Category: Speech
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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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Larry Sanger Said Wikipedia Punishes Dissent. Then It Banned Him.
He co-founded the encyclopedia in 2001 and now he can’t edit a single page of it.
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The KIDS Act: A Bipartisan Mass Surveillance Megabill
Country by country, the open web is being walled in and Congress just drafted America’s entry.
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Pritzker’s Social Media Tax: A $200 Million Bet Against the First Amendment
It’s the same tax-the-press maneuver the Supreme Court has been voiding since the 1930s.
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NO FAKES Act Clears Senate Committee: Delete First, Ask Never
Three senators named the free-speech problems out loud and voted for the bill anyway.
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UK Speech Regulator’s Telegram Questions Point Toward Private Chats
One arsonist is now the reason a messaging app may be asked to read along with everyone.
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Why Meta Suddenly Loves the Kids Online Safety Act
The reversal landed the moment the Senate paired the bill with the digital-ID mandate Meta has chased for years.
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Florida Sues TikTok Over Age Verification Failures as Digital ID Mandate Takes Effect
Florida’s plan to protect kids online starts with surveilling every adult in the state.
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India Shut Down Telegram for 150 Million Users Over One Exam Leak
For the second year running, India’s answer to a leak at the source is cutting off 150 million people who…
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The Broad New Powers Hiding Inside Poland’s Child Safety Bills
A 419-to-19 vote united Poland’s bitterest political enemies behind a law broad enough to criminalize a protest video.
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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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Senator Blackburn Demands Kik Verify the Age of Every User
It’s the newest entry in a Senate catalog of child-safety bills that double as the scaffolding for a digital-ID internet.