Starmer’s Looking for an Excuse to Ban X
January 10, 2026
“All options” on the table now includes silencing a global network; an idea once unthinkable in a democracy.
“All options” on the table now includes silencing a global network; an idea once unthinkable in a democracy.
The push to investigate TikTok over anti-EU videos turns algorithmic oversight into Europe’s new battleground for political speech.
A push to regulate algorithms and online speech shows Ireland’s growing willingness to trade digital freedom for centralized control of information.
Washington wanted an alliance on AI; London delivered a lecture on acceptable conversation.
A judge’s demand for chat logs has turned discovery into surveillance, exposing how fragile digital intimacy really is.
Whether the claims are true or not, privacy in Google’s universe has long been less a right than a nostalgic illusion.
Rumble’s Northern Data deal turns its free-speech mission into a full-stack tech play, fusing freedom-based ideology with infrastructure.
The app built on swipes now wants a window into your camera roll, calling it a step toward “deeper connections.”
A plan to keep AI chatbots away from kids might quietly make anonymity online a thing of the past.
A harmless moment became a police takedown, revealing how AI can turn ordinary kids into instant suspects.
It’s a small toggle with big implications for how much say users really have over their digital identities.
Meta is turning casual chats into ad fuel, folding dinner tips and small talk into the same profiling engine that already knows what you scroll past at 2 a.m.
What sounds like side hustle money is really a permanent trade of privacy for pennies.
The internet’s lasting stronghold of anonymity is being dismantled in the name of safety.
The bills pit mental health urgency against the right to private digital conversations.
Age checks for chatbots might sound parental, but they flirt with surveillance-state mechanics.
California bills AB 56 and AB 243 target Meta, Snap, and AI chatbots with warnings and mandatory conversation monitoring.
The edits feel less like enhancements and more like reminders that AI is now part of the creative process, whether you asked for it or not.
Musk’s lawsuit lands as Apple fends off a wave of antitrust salvos from Washington and Silicon Valley alike.
Behavioral profiling now trails you from video views to the search box.
Blocking archivers leaves memory at the mercy of moderation.
Perplexity’s audacious bid for Chrome lands in the middle of a proposed experiment about whether dismantling Big Tech’s empires will actually rewrite the rules of the internet.
A handshake deal replaces a courtroom fight, leaving the biggest legal question about AI defamation for another day.
Whispers meant for one listener became searchable artifacts in the world’s loudest library.
“All options” on the table now includes silencing a global network; an idea once unthinkable in a democracy.
The push to investigate TikTok over anti-EU videos turns algorithmic oversight into Europe’s new battleground for political speech.
A push to regulate algorithms and online speech shows Ireland’s growing willingness to trade digital freedom for centralized control of information.
Washington wanted an alliance on AI; London delivered a lecture on acceptable conversation.
A judge’s demand for chat logs has turned discovery into surveillance, exposing how fragile digital intimacy really is.
Whether the claims are true or not, privacy in Google’s universe has long been less a right than a nostalgic illusion.
Rumble’s Northern Data deal turns its free-speech mission into a full-stack tech play, fusing freedom-based ideology with infrastructure.
The app built on swipes now wants a window into your camera roll, calling it a step toward “deeper connections.”
A plan to keep AI chatbots away from kids might quietly make anonymity online a thing of the past.
A harmless moment became a police takedown, revealing how AI can turn ordinary kids into instant suspects.
It’s a small toggle with big implications for how much say users really have over their digital identities.
Meta is turning casual chats into ad fuel, folding dinner tips and small talk into the same profiling engine that already knows what you scroll past at 2 a.m.
What sounds like side hustle money is really a permanent trade of privacy for pennies.
The internet’s lasting stronghold of anonymity is being dismantled in the name of safety.
The bills pit mental health urgency against the right to private digital conversations.
Age checks for chatbots might sound parental, but they flirt with surveillance-state mechanics.
California bills AB 56 and AB 243 target Meta, Snap, and AI chatbots with warnings and mandatory conversation monitoring.
The edits feel less like enhancements and more like reminders that AI is now part of the creative process, whether you asked for it or not.
Musk’s lawsuit lands as Apple fends off a wave of antitrust salvos from Washington and Silicon Valley alike.
Behavioral profiling now trails you from video views to the search box.
Blocking archivers leaves memory at the mercy of moderation.
Perplexity’s audacious bid for Chrome lands in the middle of a proposed experiment about whether dismantling Big Tech’s empires will actually rewrite the rules of the internet.
A handshake deal replaces a courtroom fight, leaving the biggest legal question about AI defamation for another day.
Whispers meant for one listener became searchable artifacts in the world’s loudest library.