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40 State Attorneys General Want To Tie Online Access to ID
The bill’s supporters call it child protection; its architecture looks more like a national ID system for the internet.
Russia Blocks WhatsApp Nationwide, Pushing 100 Million Users Toward Kremlin-Backed App Max
Russia’s 100 million WhatsApp users are being nudged toward Max, a Kremlin-friendly app that doesn’t offer end-to-end encryption.
EU Law Could Extend Scanning of Private Messages Until 2027
By extending Chat Control while calling it restraint, the Parliament treats permanent surveillance as the new baseline.
Spanish PM Declares War on the Internet While Calling It Protection
The new European coalition could make national internet laws a shared tool of control.
MembersThe Gospel of the Anxious Generation
The myth of “social media addiction” has become a convenient moral shield for expanding digital ID systems, turning concern for kids’ safety into consent for mass surveillance.
Landmark LA Trial Targets Social Media Addiction Claims
A Los Angeles jury is about to decide whether social media design itself can be treated as a defective product in the eyes of American law.
Meta Oversight Board Reviews Legitimacy of Permanent Account Bans and Moderation Power
Meta’s self-appointed court is finally confronting whether its own sense of justice can outlast the users it silences.
Democratic Senators Urge Tech Platforms to Restrict AI Images, Including Altered Clothing and Body-Shape Edits
Reports of AI-made bikini photos have become the pretext for expanding censorship beyond explicit content into the merely suggestive.
No ID, No Account: Australia’s Great Digital Purge
The cleanup shows how swiftly online communities can be dismantled in the name of verification.
Germany Considers Broader Legal Authority for Internet Surveillance and State Hacking
Much of the world’s data has always passed through Frankfurt; now Germany wants to keep a copy for itself.
Iran Cuts Internet Nationwide as Protests Spread Across Major Cities
Cut off from the world, Iranians now face a silence engineered to erase their uprising in real time.
Federal Judge Strikes Down Louisiana’s Social Media Digital ID Age Verification Law as Unconstitutional
A federal court’s rebuke of Louisiana’s digital ID law shows how efforts to “protect children online” can collide with the very freedoms they claim to defend.