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New Zealand Parliamentary Committee Recommends Social Media Ban for Under-16s
Another country is moving toward getting in line with the agenda.
BC Tribunal Clears Student of “Hate Speech” Charge Over COVID-19 Video
A student who shared a pandemic video in a private chat walked away cleared, with a tribunal drawing a line that offended feelings and illegal discrimination are not the same thing.
MembersHow to Actually Disappear on Proton Mail
Proton Mail’s encryption held perfectly in a recent case. Here’s everything else that didn’t, and how to fix it.
Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links
Microsoft’s new “context preservation” keeps you from losing the thread of your conversation and keeps you inside Microsoft’s browser engine, whether you want to be there or not.
How Grok’s Football Roasts Put X in the Crosshairs of Britain’s Online Censorship Law
The episode handed British regulators the pretext they’d been waiting for to wire censorship directly into the software itself.
Linux Hardware CEO Speaks Out Against State-Level OS Age Verification Laws
Three states are using child safety as the wrapper for laws that would require adults to prove their identity to a third party just to turn on a computer.
Turkey Blocks 41 Social Media Accounts Over Iran War Posts
The same officials who ordered the crackdown also wrote the definition of what counts as disinformation.
New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level
The bill’s child safety framing is doing a lot of work to normalize what is, in practice, a government-linked identity layer baked into every device you own before you open a single app.
Roblox Introduces AI System That Rewrites Users’ Chat Messages in Real Time
The message that leaves your keyboard is not the message that arrives.
Australia’s “eSafety” Commissioner Threatens App Stores Over AI Age Verification Deadline
The same government that already bars under-16s from social media is now coming for AI chatbots, app stores, and search engines.
House Committee Passes Child “Safety” Bills That Push National Age Verification Surveillance
The bills arrive dressed as child protection but leave behind a mandate to build the largest ID grab in American consumer history.
MembersThe Privacy Phone Is Going Mainstream: The Deal That Could Change De-Googled Phones Forever
For the first time, the most hardened mobile OS in existence has a manufacturer behind it with genuine reach in all major markets.