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The Free Speech Act: A Demolition Plan For Britain’s Speech Laws
A blueprint for a nation starving for a taste of freedom.
MembersThe Fourth Amendment Has a VPN Problem
It’s the kind of question that should have been settled years ago, and the silence tells you why it wasn’t.
Germany Drafts Law Making AI Deepfake Memes a Crime
Germany’s draft deepfake law under Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig could criminalize political memes with up to two years in prison.
Starmer Pushes Fast-Track Online Censorship Powers
The British Prime Minister sketches a future where online speech rules update as routinely as tax bracket, with scrutiny treated as an obstacle rather than a safeguard.
WHO Pushes Digital Health Wallet Rollout
A regional digitization push places millions of health records inside a system shaped by pandemic-era control mechanisms.
UK’s New Pandemic Plan Would Turn Big Tech Into a Mass Location Tracking Network
UK’s £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment.
Apple UK Age Verification Chaos: Users Face Failed Scans, Rejected Passports, and Forced Content Filters
A 67-year-old retired teacher who’s owned Apple products since 2009 now has her web browsing filtered because she pays for everything with a debit card.
FTC Warns Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe Over Political Debanking
The FTC just told the four companies that move America’s money to stop picking sides, without actually doing anything about it yet.
Hong Kong Criminalizes Refusal to Unlock Phones for Police
The government says no new powers were added, which is a bold way to describe inventing a crime that didn’t exist last week.
The Age Verification Con
How Big Tech and politicians built a digital ID system for everyone while pretending to fight each other.
European Parliament Rejects Mass “Chat Control” Surveillance by Single Vote
The EU’s own data showed the scanning system failed to produce a single measurable link between mass surveillance and actual convictions.
MembersWhen Government Hacks Go Wandering
Government-built surveillance tools keep ending up in criminal hands, and the people who build them keep acting surprised.