UK
From this week, all new vehicles in the EU with have to have a surveillance-based speed limiter
GPS is the most common method.
Twitter censors story of British mother who died after reaction to Covid vaccine
Twitter auto-censored the story as “misleading” despite it being true.
Halifax bank threatens to close customer accounts for “inappropriate” social media posts
The bank has been facing much backlash in the last week.
UK NHS continues to scrub the word “women” from its websites to avoid causing offense
The term continues to be censored.
The UK’s online censorship bill is (as expected) unpopular
The bill restricts speech but pretends it doesn’t.
London Assembly Member calls for police investigation into Laurence Fox’s LGBT flag swastika tweet
Caroline Russell says the tweet is a “hate crime.”
Even Meta pushes back against the UK’s online surveillance and censorship bill
Meta says the bill would require platforms to scan “all private messaging.”
The UK’s shadowy “counter-disinformation unit” has shifted from Covid to war
Actively getting select speech removed from social media platforms.
Paramount says it won’t censor old content to please modern audiences
Taking a difference stance to its rivals.
The UK Online Safety Bill has laughable free speech and privacy “protections”
The protections don’t apply when platforms censor so-called “harmful” content.
UK blocks Labour lawmaker that wanted news outlets to register with dystopian regulator
Dodging censorship proposals.
UK’s public-funded BBC told journalists to lobby lawmakers on trans rights
An apparent breach of ethics.