Protecting kids is a weak pretext for total digital surveillance. What’s worse, the EU’s monitoring exempted its own politicians from scrutiny. Their privacy matters, but not yours. Privacy for the Powerful, Surveillance […]
On Wednesday, Australian Substack authors received a message: “Substack is introducing age verification steps for readers in Australia.” “To say that I was flabbergasted is an understatement,” author of Informed Choice Meryl […]
Governments are tightening control over what citizens can say online. The worldwide slide toward punishing speech has profound consequences for open societies, Julian Adorney writes. Hashtag Handcuffs: The Global Rise of Online […]
Substack has implemented measures to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act, which requires age verification for accessing certain types of content deemed “potentially harmful.” The obvious problem is: What information does […]
Dr. Vernon Coleman first became aware of the censoring of citizens by the British state in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1980s, he wrote a good deal about the AIDS hoax, […]
EU censorship is not an abstract bureaucratic artifact but a living network of hundreds – if not thousands – of actors intervening daily in the flow of open communication. It incorporates state-funded […]
In June, Ofcom outlined its proposals to expand its censorship role in a consultation document. The consultation came and went with little media coverage. The document proposes the use of “proactive technologies” […]