{"id":215229,"date":"2026-03-20T18:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215229"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:54:35","slug":"the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=215229","title":{"rendered":"The Download: the US digital rights crackdown, and AI companionship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s edition of\u00a0The Download,\u00a0our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what\u2019s going on in the world of technology. What it\u2019s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate\u00a0\u00a0 Just before Christmas the Trump administration dramatically escalated its war on digital rights by banning five people from entering the\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/01\/19\/1131450\/the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s edition of\u00a0The Download,\u00a0our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215229-the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215229-the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215229-the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215229-the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215229-the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215229-the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215229-the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship.jpg",1200,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215229-the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215229-the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/215229-the-download-the-us-digital-rights-crackdown-and-ai-companionship-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}