Emmanuel Macron
Thirty Leaders Want a Global Referee for AI
Every UN week needs a cause. This year's came with testing protocols and a verification regime.
World Leaders Are Rallying Behind ID Checks for the Internet
From Brussels to Canberra, “think of the children” is becoming an internet-wide identity system.
Macron Seeks EU Law After France Rejects Under 15 Social Media Ban
Macron wants EU law to ban social media for children under 15 across member states.
France's Top Court Kills the Under-15 Social Media Ban
Macron wanted to export the model around the world. His own constitutional court sent it back with notes.
French Parliament Reaches Deal on Social Media Ban
Two hours in a closed room, and France agreed that anonymity online was a price worth paying for a headline about protecting children.
France and WHO Push Social Media ID Checks
The pitch is protecting kids from algorithms. The mechanism is a permanent identity checkpoint over the entire internet.
To Keep Kids Off Social Media, the UAE Will ID Every User
The under-15 ban is how the UAE signs on to a worldwide push for verified digital identity.
The Age Verification Con
How Big Tech and politicians built a digital ID system for everyone while pretending to fight each other.
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.
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.
Macron, Merz, and Von Der Leyen Defend Expanded Speech Controls
The Munich Security Conference just became a defense session for Europe’s most ambitious censorship regime.