Free Speech
Every bill we’re tracking on free speech, with clear summaries of its provisions, status, and effects.
16 & Up Social Media Act
Would exclude under-16s from covered social platforms and pressure services to determine users' ages, threatening anonymous participation and lawful speech.
California Age-Estimation and Child Design Law (AB 2246)
Orders services likely to attract children to estimate users' ages or treat everyone as a child, turning a law advertised as privacy protection into another mass-classification mandate.
California Social Media Child-Injury Liability Law (AB 2)
Uses vague negligence claims and damages of up to $1 million per child to pressure large platforms into suppressing lawful content and identifying which users are minors.
Sunset Section 230 Act (H.R. 10332)
Would repeal Section 230 and make hosting other people's speech a legal hazard, driving forums and independent sites toward mass deletion, surveillance, or closure.
Australia Social Media Minimum Age Enforcement Bill
Expands eSafety’s information-gathering powers and doubles maximum civil penalties under Australia’s social media minimum-age framework.
Australia Digital Duty of Care (Consultation Draft)
A government consultation draft combining social-media feed choice with broader online-safety duties enforced by eSafety.
HOMEFRONT Act of 2026
Would block US enforcement and government assistance for foreign censorship orders targeting constitutionally protected speech, while giving American targets a federal remedy.
California Worship Buffer-Zone Bill (AB 2664)
Makes it a crime within 100 feet of a place of worship to approach within eight feet without consent to leaflet, display a sign, protest, or educate.
GRANITE Act
Would block US courts from enforcing foreign censorship orders and let Americans seek a federal declaration that those demands are unenforceable.
New York S895B (Stop Hiding Hate Act)
New York makes large social media companies file twice-yearly reports with the attorney general on how they define and police hate speech, misinformation, extremism, harassment and foreign political interference.
California AB 2624 (“Stop Nick Shirley Act”)
Shields immigration-support workers' addresses but also expands liability over publishing their names, images, employment details, and other broadly defined personal information.
Parental Approval for Youth Social Media Act of 2026
Would make social-media accounts for under-16s depend on verified parental permission, pressuring platforms to classify every user by age and connect children’s accounts to verified adults.
Northern Ireland Conversion Practices Bill
Criminal offences covering conversion practices raise speech concerns through broad definitions of therapy and psychological harm.
Accountability for Government Censorship Act
Would force federal agencies to disclose their attempts to make platforms remove, suppress, label, or restrict access to lawful speech.
Australia Fix Our Feeds Bill
Would let social-media users switch off algorithmic recommendations and impose wider platform risk-assessment and reporting duties.
Australia Hate and Extremism Act 2026
Creates an executive blacklist for prohibited hate groups and criminalizes membership, recruitment, funding, and support, extending state power from violent acts to association and expression.
California Election Deepfake Law (AB 2839)
California’s election-deepfake restrictions were held unconstitutional in August 2025; the permanent injunction bars enforcement against the named plaintiffs.
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