Category: Speech
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Texas Woman Arrested for Facebook Post About Town Water Quality
A Texas town used a bomb-threat law to jail a mom who posted about brown water the city later admitted…
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Hawaii To Pay Up After Trying to Criminalize Political Memes
Hawaii’s taxpayers now owe six figures because their state tried to make certain memes illegal.
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Florida Pays $485K to Biologist Fired Over Charlie Kirk Post
A shorebird biologist’s firing over a private Instagram post turned into one of the sharpest federal tests of government employee…
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South Carolina’s New Social Media Law Puts Every User Under Age Surveillance
A bill sold as child protection builds the legal framework for surveilling every user in the state.
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Incoming Chief of UK Speech Regulator Takes Aim at VPNs
The incoming Ofcom chair’s to-do list includes treating VPNs as obstacles, demanding new powers over YouTube, and asking the Treasury…
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Merkel Urges EU to Keep Regulating Social Media Speech
The architect of Germany’s original internet censorship law now wants the whole continent to stop worrying and learn to love…
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Big Tech Backs Colorado OS-Level Age Data Bill
Apple and Google would become the state-appointed gatekeepers of every Coloradan’s age data and their lobbyists are pushing hard for…
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Canada’s Military Punished Whistleblowers Who Flagged Illegal COVID Speech Monitoring
Six years later, the legal vacuum that made domestic surveillance possible hasn’t moved an inch.
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X Agrees to Review Illegal “Hate” Within 48 Hours Under UK Online Safety Act
The platform that once called Ofcom’s approach “overreach” just handed it a 48-hour content removal pipeline with quarterly audits.
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TikTok Removes Reform UK Campaign Video Using Online Safety Act “Hate” Censorship Rules
The law Parliament sold as a shield for children just became a sword against a political campaign.
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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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Ofcom and the Fantasy of Global Speech Control
The British speech regulator proved it doesn’t understand the internet.