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Pavel Durov | Communication Technology and the Struggle for Freedom | Oslo Freedom Forum
He built platforms to protect speech when speaking freely became dangerous.
At the Oslo Freedom Forum, Pavel Durov shares how Telegram emerged from a commitment to free expression and why defending digital freedom is central to protecting human rights today.
01/06/2026
#BigBrother #Telegram #PavelDurov
He built platforms to protect speech when speaking freely became dangerous.
At the Oslo Freedom Forum, Pavel Durov shares how Telegram emerged from a commitment to free expression and why defending digital freedom is central to protecting human rights today.
01/06/2026
#BigBrother #Telegram #PavelDurov
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🇬🇧Fiona Rose Diamond explaining how it's one law for us and something else for them... excuse the language... rightfully we should all be fuming.
@alwaysfollowyourconscience
#UK #Dystopia #BigBrother
@alwaysfollowyourconscience
#UK #Dystopia #BigBrother
UK Speech Regulator's Telegram Questions Point Toward Private Chats | Reclaim The Net
One arsonist is now the reason a messaging app may be asked to read along with everyone.
Britain’s communications regulator is pressing Telegram to find ways of seeing what its users say to one another in private. Ofcom has begun questioning the messaging app about how it detects and prevents illegal incitement, following the conviction of a Ukrainian man for arson attacks on a car and properties connected to Prime Minister Keir Starmer...
.. . The push runs in one direction across the Online Safety Act, through age checks, hash-matching against databases of banned images, automated tools to flag grooming and self-harm content, and now questions about catching incitement inside private chats.
@reclaimthenet
#UK #BigBrother #Telegram #ScammerStarmer #OnlineSafetyAct
One arsonist is now the reason a messaging app may be asked to read along with everyone.
Britain’s communications regulator is pressing Telegram to find ways of seeing what its users say to one another in private. Ofcom has begun questioning the messaging app about how it detects and prevents illegal incitement, following the conviction of a Ukrainian man for arson attacks on a car and properties connected to Prime Minister Keir Starmer...
.. . The push runs in one direction across the Online Safety Act, through age checks, hash-matching against databases of banned images, automated tools to flag grooming and self-harm content, and now questions about catching incitement inside private chats.
@reclaimthenet
#UK #BigBrother #Telegram #ScammerStarmer #OnlineSafetyAct
The House Just Voted for KOSA, a Privacy and Free Speech Disaster | Reclaim The Net
.. .That is the First Amendment problem dressed as a child-safety provision. Verifying age means verifying identity, and identity checks sit between a person and ordinary protected activity, whether that is reading, watching, posting, or speaking. Adult websites would face explicit age-verification requirements under the package, which functionally means every visitor proves who they are before viewing lawful content. Anonymous and pseudonymous speech, the kind the Supreme Court has shielded for decades, gets harder to find the more platforms lean on identity to limit their liability.
The bill tightens how data brokers handle children’s information and updates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act to widen its reach...
@reclaimthenet
#Kosa #US #BigBrother #AgeVerification
.. .That is the First Amendment problem dressed as a child-safety provision. Verifying age means verifying identity, and identity checks sit between a person and ordinary protected activity, whether that is reading, watching, posting, or speaking. Adult websites would face explicit age-verification requirements under the package, which functionally means every visitor proves who they are before viewing lawful content. Anonymous and pseudonymous speech, the kind the Supreme Court has shielded for decades, gets harder to find the more platforms lean on identity to limit their liability.
The bill tightens how data brokers handle children’s information and updates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act to widen its reach...
@reclaimthenet
#Kosa #US #BigBrother #AgeVerification
EU Mandates Driver-Facing Cameras in New Cars From Today | Reclaim The Net
Every new car and van sold across the European Union will watch its driver from July 7, when an infrared camera aimed at the person behind the wheel becomes a legal condition of sale. The requirement reaches tens of millions of vehicles a year, and it arrives wrapped in the language of safety.
The rule goes by Advanced Driver Distraction Warning, or ADDW, and is inside the bloc’s General Safety Regulation, formally 2019/2144. Carmakers have had to fit it to new vehicle types since July 2024. From July 7, 2026, they must fit it to every new car and van that reaches the market.
Fuck the #EU #BigBrother #Dystopia
Every new car and van sold across the European Union will watch its driver from July 7, when an infrared camera aimed at the person behind the wheel becomes a legal condition of sale. The requirement reaches tens of millions of vehicles a year, and it arrives wrapped in the language of safety.
The rule goes by Advanced Driver Distraction Warning, or ADDW, and is inside the bloc’s General Safety Regulation, formally 2019/2144. Carmakers have had to fit it to new vehicle types since July 2024. From July 7, 2026, they must fit it to every new car and van that reaches the market.
Fuck the #EU #BigBrother #Dystopia
💥 The BBC YouTube fight is the last move, not the first
🟠 The BBC Lost the Audience, Now It Wants the Algorithm - READ MORE:
https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/07/07/the-bbc-lost-the-audience-now-it-wants-the-algorithm/
The UK government’s June 2026 consultation document is called Watch This Space. It proposes giving an unnamed authority the power to determine which news outlets get algorithmically elevated on YouTube, TikTok, and every major platform operating in Britain.
Within days of its publication, YouTube pushed a notification to hundreds of thousands of UK creators warning them the government planned to “put some channels above others,” and the hashtag #KeepYouTubeYours tore across the same platforms Labour wants to regulate, faster and further than any #BBC press release has managed in years.
@My21wire
#UK #BigBrother #Dystopia #Censorship #YouTube #WatchThisSpace
🟠 The BBC Lost the Audience, Now It Wants the Algorithm - READ MORE:
https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/07/07/the-bbc-lost-the-audience-now-it-wants-the-algorithm/
The UK government’s June 2026 consultation document is called Watch This Space. It proposes giving an unnamed authority the power to determine which news outlets get algorithmically elevated on YouTube, TikTok, and every major platform operating in Britain.
Within days of its publication, YouTube pushed a notification to hundreds of thousands of UK creators warning them the government planned to “put some channels above others,” and the hashtag #KeepYouTubeYours tore across the same platforms Labour wants to regulate, faster and further than any #BBC press release has managed in years.
@My21wire
#UK #BigBrother #Dystopia #Censorship #YouTube #WatchThisSpace
🇲🇽 Excellent:
"Millions of ordinary people simply hadn’t complied. Not through organised protest. Not through court cases. Just by quietly carrying on with their lives.
The government blinked. Millions of ordinary people, not by marching or organising, just by carrying on with their lives, forced one of the most ambitious biometric registration programmes in the world to retreat. At least for now."
https://janemurdochcyber.substack.com/p/mexico-just-told-127-million-people
@iaindavis
#Mexico #BiometricID #BigBrother #Dystopia #DigitalID #Biometric
"Millions of ordinary people simply hadn’t complied. Not through organised protest. Not through court cases. Just by quietly carrying on with their lives.
The government blinked. Millions of ordinary people, not by marching or organising, just by carrying on with their lives, forced one of the most ambitious biometric registration programmes in the world to retreat. At least for now."
https://janemurdochcyber.substack.com/p/mexico-just-told-127-million-people
@iaindavis
#Mexico #BiometricID #BigBrother #Dystopia #DigitalID #Biometric
Tucker Carlson July 15, 2026
Whistleblower Reveals the Largest Mass Surveillance Operation in History and the Coming Slave State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH3QGv2L9ng
#BigBrother #US #MassSurveillance
Whistleblower Reveals the Largest Mass Surveillance Operation in History and the Coming Slave State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH3QGv2L9ng
#BigBrother #US #MassSurveillance
🇫🇷French Parliament Reaches Deal on Social Media Ban | Reclaim The Net
Two hours in a closed room, and France agreed that #anonymity online was a price worth paying for a headline about protecting children
French lawmakers spent Monday afternoon behind closed doors agreeing that children under 15 should be locked out of social media. They built a legal requirement for every adult in France to prove who they are before they can post anything.
Seven deputies and seven senators, sitting as a commission mixte paritaire, took roughly two hours to reconcile two very different versions of Renaissance deputy Laure Miller’s bill. The text they produced follows the National Assembly almost exactly.
A new provision slotted into France’s 2004 digital economy law declares that “access to an online social network service provided by an online platform is forbidden to minors under fifteen years of age.”
@reclaimthenet
#France #AgeVerification #BigBrother #SocialMedia
Two hours in a closed room, and France agreed that #anonymity online was a price worth paying for a headline about protecting children
French lawmakers spent Monday afternoon behind closed doors agreeing that children under 15 should be locked out of social media. They built a legal requirement for every adult in France to prove who they are before they can post anything.
Seven deputies and seven senators, sitting as a commission mixte paritaire, took roughly two hours to reconcile two very different versions of Renaissance deputy Laure Miller’s bill. The text they produced follows the National Assembly almost exactly.
A new provision slotted into France’s 2004 digital economy law declares that “access to an online social network service provided by an online platform is forbidden to minors under fifteen years of age.”
@reclaimthenet
#France #AgeVerification #BigBrother #SocialMedia
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GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta | Reclaim The Net
Border search law, Fifth Amendment claims, and Cop City politics collide in an Atlanta federal court case.
The Justice Department is asking a federal court in Atlanta to treat a man’s erasure of his own phone as destruction of property, in the first known US prosecution built on a phone’s duress password.
Samuel Tunick faces one count under Title 18, Section 2232(a), a statute covering the destruction of property to stop the government from taking it. Prosecutors say he handed Customs and Border Protection officers a passcode that deleted the contents of his Google Pixel instead of unlocking it. His lawyers appeared before the court for the first time on Monday, arguing that officers ran a custodial interrogation without Miranda warnings, denied him a lawyer, and searched him unlawfully. They want everything obtained from the encounter suppressed.
@reclaimthenet
#Dystopia #BigBrother #DataWipe
#GrapheneOS #US
Border search law, Fifth Amendment claims, and Cop City politics collide in an Atlanta federal court case.
The Justice Department is asking a federal court in Atlanta to treat a man’s erasure of his own phone as destruction of property, in the first known US prosecution built on a phone’s duress password.
Samuel Tunick faces one count under Title 18, Section 2232(a), a statute covering the destruction of property to stop the government from taking it. Prosecutors say he handed Customs and Border Protection officers a passcode that deleted the contents of his Google Pixel instead of unlocking it. His lawyers appeared before the court for the first time on Monday, arguing that officers ran a custodial interrogation without Miranda warnings, denied him a lawyer, and searched him unlawfully. They want everything obtained from the encounter suppressed.
@reclaimthenet
#Dystopia #BigBrother #DataWipe
#GrapheneOS #US
You Can Say No: How to Opt Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport (2026) | FacePrivacy Blog
The camera at the TSA podium is optional. That's official policy — not a loophole, not a favor. But the signage is easy to miss, agents don't always volunteer it, and by the time most travelers wonder if they had a choice, the scan is done. Here's how to decline, in seven words.
"Face scanning at U.S. airport checkpoints has gone from pilot program to default. TSA already uses facial comparison at hundreds of checkpoints, and its "Touchless ID" program is slated to reach roughly 65 airports by Spring 2026.
The technology is presented as a convenience — look at the camera, skip the fumbling. What's presented much more quietly is that, for standard domestic screening, you can simply decline."
#US #BiometricID #AirportBiometricScanning
#FacialRecognition
#BigBrother #Dystopia
Every day, surveillance infrastructure expands, maintaining facial privacy will become nearly impossible within this decade.
The camera at the TSA podium is optional. That's official policy — not a loophole, not a favor. But the signage is easy to miss, agents don't always volunteer it, and by the time most travelers wonder if they had a choice, the scan is done. Here's how to decline, in seven words.
"Face scanning at U.S. airport checkpoints has gone from pilot program to default. TSA already uses facial comparison at hundreds of checkpoints, and its "Touchless ID" program is slated to reach roughly 65 airports by Spring 2026.
The technology is presented as a convenience — look at the camera, skip the fumbling. What's presented much more quietly is that, for standard domestic screening, you can simply decline."
#US #BiometricID #AirportBiometricScanning
#FacialRecognition
#BigBrother #Dystopia
Every day, surveillance infrastructure expands, maintaining facial privacy will become nearly impossible within this decade.
UK government is seeking to bring “bossware” under control
In the UK, workplace monitoring technology, or “bossware,” is becoming more common. It increasingly tracks employees’ activity, measures their performance and supports decisions that affect their working lives.
So, in a public consultation launched on 8 July 2026, the Government is proposing either guidance or legislation to control its use...
https://expose-news.com/2026/08/04/uk-government-is-seeking/
@dailyexpose
#UK #BigBrother #Surveillance #Bossware
In the UK, workplace monitoring technology, or “bossware,” is becoming more common. It increasingly tracks employees’ activity, measures their performance and supports decisions that affect their working lives.
So, in a public consultation launched on 8 July 2026, the Government is proposing either guidance or legislation to control its use...
https://expose-news.com/2026/08/04/uk-government-is-seeking/
@dailyexpose
#UK #BigBrother #Surveillance #Bossware
Italy's Draft AI Decree Lets Police Take the Biometrics of Everyone at a Protest | Reclaim The Net
Italy's government has written a decree that would let police collect the biometric data of everyone entering a location it designates as "sensitive" for public order and store that data for seven days. Its own data protection authority, the Garante, said in its formal opinion that the provision is "not coherent with the AI Act," the European regulation the decree exists to implement.
Public squares, stadiums, railway stations and streets during demonstrations, marches, sports events and concerts are the examples given in the parliamentary papers. Where the edge of a square or a street would be drawn, the draft does not say. Article 10 leaves the operating rules to a later decree from the interior minister, written after consulting the Garante.
@reclaimthenet
#Italia #Italy #BigBrother #Biometric
Italy's government has written a decree that would let police collect the biometric data of everyone entering a location it designates as "sensitive" for public order and store that data for seven days. Its own data protection authority, the Garante, said in its formal opinion that the provision is "not coherent with the AI Act," the European regulation the decree exists to implement.
Public squares, stadiums, railway stations and streets during demonstrations, marches, sports events and concerts are the examples given in the parliamentary papers. Where the edge of a square or a street would be drawn, the draft does not say. Article 10 leaves the operating rules to a later decree from the interior minister, written after consulting the Garante.
@reclaimthenet
#Italia #Italy #BigBrother #Biometric
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Freedom of speech dying a slow death in Europe – https://forumgeopolitica.com/article/freedom-of-speech-dying-a-slow-death-in-europe
Orwellian laws and the new “criminals”
Europe has accelerated down a path of regulation that treats speech itself as a danger to be managed by the State and its corporate enforcers. This is clearly reflected in the bloc’s supranational tools for speech suppression. The Digital Services Act (DSA) compels very large online platforms (VLOPs) to assess and mitigate “systemic risks” and platforms must act swiftly on notifications of illegal material or face fines up to 6% of global annual turnover. Though it claims to balance rights, the DSA’s risk-assessment mandates and enforcement mechanisms encourage over-compliance, leading to collateral censorship of lawful but controversial or unpopular speech.
That’s because the #DSA doesn’t just cover outright illegal content, hate speech, and threats to fundamental rights, but also "disinformation" and “any actual or foreseeable negative effects on civic discourse and electoral processes”. These are intentionally vague terms of course, as speech that has a “negative impact on public discourse” can literally be anything the establishment doesn’t like. Another “systemic risk” that the DSA compels platforms to screen for is content that can have “serious negative consequences to the person’s physical and mental well-being”. That could also literally mean anything, including just being offended by another person’s opinions.
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Fuck the #EU #Dystopia #BigBrother
#DigitalServicesAct #Censorship
Freedom of speech dying a slow death in Europe – https://forumgeopolitica.com/article/freedom-of-speech-dying-a-slow-death-in-europe
Orwellian laws and the new “criminals”
Europe has accelerated down a path of regulation that treats speech itself as a danger to be managed by the State and its corporate enforcers. This is clearly reflected in the bloc’s supranational tools for speech suppression. The Digital Services Act (DSA) compels very large online platforms (VLOPs) to assess and mitigate “systemic risks” and platforms must act swiftly on notifications of illegal material or face fines up to 6% of global annual turnover. Though it claims to balance rights, the DSA’s risk-assessment mandates and enforcement mechanisms encourage over-compliance, leading to collateral censorship of lawful but controversial or unpopular speech.
That’s because the #DSA doesn’t just cover outright illegal content, hate speech, and threats to fundamental rights, but also "disinformation" and “any actual or foreseeable negative effects on civic discourse and electoral processes”. These are intentionally vague terms of course, as speech that has a “negative impact on public discourse” can literally be anything the establishment doesn’t like. Another “systemic risk” that the DSA compels platforms to screen for is content that can have “serious negative consequences to the person’s physical and mental well-being”. That could also literally mean anything, including just being offended by another person’s opinions.
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Fuck the #EU #Dystopia #BigBrother
#DigitalServicesAct #Censorship
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How the Epstein Network is Privatizing Govt & Building the Surveillance State(w/Whitney Webb) | Chris Hedges Report
Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to build out the ‘Silicon Heartland’
(0:00) Intro
(3:10) Who is Leslie Wexner?
(7:09) What is the agenda behind the data centers?
(14:46) What is the vision of Big Tech?
(17:18) Privatizing state funds
(20:02) Mike #DeWine’s connections to #LeslieWexner
(21:08) What are public-private-partnerships?
(25:08) Israeli ties to the tech companies
(28:49) #Anduril and the #Thiel network
(32:11) Smart Columbus
(34:59) Totalitarian capitalism
(41:03) Outro
https://chrishedges.substack.com/
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/03/investigative-reports/technate-ohio-new-albany/
#BigBrother #MassSurveillance
Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to build out the ‘Silicon Heartland’
(0:00) Intro
(3:10) Who is Leslie Wexner?
(7:09) What is the agenda behind the data centers?
(14:46) What is the vision of Big Tech?
(17:18) Privatizing state funds
(20:02) Mike #DeWine’s connections to #LeslieWexner
(21:08) What are public-private-partnerships?
(25:08) Israeli ties to the tech companies
(28:49) #Anduril and the #Thiel network
(32:11) Smart Columbus
(34:59) Totalitarian capitalism
(41:03) Outro
https://chrishedges.substack.com/
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/03/investigative-reports/technate-ohio-new-albany/
#BigBrother #MassSurveillance
Russia Blocks GrapheneOS Infrastructure, Forcing Two Server Moves | Reclaim The Net
#GrapheneOS is reporting that #Russia has started blocking the infrastructure that carries its services, forcing the project to move the traffic of its users in country to different servers twice in a matter of weeks.
The first time, Russian traffic was rerouted from a DataPacket server in Frankfurt to a Cherry Servers machine in Amsterdam. But then Russia started filtering that IP address space as well, and the traffic had to be moved again, this time to a Zare server in London.
@reclaimthenet
#BigBrother #Censorship
#GrapheneOS is reporting that #Russia has started blocking the infrastructure that carries its services, forcing the project to move the traffic of its users in country to different servers twice in a matter of weeks.
The first time, Russian traffic was rerouted from a DataPacket server in Frankfurt to a Cherry Servers machine in Amsterdam. But then Russia started filtering that IP address space as well, and the traffic had to be moved again, this time to a Zare server in London.
@reclaimthenet
#BigBrother #Censorship
UK Police Arrested 62,199 People Over Online Speech In Five Years
Britain’s police arrested at least 62,199 people over five years under laws governing what people say online or over the phone.
That’s a busy period for the written word. And the number of those charged over the same period is 18,510, while 12,292 people were convicted.
The Big Brother Watch report, Britain’s Free Speech Problem: How Growing Restrictions Are Stifling Speech Online and Offline, covers the period between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2025.
The laws are Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, and Section 179 of the Online Safety Act 2023.
What do they concern? Indecent or grossly offensive messages, electronic communications that are grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, or menacing, as well as the persistent use of a public network intended to cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety.
@reclaimthenet
#UK #BigBrother #FreeSpeech #Dystopia
Britain’s police arrested at least 62,199 people over five years under laws governing what people say online or over the phone.
That’s a busy period for the written word. And the number of those charged over the same period is 18,510, while 12,292 people were convicted.
The Big Brother Watch report, Britain’s Free Speech Problem: How Growing Restrictions Are Stifling Speech Online and Offline, covers the period between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2025.
The laws are Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, and Section 179 of the Online Safety Act 2023.
What do they concern? Indecent or grossly offensive messages, electronic communications that are grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, or menacing, as well as the persistent use of a public network intended to cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety.
@reclaimthenet
#UK #BigBrother #FreeSpeech #Dystopia
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Von der Leyen says the EU will protect children online with "safety by design" and a new age verification app.
Don't be fooled. Soon every platform will need your ID regardless of age, and Brussels gets to decide which apps are "certified".
They are building the infrastructure to know exactly who is online and when.
@irishmaninrussia
Fuck The #EU #VonDerLeyen
#BigBrother #DigitalID
Don't be fooled. Soon every platform will need your ID regardless of age, and Brussels gets to decide which apps are "certified".
They are building the infrastructure to know exactly who is online and when.
@irishmaninrussia
Fuck The #EU #VonDerLeyen
#BigBrother #DigitalID
The Mexican government and Mexican telecommunications companies have disconnected millions of phone lines belonging to citizens who failed to register their phones with their identities.
Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/the-mexican-government-is-cutting-off-users-who-refuse-to-register-their-phone-lines
@TFTPofficial
#Mexico #DigitalID #BigBrother #Dystopia
Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/the-mexican-government-is-cutting-off-users-who-refuse-to-register-their-phone-lines
@TFTPofficial
#Mexico #DigitalID #BigBrother #Dystopia