Topic: TikTok
TikTok has faced increasing scrutiny over its data collection practices and content moderation policies, often resulting in censorship of user-generated content. Governments worldwide are pushing for stricter regulations, including age verification and algorithm transparency, which threaten user privacy and free expression. The platform’s compliance with these demands raises concerns about its role as a gatekeeper of information and the implications for individual liberties.
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TikTok Says Privacy Makes Users Less Safe
TikTok built a surveillance-ready messaging system and called it a safety feature.
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Judge Blocks Virginia’s One-Hour Social Media Limit for Minors as Unconstitutional
Virginia set the government as the default gatekeeper of how long children can read, watch, and talk online, and a…
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Rumble Shorts Is Everywhere Now, and It’s Coming for TikTok
The launch puts a swipeable, short-form feed on every major platform just as TikTok’s year of turbulence has left creators…
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Newsom Backs Teen Social Media Ban After Daughter’s Birthday Party Phone Moment
The governor who couldn’t bring himself to say “put the phones down” at his own daughter’s party is now asking…
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Macron Calls Online Free Speech Argument “Pure Bullshit”
The pro-censorship French president is now the most eloquent voice in the West for the idea that free speech, unregulated,…
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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.
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Massive TikTok Fine Threat Advances Europe’s Digital ID Agenda
Europe’s TikTok case treats “addiction” as the rationale, but age verification is the real infrastructure.
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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.
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House Report: EU Pushed Tech Giants to Police US Speech
Europe’s regulators used its leverage to make Silicon Valley enforce their speech rules worldwide.
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The 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…
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Gavin Newsom Says He’s Investigating TikTok Over Alleged Censorship of Anti-Trump and “Epstein” Content
It has been a bad week for TikTok, as technical excuses wear thin against a pattern of silence that, to…
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TikTok’s New US Joint Venture Expands Data Collection to Include Precise Location Tracking
TikTok’s new era comes with a sharper eye on users’ exact whereabouts.