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Ofcom and the Fantasy of Global Speech Control
https://reclaimthenet.org/ofcom-and-the-fantasy-of-global-speech-control
Published: May 15, 2026 17:35
The British speech regulator proved it doesn't understand the internet.
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London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
https://reclaimthenet.org/london-police-deploy-facial-recognition-at-protest-for-first-time
Published: May 15, 2026 16:01
Britain's civil liberties are eroding one deployment at a time.
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Canada Says Critics Don’t Understand Its Surveillance Bill
https://reclaimthenet.org/canada-says-critics-dont-understand-its-surveillance-bill
Published: May 15, 2026 13:45
They do. That's the problem.
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The Web Is Splitting Into Approved and Unapproved Humans
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-fraud-defense-web-attestation
Published: May 14, 2026 17:11
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.
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Rubio Is Sued Over Visa Bans on Foreign Censors
https://reclaimthenet.org/rubio-is-sued-over-visa-bans-on-foreign-censors
Published: May 14, 2026 16:52
The people who spent years building blacklists to silence others are now shocked to find themselves on one.
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Days Away: The TAKE IT DOWN Act Creates a Censorship Mechanism With No Safeguards
https://reclaimthenet.org/ftc-take-it-down-act-days-away
Published: May 14, 2026 16:07
The law Congress unanimously passed to fight revenge porn also handed anyone with an internet connection and a grudge a delete button.
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Berenson Wins Settlement and First Amendment Admission Over Twitter Ban
https://reclaimthenet.org/alex-berenson-twitter-censorship-settlement
Published: May 14, 2026 14:46
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.
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Canada’s Pay-to-Play Press Pass
https://reclaimthenet.org/canadas-pay-to-play-press-pass
Published: May 14, 2026 14:22
The government built a press pass out of a tax form and the prime minister's office helped decide who got one.
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AI Safety Institute Debuts with Big-Name Backers and a Censorship Agenda
https://reclaimthenet.org/ai-safety-summit-speech-controls
Published: May 12, 2026 17:50
Every major speaker at the Copenhagen summit has a resume built on telling platforms what to take down.
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The FSU Shooting Lawsuit That Could Turn ChatGPT Into a Surveillance Tool
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fsu-shooting-lawsuit-that-could-turn-chatgpt-into-a-surveillance-tool
Published: May 12, 2026 17:48
Every AI company's nightmare scenario just became a plaintiff's attorney's blueprint for court-ordered mass surveillance.
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Reddit Tests Blocking Mobile Web to Force App Downloads
https://reclaimthenet.org/reddit-tests-blocking-mobile-web-to-force-app-downloads
Published: May 12, 2026 17:16
Reddit's message to its most loyal lurkers is this: your anonymity is the one thing we can't monetize.
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Jess Phillips Resigns, Pushes Phone Scanning Law in UK
https://reclaimthenet.org/jess-phillips-resigns-pushes-phone-scanning-law-in-uk
Published: May 12, 2026 15:39
A departing UK minister used her resignation letter to demand device-level photo scanning on every phone in the country.
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The US Government Wants Agents Wearing Face Scanners
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-government-wants-agents-wearing-face-scanners
Published: May 11, 2026 17:06
The government is building glasses that turn a glance into a federal database query and the deployment date is already set.
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Sweden Wants to Strap Tracking Devices on Children as Young as 13
https://reclaimthenet.org/sweden-child-surveillance-bracelets
Published: May 11, 2026 16:55
The country that once exported its parenting model to the world now wants to put ankle monitors on 13-year-olds who haven't been charged with a crime.
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Shapiro’s AI Chatbot Plan Opens the Door to ID-Gated, Surveilled Conversations
https://reclaimthenet.org/josh-shapiro-ai-chatbot-id-surveillance-character-ai-lawsuit
Published: May 11, 2026 16:53
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 single word gets through.
The post Shapiro’s AI Chatbot…
Europol Ran Secret Data Platforms on Millions of Innocents
https://reclaimthenet.org/europol-ran-secret-data-platforms-on-millions-of-innocents
Published: May 11, 2026 15:35
The agency tasked with protecting Europe's data built a secret two-petabyte surveillance machine that its own privacy officer couldn't account for.
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Anonymous Canadian Sues DHS to Stop Google From Revealing His Identity Over Critical Posts
https://reclaimthenet.org/canadian-sues-dhs-over-google-unmasking-demand
Published: May 11, 2026 14:30
The US government is using a 96-year-old customs fraud statute to hunt down a Canadian over tweets.
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