Culture
Ofcom Investigates Telegram Under UK “Online Safety Act”
The regulator’s list of duties runs far beyond child safety into foreign interference, false communications, and public-order speech.
Canada’s Carney Revives Online Censorship Bill
The bill that died with Trudeau’s election call is back, and so is the advisory panel that wrote it.
Kiwi Farms Challenges DMCA Subpoenas as Tools to Unmask Anonymous Speech
Courts and civil liberties groups have spent years warning that the DMCA’s subpoena process is a censorship shortcut disguised as copyright enforcement.
Britain’s Free Speech Crisis and the Bill That Would Fix It
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.
Britain’s Great Speech Police Rebrand
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.
Germany Drafts Law Making AI Deepfake Memes a Crime
Germany’s draft deepfake law under Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig could criminalize political memes with up to two years in prison.
Starmer Pushes Fast-Track Online Censorship Powers
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.
FTC Warns Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe Over Political Debanking
The FTC just told the four companies that move America’s money to stop picking sides, without actually doing anything about it yet.
Spain’s HODIO Program to Monitor and Rank Social Media Platforms on “Hate Speech”
Spain’s government will now grade tech companies on speech removal twice a year, with the same officials defining what counts as hate setting the scores.
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.
The $750,000 Opinion: How a B.C. Tribunal Silenced a School Trustee
The man who called gender ideology education “child abuse” now owes $750,000 for saying so; not in a courtroom, but in a quasi-judicial hearing where no jury decided and no criminal standard applied.
Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem Are Sued Over Pressure on Apple and Facebook to Remove ICE-Tracking Platforms
The legal question is centered around how the idea of safety is used to let the government delete speech that breaks no laws.