Censorship
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
Can you judge the heat of a moral panic by the number of bills purporting to solve it? At the height of human trafficking hysteria in the 2010s, every week seemed to bring some new measure meant to help the government tackle…
European proposal to surveil encrypted texts threatens speech and privacy rights
As I write, European Union (E.U.) officials are debating the details of a proposal to either require or pressure tech companies to scan all private messages for child sexual abuse material. Dubbed "chat control,"…
Excerpt from ‘The Idea Machine’ by Joel J. Miller
In The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco describes a labyrinthine monastic library large enough to lose oneself in. The novelist didn't mention how many books filled its rooms, but John O. Ward of the University of Sydney…
EXCLUSIVE: Editor of traditional Catholic site speaks after winning appeal against Google censorship
Fri Nov 14, 2025 - 9:45 am EST (LifeSiteNews) — Influential traditionalist Catholic blog Messainlatino.it has won a legal case against Google after the website was blocked by the tech giant under an apparent breach of the…
Moral panic about rough sex gives way to censorship in the UK
Second-wave feminism of the worst sort is alive and well in Britain, apparently. The United Kingdom is on its way to criminalizing depictions of choking during sex, in a move it describes as boosting "protection for…
BBC in Hot Water Over Deceptively Editing Trump Speech
It looks like there’s big, Trump-sized trouble in store for the BBC. On Monday, President Donald Trump threatened the government-funded British Broadcasting Corporation with a $1 billion lawsuit over its broadcasting of an…
The CHAT act won’t protect kids, but it might break the internet.
Congress is quietly drifting toward an ID-verified internet. The Children Harmed by AI Technology (CHAT) Act of 2025 is Washington's newest attempt to regulate speech through mandatory age checks. Rather than protecting…
Pro-freedom group warns Liberal bill could secretly cut off Canadians’ internet access
Mon Nov 3, 2025 - 1:31 pm ESTMon Nov 3, 2025 - 1:31 pm EST OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Free speech advocates have warned that the Liberals’ cybersecurity bill would allow them to block any individual’s internet access by…
When the government censored Dracula, Frankenstein, and King Kong
Tomorrow is Halloween, so let's talk about monsters. Specifically, let's talk about the monstrous government censors who once hacked and slashed their way through Hollywood's original horror classics. You’re…
Jake Tapper on censorship, media failings, and presidential power
The Reason Interview goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers who are making the world a more libertarian—or at least more interesting—place by challenging worn-out orthodoxies and ideas.…
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