The country’s Supreme Court created the crime she’s accused of without asking Congress, and now a veterinary student faces a decade in prison for arguments she made on Twitter in 2020.
Durov’s defiance comes as Moscow tries the same playbook that failed in Iran, only this time with a homegrown WeChat waiting in the wings.
The bill never says “show your ID,” but it quietly demands systems that make anonymous speech impossible.
The Legislature waved it through, but HB161 locks mandatory age checks and parent-linked accounts into the foundation of Alabama’s app ecosystem.
The moment journalists could see how criminal courts actually functioned, the instinct inside the system was to make the visibility vanish rather than fix what it exposed.
California is betting that code and blueprints can be treated as contraband by not calling it speech.
Ring’s lost-dog story worked because it framed a live, neighborhood-scale surveillance network as an act of kindness rather than a system already watching.
Discord’s age gates also hinge on constant behavioral monitoring that shadows users across the platform.
State lawmakers are racing to harden speech protections as Congress warns that Europe is already rewriting the rules for what Americans are allowed to say online.
Berlin treats the internet as annexed territory, asserting control wherever Germans can read a post.
By extending Chat Control while calling it restraint, the Parliament treats permanent surveillance as the new baseline.
Europe’s TikTok case treats “addiction” as the rationale, but age verification is the real infrastructure.
European policymakers are treating VPN adoption as behavior to be contained.
A proposal framed as a fix for ghost guns changes how general-purpose machines are allowed to function in New York.
The new European coalition could make national internet laws a shared tool of control.
In Washington, they watched a continent trade liberty for censorship and call it progress. Now, that threat is coming across the Atlantic in the form of online censorship laws.
Spain’s social media ban for minors doubles as a test case for Europe’s expanding digital ID surveillance.
By voiding Hawaii’s law, the court signaled that the fear of deepfakes cannot outweigh the freedom to mock those in power.
Starmer’s government faces an unprecedented rebuke from Washington over digital laws once hailed as a model for safety.
Europe’s regulators used its leverage to make Silicon Valley enforce their speech rules worldwide.
By targeting platform executives instead of those committing offenses, France has turned speech regulation into an instrument of state coercion.
A fight over data sovereignty now looks at whether a state’s promise of choice can survive the pull of a national ID grid built outside government hands.
Rudd’s defense of Section 702 came despite its history of ensnaring Americans in a surveillance system built for foreign threats.
The ruling narrows the Fourth Amendment’s reach for now, but leaves its future boundaries uncertain.
The country’s Supreme Court created the crime she’s accused of without asking Congress, and now a veterinary student faces a decade in prison for arguments she made on Twitter in 2020.
Durov’s defiance comes as Moscow tries the same playbook that failed in Iran, only this time with a homegrown WeChat waiting in the wings.
The bill never says “show your ID,” but it quietly demands systems that make anonymous speech impossible.
The Legislature waved it through, but HB161 locks mandatory age checks and parent-linked accounts into the foundation of Alabama’s app ecosystem.
The moment journalists could see how criminal courts actually functioned, the instinct inside the system was to make the visibility vanish rather than fix what it exposed.
California is betting that code and blueprints can be treated as contraband by not calling it speech.
Ring’s lost-dog story worked because it framed a live, neighborhood-scale surveillance network as an act of kindness rather than a system already watching.
Discord’s age gates also hinge on constant behavioral monitoring that shadows users across the platform.
State lawmakers are racing to harden speech protections as Congress warns that Europe is already rewriting the rules for what Americans are allowed to say online.
Berlin treats the internet as annexed territory, asserting control wherever Germans can read a post.
By extending Chat Control while calling it restraint, the Parliament treats permanent surveillance as the new baseline.
Europe’s TikTok case treats “addiction” as the rationale, but age verification is the real infrastructure.
European policymakers are treating VPN adoption as behavior to be contained.
A proposal framed as a fix for ghost guns changes how general-purpose machines are allowed to function in New York.
The new European coalition could make national internet laws a shared tool of control.
In Washington, they watched a continent trade liberty for censorship and call it progress. Now, that threat is coming across the Atlantic in the form of online censorship laws.
Spain’s social media ban for minors doubles as a test case for Europe’s expanding digital ID surveillance.
By voiding Hawaii’s law, the court signaled that the fear of deepfakes cannot outweigh the freedom to mock those in power.
Starmer’s government faces an unprecedented rebuke from Washington over digital laws once hailed as a model for safety.
Europe’s regulators used its leverage to make Silicon Valley enforce their speech rules worldwide.
By targeting platform executives instead of those committing offenses, France has turned speech regulation into an instrument of state coercion.
A fight over data sovereignty now looks at whether a state’s promise of choice can survive the pull of a national ID grid built outside government hands.
Rudd’s defense of Section 702 came despite its history of ensnaring Americans in a surveillance system built for foreign threats.
The ruling narrows the Fourth Amendment’s reach for now, but leaves its future boundaries uncertain.
