Britain’s Free Speech Crisis and the Bill That Would Fix It
April 3, 2026
After centuries of prosecuting people for what they say, Britain may be closer than it has ever been to making free speech an actual legal right.
After centuries of prosecuting people for what they say, Britain may be closer than it has ever been to making free speech an actual legal right.
Every Mexican with a cell phone has until July to hand over their fingerprints, iris scans, and facial data to a government whose last two attempts at phone registration ended in a data leak and a Supreme Court smackdown.
One state legislator wants to shut down Illinois’s largest facial recognition database, and 227 police organizations showed up to say no.
Apple keeps helping the Kremlin shrink the internet one app removal at a time.
The British government scraps non-crime hate incidents. The replacement system does everything the old one did, just with a fresher coat of bureaucratic paint.
Apple now requires adults in Singapore and South Korea to hand over government IDs or financial credentials just to download apps they’ve been buying freely for years.
A federal agency spent taxpayer money telling Americans which news outlets to trust, and it took three years of litigation to make it stop.
A blueprint for a nation starving for a taste of freedom.
Germany’s draft deepfake law under Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig could criminalize political memes with up to two years in prison.
The British Prime Minister sketches a future where online speech rules update as routinely as tax bracket, with scrutiny treated as an obstacle rather than a safeguard.
A regional digitization push places millions of health records inside a system shaped by pandemic-era control mechanisms.
UK’s £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment.
A 67-year-old retired teacher who’s owned Apple products since 2009 now has her web browsing filtered because she pays for everything with a debit card.
The FTC just told the four companies that move America’s money to stop picking sides, without actually doing anything about it yet.
The government says no new powers were added, which is a bold way to describe inventing a crime that didn’t exist last week.
How Big Tech and politicians built a digital ID system for everyone while pretending to fight each other.
The EU’s own data showed the scanning system failed to produce a single measurable link between mass surveillance and actual convictions.
Supreme Court unanimously rules Cox Communications not liable for subscriber piracy in Sony Music Entertainment case.
Every two years, Congress gets a chance to add a warrant requirement to Section 702, and every two years, it finds a reason not to.
The Supreme Court’s silence left standing a legal framework where asking a government official a question can land a journalist in handcuffs, with no one responsible for putting them there.
If the design-as-defect argument survives appeal, more than 1,600 similar cases waiting in courts across the country inherit a ready-made blueprint for killing anonymous speech.
Every iPhone in Britain is now a checkpoint, and the price of entry for many is their ID or credit card.
The administration that inherited the lawsuit just signed away its predecessor’s censorship playbook in a binding legal document.
GrapheneOS is doing what Apple and Google won’t: treating market access as a worthwhile price for not building a government ID layer into your phone.
After centuries of prosecuting people for what they say, Britain may be closer than it has ever been to making free speech an actual legal right.
Every Mexican with a cell phone has until July to hand over their fingerprints, iris scans, and facial data to a government whose last two attempts at phone registration ended in a data leak and a Supreme Court smackdown.
One state legislator wants to shut down Illinois’s largest facial recognition database, and 227 police organizations showed up to say no.
Apple keeps helping the Kremlin shrink the internet one app removal at a time.
The British government scraps non-crime hate incidents. The replacement system does everything the old one did, just with a fresher coat of bureaucratic paint.
Apple now requires adults in Singapore and South Korea to hand over government IDs or financial credentials just to download apps they’ve been buying freely for years.
A federal agency spent taxpayer money telling Americans which news outlets to trust, and it took three years of litigation to make it stop.
A blueprint for a nation starving for a taste of freedom.
Germany’s draft deepfake law under Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig could criminalize political memes with up to two years in prison.
The British Prime Minister sketches a future where online speech rules update as routinely as tax bracket, with scrutiny treated as an obstacle rather than a safeguard.
A regional digitization push places millions of health records inside a system shaped by pandemic-era control mechanisms.
UK’s £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment.
A 67-year-old retired teacher who’s owned Apple products since 2009 now has her web browsing filtered because she pays for everything with a debit card.
The FTC just told the four companies that move America’s money to stop picking sides, without actually doing anything about it yet.
The government says no new powers were added, which is a bold way to describe inventing a crime that didn’t exist last week.
How Big Tech and politicians built a digital ID system for everyone while pretending to fight each other.
The EU’s own data showed the scanning system failed to produce a single measurable link between mass surveillance and actual convictions.
Supreme Court unanimously rules Cox Communications not liable for subscriber piracy in Sony Music Entertainment case.
Every two years, Congress gets a chance to add a warrant requirement to Section 702, and every two years, it finds a reason not to.
The Supreme Court’s silence left standing a legal framework where asking a government official a question can land a journalist in handcuffs, with no one responsible for putting them there.
If the design-as-defect argument survives appeal, more than 1,600 similar cases waiting in courts across the country inherit a ready-made blueprint for killing anonymous speech.
Every iPhone in Britain is now a checkpoint, and the price of entry for many is their ID or credit card.
The administration that inherited the lawsuit just signed away its predecessor’s censorship playbook in a binding legal document.
GrapheneOS is doing what Apple and Google won’t: treating market access as a worthwhile price for not building a government ID layer into your phone.