Tech & Free Speech
'Wheel of Fortune' Fires Announcer After Passenger Spots Alleged Pedo Chat
A citizen caught what Big Tech's dragnet missed—and cops let him walk in five minutes.
September 5, 2026
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Tech & Free Speech tracks Big Tech power, censorship, deplatforming, surveillance, and AI — the fight for free speech online and in the public square. Every story ties platform policy to real-world consequences for users and publishers.
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Musk's Cybercabs Hit Austin — And Every Ride Is a Data Harvest
The press calls Musk's steering-wheel-free taxis progress. Nobody's talking about the rolling surveillance inside.
September 4, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Exploited Chrome Zero-Day Exposes Google's Insecure Surveillance State
Google hoards your data but can't secure its own browser, patching the sixth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of the year.
September 4, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google's New Weather AI Feeds Live Satellite Data Into the Surveillance Machine
WeatherNext 3 promises better forecasts — and gives a tracking monopoly another real-time data pipeline it doesn't need your consent to run.
September 4, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
AI Giants Blow Billions on Models, Won't Pay Their Guards
Union security guards at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta authorize a strike while their bosses blow billions on AI.
September 3, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Judge Shields Google Ad Monopoly, Rejects DOJ Breakup
Judge admits Google broke the law but opts for a slap on the wrist over a breakup, preserving Big Tech's rigged ad market.
September 3, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Leipzig Drone Bomb: Russia Blamed, But US Infrastructure Remains Wide Open
Germany blames Moscow for the Leipzig drone, but cheap weaponized tech is proliferating—and American infrastructure remains defenseless.
September 2, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Meta Drops $137.5B on AI — Wall Street Cheers, You Get Surveilled
CNBC sees 'tangible results.' Working Americans get sharper ad targeting, deeper surveillance, and a chatbot they don't need.
September 1, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Meta Tests Robots to Replace 80% of Data Center Workers
Big Tech sold communities on jobs, then built machines to make workers obsolete.
September 1, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Southbridge Dumps Flock Surveillance—Fourth Amendment Wins One
Massachusetts town kills Flock license plate readers after community pushback, joining municipalities rejecting warrantless tracking.
September 1, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Quietly Hikes Google TV Streamer 50% Overnight
Google jacks the Streamer from $99 to $149 with zero warning. Big Tech's AI obsession ate the RAM supply, and you're stuck with the bill.
September 1, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Trump Tells Data Center Critics They Want to Be 'Backwards and Poor' as Bills Skyrocket
The president dismisses bipartisan backlash to Big Tech's AI buildout, but locals are footing the power bill for negligible permanent jobs.
August 31, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Tim Cook Out as Apple CEO, Keeps Board and Policy Roles
The man who bent Apple to Beijing and censored Americans hands the reins to his hardware chief, but keeps his board seat and policymaking power.
August 31, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Meta's $17B Settlement Lets Zuck Write the Harm Rules
State AGs handed Zuck the pen: a deal that barely dents Meta's bottom line and lets the company define what counts as harm.
August 31, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Targets Hollywood IP to Train Its AI
The same giant that silences dissent is courting studios for AI training data—while Washington sits on its hands.
August 31, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Build Your Own Offline Wikipedia Before Big Tech Decides What You Read
Open-source project fits 285,000 Wikipedia articles on a $10 microcontroller — no internet, no gatekeepers, no censorship.
August 31, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Forces Gemini AI Into Every App by Default — Opt Out or Feed the Machine
Escaping Google's AI assistant requires digging through five separate settings menus—and even then, you can't fully scrub the icons.
August 30, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Apple Watch Series 12 Harvests Your Heart 24/7 — Press Cheers
Tech press cheers 24/7 heart-rate tracking as a 'health upgrade,' but who profits from your biometric data?
August 30, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Pixel 11: You Own the Hardware, Google Owns the Features
The tech press fawns over water resistance and locked RGB lights while Silicon Valley's real business—harvesting your data—goes unquestioned.
August 30, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Your Oura Ring Is a Snitch: Fitness Tracker Leads Cops to Victim's Grave
A Utah murder case proves the wellness industry is the surveillance state's favorite Trojan horse.
August 30, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Scrambles to Rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America' After Trump Order
Big Tech spent years silencing conservatives. Now it's rushing to comply with Trump's renaming. What's the play?
August 30, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Health 5.07 Expands Biometric Data Harvest
Expanded tracking gives Google a clearer picture of your body — while you get no say where that data goes.
August 29, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Big Tech Moves Data Centers To Space, Beyond Accountability
Americans blocked ground-based server farms, so Big Tech is launching data centers into orbit—where oversight ends.
August 29, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
OpenAI Axes Cursor Access After SpaceX Deal—Big Tech Cancels What It Can't Beat
OpenAI weaponizes its terms of service to kneecap Musk's empire, cutting off a coding tool that barely relied on its models anyway.
August 29, 2026
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