New Orders are Scrubbing the Internet of Equity, Dismantling Transparency, and Making it Harder To Implement Bipartisan Law The continued attacks on DEI are making the Digital Equity Act harder to follow.

What happens to the bipartisan Digital Equity Act when all equity-related data is being scrubbed from government websites? Read the latest from Public Knowledge Fellow Peter Gregory:

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The US State Department is forcing all of its employees to cancel subscriptions to any Trump-unfriendly media.

Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.

NEW: The US is in the midst of a political coup that, if successful, would forever change the nature of its government, writes Eryk Salvaggio. But this coup is not taking place in the streets. It's taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy.

Faith Nation: January 17, 2025 Faith Nation - The Supreme Court Upholds a Law Banning TikTok - 1/17/25

Last Friday, @publicknowledge.bsky.social President & CEO @chrisjlewis.bsky.social joined CBN's Faith Nation to discuss the impacts of the Supreme Court's ruling in the TikTok trial- watch the interview below 👇

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Sixth Circuit Ruling on FCC Authority Threatens Consumer Protections and Open Internet Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.

🚨 Today, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced its decision in Ohio Telecom Association v. FCC, rejecting the FCC’s authority to classify broadband as a telecommunications service and enforce the #netneutrality rules enacted in its April 2024 Order. Read our statement from @punk.cool:

Good news for McFlurry fans! 🍦 Today, the US Copyright Office partially granted an exemption request from @publicknowledge.bsky.social & iFixit to allow people to circumvent digital locks in order to repair commercial and industrial equipment.

Americans should have the right to repair the products they own.

Why the DOJ’s Google Ad Tech Case Matters to You | TechPolicy.Press Digital ads erode privacy and hurt publishers. DOJ’s antitrust suit exemplifies Google’s role in creating and sustaining these issues, writes Lisa Macpherson.

Policy Director for @publicknowledge.bsky.social, Lisa Macpherson describes the transformation of advertising in the digital age, its harms to publishers and the public, and how the #DOJ’s case against #Google exemplifies the company’s role in driving and sustaining the issues.

The Onion acquiring Infowars happened because BlueSky made a joke to @bencollins.bsky.social, and @bencollins.bsky.social working to acquire The Onion happened because he made a joke on BlueSky.

Basically, joke about your dreams on BlueSky, it's a wish factory.

Some people cannot comprehend that the exodus from X is not 'liberal flight' but a lot of people deciding that the content on the platform - hate/extremism, disinformation, violent/nsfw content, low quality ads, lax responses to user reports, suppression of content - just can't be ignored any more.

Joe Biden, wearing aviators and eating an ice cream cone while flashing two ten-dollar bills

TFW the FTC and DOJ show up swinging to let people fix McFlurry machines www.ftc.gov/system/files...

Twitch Shuts Down in South Korea: A Reminder of Why We Fight For Net Neutrality South Korea provides an important natural experiment in what happens when you permit broadband providers to charge content providers like Twitch for access.

Twitch recently announced it was leaving South Korea in response to "termination fees" — charges from ISPs to receive online traffic. Read the latest from @haroldfeld.bsky.social @nickgarcia.bsky.social on why this highlights the need for strong net neutrality rules to prevent a repeat in the US:

FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel Announces Plan To Reinstate Title II Broadband Authority, Net Neutrality ... Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.

Great news for internet users! @jrosenworcel.bsky.social's announcement of an NPRM on Title II classification for broadband is a glimmer of hope for #netneutrality. @publicknowledge.bsky.social is proud to support this move — read our full statement from @chrisjlewis.bsky.social:

U.S. v. Google: They Pay How Much To Be the Default Search Engine?! Recapping Week One Search engine defaults seem to be pretty important when it comes to dominating the search engine market — and quite expensive as well.

My thoughts from week one of #USvGoogle!

Lies, Damn Lies, and Generative Artificial Intelligence: How GAI Automates Disinformation and What W... The recent explosion of generative AI brings many potential benefits to society, but along with these come just as many risks.

If "hallucinations" from AI models weren't bad enough, the use of their content to train other models results in a polluted information environment increasingly far from reality. Read more from Lisa Macpherson on the impact of AI on access to information: