The Retreat of the Open Internet
Self-preservation looks a lot like surrender from the outside.
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Self-preservation looks a lot like surrender from the outside.
The refusal puts American mutual-assistance treaties off the table for European speech prosecutions, and Paris is the first to find out.
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The forecast is free, but you’ve been paying for it with every place you’ve ever visited.
It’s the kind of question that should have been settled years ago, and the silence tells you why it wasn’t.
Government-built surveillance tools keep ending up in criminal hands, and the people who build them keep acting surprised.
The throwaway account you made years ago is sitting in a database, waiting for a system that costs less than a tank of gas to read it.
One developer has already registered their distribution under the law’s own definitions and declared intentional noncompliance on the front page.
The ad that followed you around the internet turns out to be the least invasive thing it was doing.
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The Commission built the app on the same architecture as its planned continental digital identity wallet. That’s not a coincidence.
The First Amendment was designed to prevent exactly this; a law that punishes speech before any court decides whether it was harmful.
Every agency involved had the information to stop the Southport attacker, and the inquiry’s answer is to track what the entire country browses, buys, and whether they use a VPN.
The agency running more warrantless searches of Americans’ data than ever is the one asking Congress for more time and fewer rules.
A California judge just decided who gets to use ChatGPT, and the person banned from it wasn’t even in the courtroom.
Turkey’s government just found a way to put a national ID card on every tweet, post, and comment its citizens make online.
Microsoft wants your face, your passport, or your national ID, just to keep playing the games sitting on your account.
Ofcom now sends the bill for policing the internet directly to the companies being policed, and the meter just started running.
The government lost its case in open court, so it moved the whole thing behind closed doors.
Every adult in Massachusetts would have to hand their ID to a tech company just to keep scrolling.
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