Digital Services Act
EU Targets VPNs in EU Age Verification Push
Brussels wants to close the VPN loophole, even as it insists its official age verification app remains a mere suggestion.
EU Pushes Meta Toward Digital ID and Age Verification Under DSA, Threatens 6% Revenue Fine
Brussels just told Meta that asking users their birthday isn’t a verification system and the fix means every social media account becomes either a behavioral surveillance file or a government ID check.
EU Pushes Age Verification App for All States
Brussels wants every member state shipping its age verification app by year’s end, three months after a security researcher cracked it in under two minutes.
The Age Verification Con
How Big Tech and politicians built a digital ID system for everyone while pretending to fight each other.
EU Admits X’s Open Data Skews Disinformation Findings While Fining Platform for Restricting Researchers
The bloc that fined X for restricting researcher data access then cited X’s comparatively open data as the reason it leads the disinformation statistics.
Cloudflare Appeals €14 Million AGCOM Fine, Challenges Italy’s Piracy Shield as Illegal Censorship System
Blocking a Ukrainian education portal and killing Google Drive for 12 hours is what happens when private media companies get to shut down the internet with no court, no notice, and no appeal.
Macron Asks Trump to Lift Visa Ban on Censorship Law Architect
Macron is asking Washington to welcome back the architect of the law that got X fined.
X Challenges EU’s $140 Million Digital Services Act Fine in Court
No outside arbiter, no independent review, no appeal before the fine lands; just the Commission, its definitions, and a $140 million bill. X is pushing back.
EU Defends Censorship Law While Commission Staff Shift to Auto-Deleting Signal Messages
Brussels is pursuing Chat Control to surveil private communications while its own enforcers retreat deeper into encrypted, self-destructing ones.
Berlin Court Orders X to Hand Over Hungarian Election Data to Researchers
The court gave researchers what they asked for, but the same institution that fined X for refusing is also the largest funder of the group that sued to make it comply.
US Plans freedom.gov Website to Host Content Banned by EU and UK Censorship Laws
The portal is Washington’s opening move in a direct confrontation with European governments over who gets to decide what their citizens can read.
Macron Calls Online Free Speech Argument “Pure Bullshit”
The pro-censorship French president is now the most eloquent voice in the West for the idea that free speech, unregulated, is a problem to be solved.