Tech & Free Speech
Google's $899 Pixel 11 Ships With Same Broken GPU — Again
Same PowerVR GPU failure, same empty promises, higher price. Big Tech ships defective hardware and expects you to pay.
August 24, 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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Big Tech Circles Hugging Face: $13B To End Open-Source AI
The last open-source AI hub is on the auction block. If Big Tech wins, unrestricted AI access dies.
August 24, 2026
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Apple, Google, Samsung Kill Updates for Millions of Working Smartwatches
Three years and you're out: Big Tech bricks security on the hardware you already paid for.
August 23, 2026
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Motorola GrapheneOS Phones Break Google Monopoly—But Working Americans Can't Pay
Privacy-focused GrapheneOS escapes Google's Pixel dependency, but flagship pricing keeps surveillance-free tech out of reach for working Americans.
August 23, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
DOJ Shakes Down TikTok for $400M While US Tech Skates
The feds took $400M from a foreign platform for privacy violations—but don't expect them to protect your kids from domestic data harvesters.
August 23, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
HP's $499 Snapdragon X Laptop Breaks the Apple-Intel Oligopoly
The OmniBook 3 undercuts Apple's MacBook Neo by $200 and ditches Intel for Qualcomm — real competition finally arrives for working buyers.
August 23, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Pixel 10a: Cheap Phone, Expensive Privacy
Google slashes hardware to hit $499, but your data pays the difference.
August 23, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google’s $1,800 Pixel Fold Breaks the Same Way for the Fourth Time
The same company charging $1,800 for a phone that snaps in half wants to control your data.
August 22, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Take-Two Subpoenas Can't Unmask GTA 6 Leaker
The suits are throwing subpoenas, but corporate control over information is collapsing.
August 22, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Big Tech Data Centers Get Special TVA Rates While You Pay Full Freight
Google and Meta get a sweetheart utility deal while ordinary ratepayers fund the grid powering their surveillance AI.
August 22, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Meta's 'Hook, Hold, Harvest, Hide' Strategy Exposed at Trial
The platform that silences Americans deliberately addicted kids and hid the damage — internal docs prove it.
August 22, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Verizon's 'Free' Pixel 11 Pro Deal Is a Surveillance Contract
They get your data, location, and digital life. You get a phone.
August 22, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Rape Suspect Tracked on Facebook Live. So Are You.
A fugitive broadcast his own location. The same surveillance grid in his pocket is in yours.
August 21, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Wants $1,000 for the Cure to Its Own Scrolling Addiction
Google built the addiction machine. Now it wants $1,000 for the off switch.
August 21, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Gemini Deep Research: AI Now Reads Your Private Files
Gemini's new feature combs your Gmail, Drive, and files to build reports. Convenient — and a surveillance tool in your pocket.
August 21, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Zuckerberg Drops $35M on Irish Castle While Meta Censors Americans
Meta's CEO drops $35 million on a feudal Irish estate while his platforms throttle, shadow-ban, and deplatform American voices at home.
August 21, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Apple, Google News Bury Right-Leaning Outlets; FTC Must Act
A new study reveals major news aggregators promote zero right-leaning outlets, algorithmically silencing half the country.
August 21, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
St. Charles County Axes Flock Cameras After Surveillance Abuse
A county pulled the plug after an employee abused license plate readers, but Flock's AI surveillance empire keeps expanding.
August 20, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Wall Street Cheers Meta Stock Dip; Main Street Pays Price
Wall Street sees a buying opportunity, but ordinary Americans are left with a tech giant that answers to shareholders, not families.
August 20, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Meta Censors Speech Precisely, Fails 60% of Kid Safety Features
Zuckerberg's empire censors Americans effortlessly but can't keep predators off Instagram.
August 20, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
American Towns Boot Flock AI Surveillance Cameras
From Texas to Arizona, communities are voting to rip out AI license plate trackers as bipartisan opposition to mass surveillance surges.
August 20, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Meta Insider Tells Jury: Zuckerberg Culture Made Child Safety Impossible
The company that censors your speech ignored real harm to kids because Zuckerberg didn't want to hear it, a former insider testified.
August 20, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
One Billion Plate Reads a Year: The Surveillance Grid Already Here
Maryland alone logged 271 million scans of law-abiding drivers — and cops are using the same network to stalk exes.
August 19, 2026
Tech & Free Speech
Google Nest Outage Bricks Devices, But The Mics Stay On
A massive outage bricked Nest and Home devices worldwide, but the data pipeline back to Mountain View likely never missed a beat.
August 19, 2026
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