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Censorship Season Opens as Canada Heads to the Polls
With a tone of urgency wrapped in bureaucratic calm, Canada’s election watchdog teams up with tech giants to patrol the digital frontier of political discourse.
Steven Crowder Leaves YouTube for Rumble Live, Citing Censorship and Surging to #1 in US Live Streams
By cutting ties with YouTube, he’s daring others to question the cost of staying.
When Blocking Piracy Means Breaking the Internet
Italy’s war on piracy veers into digital overkill, drafting Google’s DNS into a censorship crusade that barely knows its targets.
Hillary Clinton vs. the “Autocrats” (Except the Ones Throwing Meme Posters in Jail)
While railing against American autocracy, she stood beneath a slogan borrowed from conspiracy lore, in a country where memes get you raided at dawn.
Senate Bill Threatens Section 230 and Online Free Speech
A ticking clock on Section 230 gambles with the very architecture of online speech, led by lawmakers who can’t agree on what they’re building next.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan Defends COVID-Era Content Takedowns and Denies Bias in Christian Network Dispute
Mohan’s vision of “free expression” looks a lot like a locked door with selective bouncers.
Netflix’s Adolescence is a Trojan Horse For Online Censorship and Surveillance Policy
A four-part sob story about screen time is being used to rewrite the rules of the internet.
X Suspends Opposition Accounts Amid Protests Over Istanbul Mayor İmamoğlu’s Arrest in Turkey
Digital dissent meets the delete button as Erdoğan’s crackdown moves from the streets to the scroll.
MembersFrom Hashtag to Handcuffs: The AI Surveillance Machine Monitoring Protest Tweets
Your right to assemble now comes with a digital trail and a police escort.
Maryland Faces First Amendment Battle Over Satirical Meme Account Targeting Governor Wes Moore
A pseudonymous meme account is testing how much satire and criticism a democracy can tolerate before it lawyers up.
UK MP Questions Whether Elon Musk and JD Vance’s Criticism of Censorship Laws May Constitute “Foreign Interference”
When opinions from abroad start sounding like crimes, it’s not interference — it’s insecurity.
Documents Reveal Government-Backed Censorship Network Involving GEC, USAID, and Private Media Firms
Government-backed censorship tools extended far beyond foreign disinformation, shaping domestic narratives with the help of private media enforcers.