Culture
UK Introduces Online Speech Monitoring Police
Free speech in the UK reaches dire new lows.
Itch.io Deindexes NSFW-Tagged Games Amid Pressure from Payment Processors and Activist Campaign
Game devs watch their work vanish as faceless financial networks redraw the boundaries of what art is allowed to be seen.
The UK’s Online “Safety” Act Is Already Causing Protests To Be Hidden
Unsurprising: A law meant to shield kids from adult content is now hiding protest footage from adults.
Reps. Gottheimer and Bacon Call For Controversial “STOP HATE Act” to Regulate Social Media Content with ADL Backing
Free speech meets a hammer as Congress eyes a censorship regime dressed in counterterror garb.
Brazilian Feminist Isabella Cêpa Faces 25-Year Sentence as Supreme Court Retroactively Applies Racism Law to Gender Speech
A feminist’s remark is now the crucible for Brazil’s most radical test of speech and state power.
Steam Purges Games Under Pressure from Visa and Mastercard’s Unseen Censorship
These gatekeepers of online speech don’t own platforms, they own the rails your money rides on.
Germany: AfD MP in Court for Posting Video of Protester’s Nazi Salute
The lawmaker who filmed the salute may pay a higher price than the man who made it.
Explosive Report Urges Australia to Regulate the Internet at Its Core
A sweeping mandate to rewrite the code of the internet now sits in Canberra’s in-tray.
Catholic Blog Removed by Google Causes Censorship Uproar
Messainlatino.it, a top Catholic blog, was removed by Google amid rising June 2025 traffic.
Court Ruling on TikTok Opens Door to Platform “Safety” Regulation
Treating app design as a product flaw rather than protected speech opens the door to reshaping the internet by lawsuit.
Judge Allows Fired Catholic Flight Attendant’s Lawsuit to Proceed
A late-night galley chat and a decade-old digital trail now sit at the center of a legal storm United Airlines couldn’t quietly taxi away from.
How The British Government Silenced the “Free” Press, Made Truth Illegal
A secret court order muzzled the press while the state quietly rewrote reality.