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The party could ask Germans to show their papers before they can post a tweet.
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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.
The moment journalists could see how criminal courts actually functioned, the instinct inside the system was to make the visibility vanish rather than fix what it exposed.
California is betting that code and blueprints can be treated as contraband by not calling it speech.
Ring’s lost-dog story worked because it framed a live, neighborhood-scale surveillance network as an act of kindness rather than a system already watching.
Discord’s age gates also hinge on constant behavioral monitoring that shadows users across the platform.
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