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Apple faces new EU antitrust charge over music streaming
In addition to other charges.
MembersCentral Bank Digital Currencies Make Authoritarianism, Censorship, and Surveillance Easy
As nations race to digitize their currencies, the dream of financial freedom risks collapsing into a system where every transaction becomes a line in the state’s ledger.
EU bans search engines and social platforms from “reproducing” content from sanctioned Russian media
A wide-sweeping censorship order.
The EU wants to sanction spreaders of misinformation
What could possibly go wrong?
Oliver Stone-produced “Ukraine on Fire” moves to Rumble after YouTube censorship
Censored as it started to top movie rental charts.
French digital minister tells Big Tech platforms to scale up “fact-checking capabilities”
Ministers continue to push Big Tech giants to be the arbiter of truth.
Justin Trudeau praises countries that stand against “misinformation, propaganda”
He claims that increased sharing of misinformation is a sign of “a slippage in our democracies.”
Czechia to jail people for social media posts supporting Russian invasion
“Freedom of speech also has its limits in a democratic state governed by the rule of law.”
Google Play blocks RT and Sputnik’s apps in Europe
The latest of many blocks and restrictions.