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reclaimthenet 12 hours ago
Britain arrested at least 62,199 people in five years under laws covering what people say online or over the phone. 18,510 were charged. 12,292 convicted. And depending on where you lived, your chances of being arrested could vary by 43x. Free speech in Britain is under severe and growing threat.
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UK Police Arrested 62,199 People Over Online Speech In Five Years
Britain’s speech police have been busy, and the map of enforcement is anything but even.
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reclaimthenet 17 hours ago
The US just warned Britain not to rig social media feeds in favor of “government-preferred media.” The UK is considering rules that would force social media platforms to make approved news outlets more prominent in users’ feeds. That would be the government deciding which media should get algorithmic priority, while everyone else gets pushed further down...
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US Warns UK Against Forcing Platforms to Promote Preferred News
When governments rank the trustworthy, everyone else starts sliding down the feed.
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reclaimthenet 5 days ago
New Hampshire State Rep. @cantbesilentcal has filed a proposal for a New Hampshire GRANITE Act...a bill that would bar state courts, agencies, and officials from helping enforce foreign censorship orders against speech protected in the US. If enacted, foreign governments could still act within their own jurisdictions, but they wouldn’t be able to use New Hampshire’s legal machinery to enforce censorship judgments, fines, or demands targeting constitutionally protected speech. The proposal is part of a bigger push for similar “foreign censorship shield” laws in states including Wyoming and West Virginia, alongside a federal GRANITE Act in Congress. Beaulier’s wants to make New Hampshire a “granite fortress of free speech.”
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New Hampshire GRANITE Act Would Shield Protected Speech From Foreign Enforcement
A state level answer to the increasingly global business of policing speech.
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reclaimthenet 6 days ago
Tennessee’s social media "age-check" digital ID law just got knocked back. The Sixth Circuit tossed the lower court’s ruling and sent the case back, saying the threat of enforcement can itself chill speech. It's not over yet, but it's a real setback for the law.
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Appeals Court Reopens Challenge To Tennessee Digital ID Law
Tennessee’s age gate now gets another hearing, with online speech and compliance costs back in the frame.
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reclaimthenet 1 week ago
Ken Paxton's new data center plan would make operators criminally liable if the servers they run "empower AI chatbots that undermine children's safety." Data centers only provide power, space, and cooling. They don't produce the speech. Punishing them for it pushes liability past Section 230 and onto the hardware. Faced with criminal liability over a term as vague as "undermine children's safety," operators won't defend anyone. They'll drop the customers and platforms hosting lawful speech rather than risk prison over it. The platforms that survive will hand users digital ID age verification, because checking everyone's papers is the cheapest way to legally prove no child was ever there.
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Paxton "Child Safety" Plan Puts Legal Speech at Criminal Risk
The vague standard is chatbots that undermine child safety. The penalty is criminal, not civil.
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reclaimthenet 2 weeks ago
This is what a bad day for free speech and privacy looks like. Meta's $17 billion settlement with the states is all over the news today, and almost every story is about teen screen limits and beauty filters. It feels like barely anyone has read the actual judgment, which requires every adult user to give up their privacy just to get online, orders Meta to get better at surveilling you and linking your accounts together, and Meta has even waived the right to argue any of it is unconstitutional.
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The Meta Settlement: What It Means for Your Speech and Privacy
Under the teen safety provisions is a court-supervised identity system for every Facebook and Instagram user.
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reclaimthenet 2 weeks ago
This month, Brazil's data regulator ordered Discord to switch off live video. Discord complied under threat of a R$50 ($9.71) million fine. Federal prosecutors have now opened an inquiry into its age verification and end-to-end encryption. Watch the sequence: Tragedy → emergency feature ban → R$50M fine threat → "just tell us how your encryption works" A tragic case involving a 13-year-old is becoming the justification for weakening privacy for everyone.
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Brazil Prosecutors Probe Discord Encryption, Age Checks
The live video ban was just the opening move.
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