Author: Cam Wakefield
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UK Police Warn Man Over Pub Tweets
Two officers, one pint, and a politician’s hurt feelings walk into a Chiswick pub. Nobody breaks a law, and somehow…
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EU’s New Creator Press Passes Come With a Loyalty Test
Brussels is vetting cameras for loyalty and calling it press freedom in the same breath.
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Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Failed. The Government’s Fix Is to Double the Fines
The fines just doubled for a law that eighty-five percent of Australian teenagers already ignore.
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How Britain Plans to Lock Legacy Media Into People’s Feeds
The public spent years drifting away from legacy broadcasters, so the state plans to algorithmically drag them back.
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Starmer’s Social Media Ban: the Reinvention of the Surveillance State
Tyranny masquerading as child safety needs you to feel guilty before you feel suspicious. Downing Street is counting on it.
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Ofcom’s Crisis Censorship Protocol Arrives Just as Belfast Erupts
A direct hotline between police and platform moderation desks is just a state-to-delete pipeline without the paperwork or a court…
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Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones
It is sold as a child-lock and built as a search warrant for every phone in the country.
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UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse
Refusing to install state spyware would put tech executives in prison for five years.
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“Dystopian” Police.AI Launches in UK Amid False Arrests
The £115 million pitch is speed but one of its early matches sent a software engineer to a cell for…
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Westminster Recycles Tobacco-Style Panic Campaign For Internet Crackdown
Somewhere in Westminster a whiteboard has “free speech = tobacco” written on it with three exclamation marks.
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Britain Decides Viral Protest Clips Need Prosecutors
Your chant at a march is now judged not by the crowd around you but by how a stranger might…
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Britain’s Pre-Decided “Consultation” on Banning Social Media for Under-16s
The verification system needed to keep teenagers off Instagram happens to be the same one needed to track everyone else.