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Earlier this week, OpenAI became the latest tech company to publicly endorse KOSA, the Kids Online Safety Act. The company, conveniently, tries to frame this as being about its support of child saf…

Iranians have had limited internet access during the war, with the government now looking at tiered services.

A new “Christian” mobile phone provider named Radiant Mobile is promising to offer a wireless service that censors all LGBTQ+ content. The MVNO (mobile virtual network operator), which …

The lawsuit challenges a Trump administration policy that could deny visas or legal status to people accused of ‘censoring Americans’

ABC/Disney, like most major media companies, has spent much of its time during America’s bout with authoritarianism being a feckless wimp. The company was quick to ditch its already fleeting …

PEN America counted 3,743 unique titles pulled from school libraries in the latest academic year — and nonfiction is now a front-line target. According to PEN's Facts & Fiction report,…

From Nypost RSS Feed: Small high school sparks fury over witch hunt into student paper for exposing woman’s link to Epstein

Niger’s military government has banned dozens of local and foreign reporters since seizing power in 2023.

Welsh nurseries have been told to report children as young as three to police for ‘racist incidents’ under a new government‑backed guidance

Growing up in Brazil in the 1960s and 70s, I had no frame of reference for free speech. My Spanish mother had grown up with Franco, so all we knew were dictatorships. We were careful with what we s…

The Western crackdown on RT is censorship rather than an attempt to fight alleged “disinformation,” Chief Producer Dmitry Leontiev has said

From Reddit - r/singularity: I bypassed DeepSeek's censorship filters with a fictional planet trick, here's what happened.

For fifty-five days and counting, the Islamic Republic of Iran has kept ninety-two million people offline.

The Balkanization of Bitcoin: How Stratum V2 and the Pleb Miner Defeat OFAC Base-Layer Censorship. The state couldn't ban the network, so they captured the corporate miners.…

The Balkanization of Bitcoin: How Stratum V2 and the Pleb Miner Defeat OFAC Base-Layer Censorship. The state couldn't ban the network, so they captured the corporate miners.…

From Reddit - r/videos: MAGA censorship scandal! Trump sparks free speech outcry as FCC probes & Kimmel RESPONDS

Canadian VPN provider Windscribe has released a standalone Stealth app for Android designed specifically to bypass state-level internet censorship in Iran, Russia, and China using advanced traffic obfuscation that disguises VPN connections as ordinary web…

Plus, inside a Black Panther family album, predatory art-world relationships, and the unknown Qing Dynasty trade portraitists.

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On February 9, 1927, Mae West was arrested after a performance of her play Sex, which she had written and in which she sta…