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Consumer Protection

Payment Processors: Surveillance, Chokepoints, and Kill Switches

Source: Reclaim the Net — When payment monopolists become the bouncers, the guest list stops being your choice. In this case, the partners were Visa,…

freespeechnewsAugust 8, 2025

Media Platforms

Shiny Objects

Source: Leighton Woodhouse for Social Studies — This is what the culture war is for: to distract us with shiny objects while everything around us…

freespeechnewsAugust 8, 2025

Censorship Europe News Abroad

AfD mayoral candidate Joachim Paul denied his right to run for office because he likes Tolkien and criticises migrants

Source: Eugyppius — This particular seedy exercise in ensuring that voters may only choose among various pre-approved candidates is much bigger than this local mayoral…

freespeechnewsAugust 7, 2025

Censorship

FIRE Sues Rubio, Trump Administration for Blowing it On Speech

Source: Matt Taibbi for Racket News — In the name of trying to protect the country, the Trump administration is advertising to the world its…

freespeechnewsAugust 6, 2025

Censorship News Abroad

Defend Our Juries website taken down

Source: @DefendOurJuries on X — "There should be no law in democracy that cannot be opposed. That is the very mark of democracy itself." The…

freespeechnewsAugust 6, 2025

Europe News Abroad Privacy Laws

Germany Turns Its Back on Decades‑Old Privacy Protections with Sweeping Surveillance Bill

Source: Reclaim the Net — The country that once led the world on privacy is now drafting a manual for how to make surveillance effortless.…

freespeechnewsAugust 5, 2025

Media Platforms Press Freedom

Trump and the Dictatorship of the Upper Middle-Class Urbanites

Source: Eugyppius — In the eyes of these journalists and their sources, Trump is anti-democratic and authoritarian for his pursuit of government bureaucrats, federal workers,…

freespeechnewsAugust 4, 2025

Censorship Europe Media Platforms News Abroad Press Freedom

Zeit Magazine killed their Ai Wei Wei’s commission on Germany

Source: James Jackson on X — Ai Wei Wei was commissioned to reflect on Germany for Zeit Magazine, but they seemingly didn’t like his reflections…

freespeechnewsAugust 1, 2025