The Chinese Communist Party’s latest campaign to squash pessimism and promote positivity has taken aim not at criticism of the government but rather at depictions of reality. In such a situation censorship can only mask the symptoms of economic gloom https://t.co/l3X7Vhdvbx ...

Regulatory Landscape & Policy Changes - The EU Council has removed the requirement for mandatory scanning of end-to-end encrypted messaging services, representing a significant victory against mass surveillance [1] - The EU Council's proposal lays the groundwork for future mass surveillance, indicating ongoing concerns regarding privacy and security [1] - The EU Council's version of Chat Control includes voluntary scanning and vaguely worded legislation that may lead to mandatory ID checks, even for end-to-end encrypted services [3] - The EU Council will reconsider the requirement for mandatory scanning every three years, posing a recurring threat to privacy [3][5] - A new EU center is being established to focus on blocking material, raising concerns about potential censorship and the definition of "illegal" content [3][6] Technological Implications & Surveillance Concerns - The EU Council's Chat Control version introduces AI scanning of conversations, photos, and videos to detect criminal content, potentially leading to numerous false positives and privacy violations [4] - The scanning process involves American companies and could be used to scan for virtually anything, raising concerns about broader surveillance and data access [4] - The EU may require ID checks and ban anonymous use of messaging services and social media, impacting individuals in authoritarian countries, whistleblowers, and journalists [5] Industry Response & Advocacy - The industry urges the European Parliament to demand no mass surveillance without suspicion and a court order, no ID-verification requirements, and no censorship of legal content [2] - The industry views Chat Control as a proposal aimed at introducing mass surveillance, with ongoing attempts to challenge private and secure communication [7]

RT Apljak-NH🇺🇸☘️✝️ (@apljak6502)Was a great stream @MikeBenzCyberIf you aren’t following Mike Benz,who has this uncanny ability to suspect, investigate and expose the covert spending by the Blob here and abroad that censors our voices and silences anything that they disagree with, then you should immediately start!The absolute best peak behind the Blob curtain on X🇺🇸 ...

X rolling out geolocation of accounts is just as bad as censorship in the sense it causes massive inner fighting between humans and the underlying issues are never solved.Wendy O (@CryptoWendyO):X reinstates location for users when in reality X should be more focused on accounts using AI and label them.We know everyone wants to be from the US, it is the greatest country on earth. ...

The EU's Censorship Law From Hell (and how Stanford helped create it) https://t.co/1tIXosFX72 ...

18-year-old Claudine Henry is graduating high school in just one week. She's got big plans for her last summer in Ohio. A road trip with her best friend Suzanne, nights spent at Hoft parties, and a mission to find out if the rumors are true that Wyatt Jones does like her. And Claudine plans to have sex for the first time. But all of these plans are upended when her father knocks on her bedroom door one evening and through tears tells her that he and her mother are separating. Quote, "All I can think of is h ...

RT Vijay Selvam (@vijayselvam)Been asked for my Legal take on Core v30/Spam/Filters a few times. So here it is.Counterintuitively, filters could INCREASE legal risk for nodes by decreasing plausible deniability IMO. The State says: “If you already censor CSAM voluntarily, surely you can censor XYZ user/transaction when we tell you to.” When you show that you CAN censor via a discretionary filter policy you invite state capture of individual node policies - you show editorial capacity.No filtering = plausibl ...

Opponents of Britain’s Online Safety Act worried that making profit-driven platforms responsible for removing illegal content would result in widespread censorship. That was a valid concern, but it does not seem to have materialised https://t.co/xMj5tVPUIA ...

RT Allum Bokhari (@AllumBokhari)USAID and the BBC: A Transatlantic Censorship AllianceUSAID supplied £2.6 million ($3.3m) to BBC Media Action, the nonprofit arm of the UK state broadcaster.This represented 8 percent of the nonprofit's income in 2023-4.Its goal? Countering "information disorder" 🧵 ...

Regulatory Compliance - Twitch implements face scans for UK users to comply with the government's censorship law [1] Censorship - UK government's censorship law leads to Twitch imposing face scans [1]