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Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
Writing from London, Steve Blank argues that the reported throttling of Starshield to Ukraine, apparently ordered by Elon Musk, has convinced European policymakers that U.S. technology carries a kill-switch risk, and that AI now makes building sovereign alternatives to American software feasible, at a long-term cost to U.S. companies.
3 min · 624 words
Canadians Are Running Out Of Time To Oppose The Dangerous C-22 Surveillance Bill
EFF's Joe Mullin warns that Canada's Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, has passed the House of Commons and now sits before the Senate, and urges Canadians to oppose its expansion of surveillance powers and cross-border data sharing with US police.
2 min · 395 words
How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill
Matt Stoller argues that Federal Reserve rate hikes raise electricity bills, property taxes, mortgage and auto costs and the price of working capital while favouring cash-rich AI giants, and that it is time to drop illusions about the central bank as the only answer to inflation.
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Mistral AI co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch argues it would be a fundamental mistake for Europe to leave frontier AI models to the US and China. Pointing to the €260B+ Europe pays yearly to American cloud and software providers, he says whoever controls a model sets the terms, that open models only partly help, and that frontier AI is now a matter of security and science.
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Ollie Green argues that after AI companies got away with large-scale IP use for training, AI's ability to decompile, understand and recompose software and other knowledge work is now driving the value of prior work toward zero, collapsing the scarcity that intellectual property was built to protect.
2 min · 442 words
Responding to George Hotz's short post on American lobbying, Antonin Carette argues from a European perspective that lobbying is simply legal corruption, pointing to Wikipedia's definition of corruption, which explicitly includes lobbying and describes power abused within the law.
1 min · 324 words
When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information
EFF examines who gets locked out when age verification laws require identity documents to go online, surveying new mandates in Australia, India, the UK and US states and arguing that ID-based checks exclude people without documents and threaten the right to access information.
5 min · 1,071 words
Broadcasting conglomerates are attempting a takeover of over-the-air television. We must defend it.
Reese Armstrong argues that broadcasters' push to let the FCC approve ATSC 3.0 (NextGenTV) content encryption would hand an industry group control over which tuners can watch free over-the-air TV, traces the public-interest history of broadcasting, and urges readers to comment on FCC docket 16-142.
4 min · 813 words
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
A former OpenAI safety-team lead resigns and argues the lab’s culture and incentives guarantee more safety failures—why internal process and product pressure undercut the work meant to prevent them.
6 min · 1,305 words
Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name
EFF's Katharine Trendacosta argues the DEFEND IP Act, like earlier US site-blocking bills from SOPA/PIPA onward, would incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad-faith blocking while giving targeted site owners no real way to challenge orders.
2 min · 563 words