Starting 27 December 2025, Australians using internet search engines such as Google and Microsoft Bing while logged in will be required to verify their age through digital identity checks, including methods such […]
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 […]