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The bill’s child protection framing obscures what it actually creates: a legal architecture for government-controlled internet access that has no natural stopping point.
Another country is moving toward getting in line with the agenda.
A student who shared a pandemic video in a private chat walked away cleared, with a tribunal drawing a line that offended feelings and illegal discrimination are not the same thing.
Microsoft’s new “context preservation” keeps you from losing the thread of your conversation and keeps you inside Microsoft’s browser engine, whether you want to be there or not.
The episode handed British regulators the pretext they’d been waiting for to wire censorship directly into the software itself.
Three states are using child safety as the wrapper for laws that would require adults to prove their identity to a third party just to turn on a computer.
The same officials who ordered the crackdown also wrote the definition of what counts as disinformation.
The bill’s child safety framing is doing a lot of work to normalize what is, in practice, a government-linked identity layer baked into every device you own before you open a single app.
The message that leaves your keyboard is not the message that arrives.
The same government that already bars under-16s from social media is now coming for AI chatbots, app stores, and search engines.
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