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August 12, 2025

US Plan To Copy UK’s Disastrous Online Digital ID Verification Is Winning Friends in the Senate

Source: Reclaim the Net — What’s sold as a safety net for kids could become the blueprint for an ID-locked, surveillance-ready internet. Advocates of a…

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August 11, 2025

New EU Media “Freedom Law” Allows for Journalist Arrests if Justified by “Public Interest”

Source: Reclaim the Net — The regulation authorizes arrests, sanctions, and surveillance of journalists whenever authorities say it serves an “overriding reason in the general…

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August 10, 2025

Last Line Of Defense: USA Intervenes Against EU Digital Surveillance

Source: ZeroHedge — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched a lobbying campaign against the EU’s Digital Services Act. With this step, Americans have…

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August 9, 2025

London police arrest at least 450 protesters at rally against Palestine Action ban

Source: Middle East Eye — Arrested for speech. Hundreds of people have been arrested at weekly protests by campaign group Defend Our Juries (DOJ), which…

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August 9, 2025

I Apologize For Failing All Your Litmus Tests

Source: Charles Hugh Smith — There is no middle ground left for those few of us who refuse to comply with the "choose a tribe"…

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August 8, 2025

Argentine lawmaker indicted over anti-Israel social media posts, in a first

Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency — The judges ruled that freedom of expression is not absolute and can be restricted to protect others’ rights, national security,…

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Consumer Protection

August 8, 2025

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,…

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August 8, 2025

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…

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August 7, 2025

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…

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August 7, 2025

Why Britain Arrests 30 People EVERY DAY For Speech

Source: modernity — Overall, Lord Toby Young portrays the UK as sliding toward authoritarian censorship, prioritizing “safety” over liberty and stifling open debate. Young warns…

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August 6, 2025

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…

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August 6, 2025

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…

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US Plan To Copy UK’s Disastrous Online Digital ID Verification Is Winning Friends in the Senate

New EU Media “Freedom Law” Allows for Journalist Arrests if Justified by “Public Interest”

Last Line Of Defense: USA Intervenes Against EU Digital Surveillance

London police arrest at least 450 protesters at rally against Palestine Action ban

I Apologize For Failing All Your Litmus Tests

Argentine lawmaker indicted over anti-Israel social media posts, in a first

Payment Processors: Surveillance, Chokepoints, and Kill Switches

Shiny Objects

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

FIRE Sues Rubio, Trump Administration for Blowing it On Speech

Defend Our Juries website taken down

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European Commission Wants Your Free Speech. X Is In the Way.

The Social Media Ban for Teenagers is a Trojan Horse for Ending Internet Anonymity

The Big Lie Used to Justify the End of Internet Freedom

Woman Arrested & Jailed in South Carolina for Joining an Online Anti-ICE Chat

Police Investigating German Pensioner Comparing Merz to Pinocchio on Facebook

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