4+ hour, 41+ min ago  (814+ words) ← Front / Media Jim Jordan warns UK DCMS plan forcing YouTube, Facebook and TikTok to promote BBC news threatens free speech. Britain’s government has decided that a functioning adult with thumbs and a phone cannot be trusted to pick your own…...

2+ hour, 30+ min ago  (642+ words) ← Front / Privacy The regulator swears identity verification is optional. The fine print says otherwise. Ofcom has decided that two of the planet’s most-used messaging apps deserve a spot on a list. Apple’s iMessage and Meta’s Messenger now sit on the…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (80+ words) ← Front / Members A recent privacy issue with Apple has exposed the dangers and loopholes to be aware of. Here’s how to get email aliases right. Reclaim your digital freedom. Get the latest on censorship and surveillance, and learn how to…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (717+ words) ← Front / Covid The support group was a safe room online, so Washington leaned on the platforms until the door shut. Federal officials set out to erase the online voices of Americans who said Covid vaccines had hurt them. A new…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (495+ words) ← Front / Culture Meta’s policy director flew in by video link to defend leaving posts up, which is a sentence that would have been unthinkable a year ago. Meta sat before Australia’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion this week…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (452+ words) ← Front / Privacy The pitch is protecting kids from algorithms. The mechanism is a permanent identity checkpoint over the entire internet. Governments now have a template for policing who gets online, and it arrived dressed as child health advice. French President…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (794+ words) ← Front / Speech This is what a prior restraint looks like when nobody is in a rush to end one. There is a particular kind of American who believes, somewhere deep in the region of the ribs, that censorship is a…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (503+ words) ← Front / Tech Freedom Apple tried to convince a European court that one App Store was secretly five. Apple spent years arguing that the App Store on your iPhone is somehow five different stores, and a European court has now told…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (391+ words) ← Front / Privacy Every empty chair in Strasbourg counted as a vote for the surveillance nobody in the room had the numbers to stop. Europe’s biggest platforms can once again scan your messages without a warrant or any reason to suspect…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (718+ words) ← Front / Privacy The justices didn’t say a word about the First Amendment. They just let the ID check stay switched on. Texas can now require proof of age (which means digital ID checks) before anyone downloads an app, and the…...