Macron, Merz, and von der Leyen Defend Expanded Speech Controls
The Munich Security Conference just became a defense session for Europe’s most ambitious censorship regime.
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The Munich Security Conference just became a defense session for Europe’s most ambitious censorship regime.
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The bill’s supporters call it child protection; its architecture looks more like a national ID system for the internet.
Ofcom is pressing ahead with enforcement against a US platform over speech rules controversial even in Britain, as the platform argues in US federal court that Ofcom has no jurisdiction.
Russia’s 100 million WhatsApp users are being nudged toward Max, a Kremlin-friendly app that doesn’t offer end-to-end encryption.
Google handed over credit card numbers, IP addresses, and phone records tied to a student’s account without a warrant, and without telling him it had happened.
Britain is trying to extend its regulatory reach to force digital ID-style age checks onto global platforms.
Victoria calls it a paperwork fix for kindergarten, but the state just gave newborns a digital identity before they can say their own names.
The country’s Supreme Court created the crime she’s accused of without asking Congress, and now a veterinary student faces a decade in prison for arguments she made on Twitter in 2020.
Durov’s defiance comes as Moscow tries the same playbook that failed in Iran, only this time with a homegrown WeChat waiting in the wings.
The bill never says “show your ID,” but it quietly demands systems that make anonymous speech impossible.
The Legislature waved it through, but HB161 locks mandatory age checks and parent-linked accounts into the foundation of Alabama’s app ecosystem.
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