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Meta, Google, TikTok Challenge California Social Media Restrictions
The lawsuits cite the First Amendment and Section 230 while leaving California age verification intact.
45 Attorneys General Urgently Want Congress to Push Platforms Toward Age Checks
Washington is being asked to referee the internet’s most persistent identity check.
UK High Court Upholds Speech Regulator Notices To Meta, WhatsApp, X, And TikTok
Court says Ofcom does not need a specific purpose before requesting social media data.
Poway Must Restore Critic’s Hidden Facebook Comments
No profile photo, one friend, and suddenly the First Amendment has a captcha.
Deaconess Settles Hospital Data Sharing Lawsuit
The settlement closes the case, but leaves the hospital’s digital paper trail under seal.
Canada’s Digital Censorship Bill Could Expand to Roblox and Discord
Roblox and Discord may be next in line for Canada’s age verification experiment.
Brazil’s Lula Signals More Internet Restrictions After Election Victory
Lula wants to speak directly to the people, preferably after regulating everyone else’s speech.
Florida Wants to Put an Age Gate on the Entire Internet
Florida banned kids under 14, took Meta to court, and went after ChatGPT. Now it wants the phone itself to check your age.
Australian Meta Lawsuit Puts Online Privacy at Risk
Meta’s design choices are on trial, along with the increasingly popular idea that identity checks are the cure.
Meta Fined $25 Billion Over "Hate Speech" and Privacy Claims
The privacy scandal is familiar. The speech counts are where this case gets genuinely unsettling.
Australia Wants the World to Follow Its Online Censorship Blueprint
The bill says it is not about speech, but its critics are already reading the subtext.
UK Speech Regulator Ofcom Struggles To Enforce Censorship Law Fines Abroad
Ofcom can write the fines, but foreign courts get to decide whether anyone pays them.
