid to overturn a U.S. law requiring it to find an American owner or face a U.S. ban
• The Albanese government’s news bargaining incentive will force platforms back to the existing code | Rod Sims
• Donât Fall for the Fiction on Firearm Suppressors
• The End and Beginning of the Lina Khan Era
• South Korean companies are reconsidering investments in U.S. EV battery plants due to Trump's proposed tax cuts
• Krugman’s Farewell Blues in the Times - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• How Daniel Penny Walked Free
• Bacchanals, Grottos, and Secret Gardens: How Turn-of-the-Century Lesbians Queered the Italian Countryside
• Americans Need Brendan Carr as FCC Chair to Rein in Big Tech - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• The global winds of censorship
• Time to crack down on lawless e-bikers sowing mayhem on NYC’s streets
• Court: Internet in general and social media in particular pose grave risks to children
• Interesting Illustration of International Subpoenas Aimed at Identifying Alleged Online Defamers
• Money Talks: Scandal Hugh Son explains how users were left holding the bag after a failure
• Riot Games plans to punish players in-game for alleged violations that occurred on non-Riot services
• Gov. Stitt's 'Green' Energy Plans Will Only Hurt Oklahomans
• A.I. Is About to Get a Whole Lot Worse Under Trump
• Google Cloud Vision describes the recent Trump-Macron handshake
• The latest cost of Brexit is about to hit – and voters are watching. Will Labour act? | Polly Toynbee
• Trump is coming for big tech
• Putting citizen experience at the heart of AI-driven public services
• Charting a New Course for Rail Policy in 2025
• Skills policy and industrial strategies must be joined up
• Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle
• We need a ‘Manhattan Project’ to beat China in the new war over rare-earth minerals
• Who is Liable for Car Accidents on Private Property?
• Trump Tackles Government Waste, Digital Currency, Space With Slew of Nominees
• Donald Trump should nominate digital freedom fighter Andrew Ferguson to chair FTC
• YouTube will demonetize videos that teach viewers how to create AI-generated porn
• U.N. plastics treaty talks collapse
• D.C. circuit court upholds TikTok ban, prioritizing 'national security' over free speech