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On March 21st, 2026 with 27 comments
"Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper," writes EFF senior policy analyst Joe Mullin.
"That's
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On March 21st, 2026 with 54 comments
13 million people live in Moscow, reports CNN.
But since early March the city "has experienced internet and mobile service outages on a level previously...
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On March 18th, 2026 with 25 comments
Cloudflare is appealing a 14.2 million-euro fine from Italy for refusing to comply with its "Piracy Shield" law, which requires blocking access to websites on...
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On March 15th, 2026 with 26 comments
Wikipedia describes Freenet as "a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication," released in the year 2000. "Both Freenet and some...
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On March 2nd, 2026 with 59 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Charter Communications, operator of the Spectrum cable brand, has obtained Federal Communications...
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On February 19th, 2026 with 55 comments
The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restricted under local...
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On January 29th, 2026 with 13 comments
joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: The FBI has seized the notorious RAMP cybercrime forum, a platform used to advertise a wide range of malware...
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On January 21st, 2026 with 28 comments
Snap has settled a social media addiction lawsuit just days before trial, while Meta, TikTok, and Alphabet remain defendants and are headed to court. "Terms of...
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On January 19th, 2026 with 53 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Lawmakers in Washington are once again focusing on kids, screens, and mental...
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On January 13th, 2026 with 63 comments
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE Act), giving victims of sexually explicit AI...
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On January 5th, 2026 with 9 comments
Anna's Archive lost control of its primary .org domain after it was placed on registry-level serverHold -- "an action that's typically taken by the domain name...
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On December 24th, 2025 with 169 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading...
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On December 23rd, 2025 with 128 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss,...
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On December 19th, 2025 with 37 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Search Engine Land: Google said today that it is suing SerpApi, accusing the company of bypassing security protections...
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On December 19th, 2025 with 13 comments
The White House says it's investigating how a personal-finance YouTuber's livestream briefly appeared on the White House's official live video page. The...
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On November 19th, 2025 with 23 comments
A Tokyo court ruled that Cloudflare is liable for aiding manga piracy after failing to act on infringement notices and continuing to cache and serve content...
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On November 18th, 2025 with 34 comments
Researchers at the University of Vienna extracted phone numbers for 3.5 billion WhatsApp users by systematically checking every possible number through the...
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On November 6th, 2025 with 12 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In a submission for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report (PDF), Cloudflare warns the U.S. government...
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On October 31st, 2025 with 28 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: Denmark's justice minister on Thursday said he will no longer push for an EU law requiring the mandatory...
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On September 14th, 2025 with 42 comments
"When residents of Equatorial Guinea's Annobón island wrote to the government in Malabo in July last year complaining about the dynamite explosions by a...
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On August 8th, 2025 with 96 comments
Advocacy groups have decided not to appeal a federal court ruling striking down Biden-era net neutrality rules, citing the FCC's current Republican majority...
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On July 25th, 2025 with 10 comments
The Internet Archive has received federal depository library status from California Sen. Alex Padilla, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive...
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On July 22nd, 2025 with 48 comments
The Brave Browser now blocks Microsoft Recall by default for Windows 11+ users, preventing the controversial screenshot-logging feature from capturing any...
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On July 22nd, 2025 with 74 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A California lawmaker halted an effort to pass a law that would force Internet service providers to...
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On July 17th, 2025 with 83 comments
Russian lawmakers passed sweeping new legislation allowing authorities to fine individuals simply for searching and accessing content labeled "extremist" via...
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On June 20th, 2025 with 41 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can...
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On June 11th, 2025 with 54 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Fresh data released by piracy tracking outfit MUSO shows that pirate sites remain popular. In a report...
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On June 5th, 2025 with 49 comments
China's southernmost province of Hainan is piloting a programme to grant select corporate users broad access to the global internet, a rare move in a country...
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On April 22nd, 2025 with 20 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Cloud-based web application platform Vercel is among the latest companies to find their servers blocked...
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On April 21st, 2025 with 76 comments
Verizon Consumer CEO Sowmyanarayan Sampath has declared that net neutrality regulations "went literally nowhere." Sampath claimed he couldn't identify what...
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