Blake Lively Wants Names and IP Addresses
July 22, 2025
From hobbyist astrologers to mid-tier YouTubers, anyone who speculated too freely is now being treated like a digital accomplice to coordinated defamation.
From hobbyist astrologers to mid-tier YouTubers, anyone who speculated too freely is now being treated like a digital accomplice to coordinated defamation.
A satirical meme case ends in acquittal as the court draws a hard line between digital provocation and criminal conspiracy.
The new system cuts out intermediaries, letting fans connect with creators on their own terms.
Nexus Mods prepares age checks for UK and EU users under the controversial Online Safety Act and Digital Services Act rules.
The Patriot Package transforms Truth Social from a platform into a parallel media universe.
Florida blocks public funds for media monitoring firms in new law signed by Ron DeSantis after growing censorship concerns.
A federal judge calls Anthropic’s book-scanning strategy transformative, likening author concerns to objections over teaching kids to write.
AI-generated fan art is now a billion-dollar battleground where Disney and NBCUniversal demand the final cut.
A viral political channel vanished overnight after CBC bragged about pulling the strings behind its takedown.
A decentralized internet gets a backbone as Rumble Cloud plugs into TRON’s sprawling blockchain ecosystem.
Congress is building a censorship machine disguised as child protection and artist rights.
Trump Media expands Truth+ to Roku, Samsung, and LG connected TVs, extending its proprietary streaming platform’s device reach.
A law signed with ceremony and bipartisan applause, but built on the same brittle scaffolding that once turned copyright into a cudgel.
Users are left guessing whether Pinterest’s moderation is glitching or quietly redefining its boundaries.
Google sidesteps AI opt-outs by classifying web data as fair game once it’s funneled into search.
By criminalizing unauthorized deepfakes, Denmark flirts with a future where identity protection and speech control are forced into the same uneasy frame.
What starts as a war on deepfakes ends with jail time for posting a meme.
A law built to scrub AI nudes from the internet might also be used as a no-questions-asked censorship mechanism.
LaLiga’s piracy war hands a private sports league the power to black out global tech infrastructure at will.
Turning ad networks into silencers, Ireland’s “disinfo” playbook makes dissent a financial liability.
Compliance, Vahey warns, could rewrite the rules of the entire internet.
The judge’s patience wore thin as Media Matters scrambled to unify lawsuits it let scatter across three continents.
A bill with bipartisan shine and a name fit for a blockbuster masks a blank check for online erasure.
Lawmakers push child safety laws that could gut online anonymity.
From hobbyist astrologers to mid-tier YouTubers, anyone who speculated too freely is now being treated like a digital accomplice to coordinated defamation.
A satirical meme case ends in acquittal as the court draws a hard line between digital provocation and criminal conspiracy.
The new system cuts out intermediaries, letting fans connect with creators on their own terms.
Nexus Mods prepares age checks for UK and EU users under the controversial Online Safety Act and Digital Services Act rules.
The Patriot Package transforms Truth Social from a platform into a parallel media universe.
Florida blocks public funds for media monitoring firms in new law signed by Ron DeSantis after growing censorship concerns.
A federal judge calls Anthropic’s book-scanning strategy transformative, likening author concerns to objections over teaching kids to write.
AI-generated fan art is now a billion-dollar battleground where Disney and NBCUniversal demand the final cut.
A viral political channel vanished overnight after CBC bragged about pulling the strings behind its takedown.
A decentralized internet gets a backbone as Rumble Cloud plugs into TRON’s sprawling blockchain ecosystem.
Congress is building a censorship machine disguised as child protection and artist rights.
Trump Media expands Truth+ to Roku, Samsung, and LG connected TVs, extending its proprietary streaming platform’s device reach.
A law signed with ceremony and bipartisan applause, but built on the same brittle scaffolding that once turned copyright into a cudgel.
Users are left guessing whether Pinterest’s moderation is glitching or quietly redefining its boundaries.
Google sidesteps AI opt-outs by classifying web data as fair game once it’s funneled into search.
By criminalizing unauthorized deepfakes, Denmark flirts with a future where identity protection and speech control are forced into the same uneasy frame.
What starts as a war on deepfakes ends with jail time for posting a meme.
A law built to scrub AI nudes from the internet might also be used as a no-questions-asked censorship mechanism.
LaLiga’s piracy war hands a private sports league the power to black out global tech infrastructure at will.
Turning ad networks into silencers, Ireland’s “disinfo” playbook makes dissent a financial liability.
Compliance, Vahey warns, could rewrite the rules of the entire internet.
The judge’s patience wore thin as Media Matters scrambled to unify lawsuits it let scatter across three continents.
A bill with bipartisan shine and a name fit for a blockbuster masks a blank check for online erasure.
Lawmakers push child safety laws that could gut online anonymity.
