Six years later, the legal vacuum that made domestic surveillance possible hasn't moved an inch. The post Canada’s Military Punished Whistleblowers Who Flagged Illegal COVID Speech Monitoring
Somewhere between the biometric lunch lines and the 24/7 monitoring software, American education became a data hoarding operation with a teaching problem. The post The School Spy Boom Nobody Asked
The lawsuit designed to protect children from surveillance essentially mandates a biometric surveillance system for 150 million users. The post Oklahoma Sues Roblox, but the “Fix” Is Biometric
The platform that once called Ofcom's approach "overreach" just handed it a 48-hour content removal pipeline with quarterly audits. The post X Agrees to Review Illegal “Hate” Within 48 Hours
The law Parliament sold as a shield for children just became a sword against a political campaign. The post TikTok Removes Reform UK Campaign Video Using Online Safety Act “Hate” Censorship
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. The post Britain Decides Viral Protest Clips Need Prosecutors
The British speech regulator proved it doesn't understand the internet. The post Ofcom and the Fantasy of Global Speech Control
Britain's civil liberties are eroding one deployment at a time. The post London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
They do. That's the problem. The post Canada Says Critics Don’t Understand Its Surveillance Bill (https://reclaimthenet.org/canada-says-critics-dont-understand-its-surveillance-bill) appeared
Google asked permission to gate the open web in 2023, got rejected, and just shipped the same thing as a product update nobody voted on. The post The Web Is Splitting Into Approved and Unapproved
The law Congress unanimously passed to fight revenge porn also handed anyone with an internet connection and a grudge a delete button. The post Days Away: The TAKE IT DOWN Act Creates a Censorship
The people who spent years building blacklists to silence others are now shocked to find themselves on one. The post Rubio Is Sued Over Visa Bans on Foreign Censors
A check and a written confession make this the first time the government has paid an American for coercing a social media company into censorship. The post Berenson Wins Settlement and First
The government built a press pass out of a tax form and the prime minister's office helped decide who got one. The post Canada’s Pay-to-Play Press Pass
Every AI company's nightmare scenario just became a plaintiff's attorney's blueprint for court-ordered mass surveillance. The post The FSU Shooting Lawsuit That Could Turn ChatGPT Into a
Every major speaker at the Copenhagen summit has a resume built on telling platforms what to take down. The post AI Safety Institute Debuts with Big-Name Backers and a Censorship Agenda
Reddit's message to its most loyal lurkers is this: your anonymity is the one thing we can't monetize. The post Reddit Tests Blocking Mobile Web to Force App Downloads
A departing UK minister used her resignation letter to demand device-level photo scanning on every phone in the country. The post Jess Phillips Resigns, Pushes Phone Scanning Law in UK
The government is building glasses that turn a glance into a federal database query and the deployment date is already set. The post The US Government Wants Agents Wearing Face Scanners
Pennsylvania's governor is using a real lawsuit against a fake AI psychiatrist to push proposals that would require everyone to hand over government ID and have every conversation scanned before a
