Even Google warns Canada’s Bill C-22 would build a “surveillance infrastructure” that weakens cybersecurity for everyone. It joins Apple, Meta, Proton, Signal, and more in opposition. The bill forces companies to enable mass surveillance, store metadata on millions of innocent users for a year, and create backdoors that break end-to-end encryption.

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Even Google Warns Canada Bill C-22 Creates Surveillance Backdoors

The bill is in real trouble when even Google, a company that built its empire on knowing everything about you, thinks a government's surveilla...

Florida federal court summons Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to face Rumble + Truth Social’s anti-censorship lawsuit. He has 21 days to respond or risk default judgment. Moraes tried to force US platforms to censor American users and hand over their data. One foreign judge can’t dictate what Americans can say online.

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US Court Summons Pro-Censorship Brazil Judge Moraes in Rumble Lawsuit

A Brazilian judge who ordered an American platform shut down for refusing to censor his own critics now has 21 days to explain himself to a Florida...

UK gov “consulted” the public on banning social media for under-16s, then announced they’d do it anyway before it even closed. Former Health Secretary Wes Streeting says it’s like Big Tobacco. Nonsense. It’s all about a push for mandatory digital ID checks for every adult to post online.

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Westminster Recycles Tobacco-Style Panic Campaign For Internet Crackdown

Somewhere in Westminster a whiteboard has "free speech = tobacco" written on it with three exclamation marks.

Big Tech just voluntarily handed UK speech regulator Ofcom preview access to new features before they launch. Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Snap & YouTube all agreed. TikTok refused. Meta is now rolling out AI to scan Instagram DMs under the premise of detecting “sexualized conversations," right after quietly killing E2EE. This is how free speech and privacy die: companies willingly building the surveillance state for the regulator. All for “safety.”

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5 Tech Giants Let UK Speech Regulator Preview New Features

Five tech giants just agreed to show a government regulator their homework before turning it in, even though the law never said they had to.

Jennifer Combs had a clean record. Then Trinidad, TX police arrested her on a felony charge for a Facebook post about brown tap water and residents getting sick. The city issued a boil water notice after threatening felony charges for talking about it. Now she's suing for retaliation. The small town used bomb-threat laws to silence complaints about dirty water. Wild.

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Texas Woman Arrested for Facebook Post About Town Water Quality

A Texas town used a bomb-threat law to jail a mom who posted about brown water the city later admitted was undrinkable.

South Carolina just passed a law requiring platforms to estimate your age every 100 hours of use, or any time they run their algorithms on you. 80% confidence minimum, $10k fine per wrong guess. The incentive is to collect more data about everyone, including kids.

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South Carolina's New Social Media Law Puts Every User Under Age Surveillance

A bill sold as child protection builds the legal framework for surveilling every user in the state.

Angela Merkel used her first major speech since leaving office to tell the EU to keep regulating speech online and not worry about getting it wrong. "We learn through mistakes," she said. The mistakes she means: satirists censored, opposition leaders silenced, a law her own government built to crush dissent.

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Merkel Urges EU to Keep Regulating Social Media Speech

The architect of Germany's original internet censorship law now wants the whole continent to stop worrying and learn to love the delete button.

A new lawsuit says Disney scans 75,000 faces a day at Disneyland without meaningful consent. The opt-out is a small icon at select gates, no verbal notice, no app alert. The suit argues guests should have to opt in, not find their way out of a biometric dragnet.

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Disney Faces $5M Lawsuit Over Disneyland Facial Recognition

The lawsuit lands as facial recognition quietly becomes the price of admission at stadiums, airports, and more.

Canada's government posted "use a VPN to protect your data" the same week VPN companies threatened to leave the country over Bill C-22, which would force them to log that data. Windscribe called it a clown show. They're not wrong.

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Use A VPN, Says Canadian Government That Wants VPN Logs

The government posted "use a VPN" the same week two VPN companies threatened to leave rather than comply with a new surveillance bill.

A Colorado bill would force your phone's operating system to collect your date of birth and share your age bracket with every app you open. Chamber of Progress, bankrolled by Apple, Google, and Meta, is lobbying Gov. Polis to sign it. For now, kids can just type in a fake birthday. But what it does build is the infrastructure for mandatory ID verification later...

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Big Tech Backs Colorado OS-Level Age Data Bill

Apple and Google would become the state-appointed gatekeepers of every Coloradan's age data and their lobbyists are pushing hard for the privi...

Canada's military ordered soldiers to create fake social media accounts and spy on opposition political parties during COVID. Soldiers who warned it could be illegal were reprimanded. Six years later, no law prevents it from happening again.

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Canada's Military Punished Whistleblowers Who Flagged Illegal COVID Speech Monitoring

Six years later, the legal vacuum that made domestic surveillance possible hasn't moved an inch.

Britain Decides Viral Protest Clips Need Prosecutors

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Britain Decides Viral Protest Clips Need Prosecutors

Your chant at a march is now judged not by the crowd around you but by how a stranger might feel watching a clip of it online.

Ten states sued Roblox over child safety. Every single one demanded the same fix: more ID scanning, more biometric collection, more face scans. The pattern is always the same. A crisis, then surveillance.

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Oklahoma Sues Roblox, but the “Fix” Is Biometric Checks

The lawsuit designed to protect children from surveillance essentially mandates a biometric surveillance system for 150 million users.

A German man jokingly called former Chancellor Olaf Scholz a bastard on Twitter because his Fortnite download was crawling at 173KB/s. The tweet had 503 views. Authorities investigated him for committing a criminal offense (insulting a politician) and he was forced to delete it. Imagine what would happen if they get their way, ban end-to-end encryption, and monitor all of your private messages.

TikTok deleted a Reform UK campaign video because someone filed a report under the Online Safety Act. There's no penalty for bad-faith reports. The OSA was sold as child protection but the actual incentive structure is this: platforms face billions in fines for under-enforcement, so they delete first and never look back. Starmer's government says platforms should "uphold freedom of expression" while threatening them with penalties that guarantee the opposite...

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TikTok Removes Reform UK Campaign Video Using Online Safety Act Hate Censorship Rules

The law Parliament sold as a shield for children just became a sword against a political campaign.

Canada's Public Safety Minister says Apple, Meta, and Signal are "misinterpreting" his surveillance bill. Apple says the bill would force encryption backdoors. Signal says they'd leave Canada entirely. Meta says it would turn companies into arms of government surveillance. The minister thinks they just can't read.

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Canada Says Critics Don't Understand Its Surveillance Bill.

They do. That's the problem.

A nonprofit is suing on behalf of people Rubio sanctioned for pressuring platforms to delete speech. These are the folks who built advertiser blacklists, ran deplatforming campaigns, and helped write the EU's law forcing American companies to censor legal content. Now they want a federal judge to protect them. The people who spent years arguing deplatforming isn't censorship are upset about being on a blacklist themselves...

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Rubio Is Sued Over Visa Bans on Foreign Censorship Supporters

The people who spent years building blacklists to silence others are now shocked to find themselves on one.

Ofcom and the Fantasy of Global Speech Control

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Ofcom and the Fantasy of Global Speech Control

The British speech regulator proved it doesn't understand the internet.

The police in London are deploying facial recognition at a political protest tomorrow. That's every face scanned against a police watchlist for attending a lawful rally. No parliamentary vote authorized this. No legislation regulates it. Not only is it a privacy invasion, some people will stay home knowing their biometrics are being captured, chilling speech.

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London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time

Britain's civil liberties are eroding one deployment at a time.

Clinton, von der Leyen, and the guy who helped Biden's White House pressure platforms to suppress speech all walk into a Danish palace to decide what AI is allowed to say. They're calling it "youth safety." Every speaker has a track record of expanding censorship...

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AI Safety Institute Debuts with Big-Name Backers and a Censorship Agenda

Every major speaker at the Copenhagen summit has a resume built on telling platforms what to take down.