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US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere

BeauHD / slashdot - 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 laws, "including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda," reports Reuters. Washington vie…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #government #internet #us #globalism #dos #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

14 days / theregister / Carly Page

US website 'freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech and other blocked content

14 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Metadata, cloud sovereignty’s weak spot

14 days / techzine / Erik van Klinken

US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content | Internet

15 days / reddit / /u/YesNo_Maybe_

A new US government site could help users worldwide access blocked content

15 days / techspot

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 9:21 pm / permalink 19446 / 6 stories in 15 days


Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram’s beauty filters and age checks in court

Shannon Carroll / qz - In a bellwether youth-harm trial, the Meta CEO defended Instagram’s design choices as trade-offs, not tactics built to keep teens hooked

#techpolicy #meta #judiciary #zuckerberg #mentalhealth #law #contentmoderation #instagram #litigation #safety

The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it

15 days / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled On Usage Goals and Underage Users At California Trial

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Zuckerberg's Trial Testimony Pushes Back on Social Media Addiction Claims

15 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/zuckerberg-grilled-in-court-over-social-media-harms-on-teens/

15 days / bsky / @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Mark Zuckerberg Testifies in Social Media Addiction Trial

15 days / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens

15 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Mark Zuckerberg said very little on his first day of testimony—but the fact he’s here at all is a major moment

15 days / fastcompany / Chris Stokel-Walker

Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram’s beauty filters and age checks in court

15 days / qz / Shannon Carroll

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 11:21 am / permalink 19417 / 8 stories in 15 days


West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting

appleinsider - West Virginia's attorney general believes iCloud is the greatest platform ever made to distribute child porn, and is the first government to sue Apple after a previous class action failed.Apple is under fire over its handling of CSAM on iCloud serversThe …

#cloud #techpolicy #cloudsec #apple #government #us #law #contentmoderation #litigation #digitalprivacy

The legal fight that could force Apple to rethink iCloud design

15 days / fastcompany / Taylor Hatmaker

Apple Sued by West Virginia for Allegedly Allowing CSAM Distribution Through iCloud

15 days / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple Sued Over Allegations of CSAM on iCloud

15 days / cnet / Corinne Reichert

Remember in 2022 when Apple killed its plan to detect CSAM stored in iCloud accounts? (There was a huge uproar from privacy advocates.) Now West Virginia is suing Apple over the decision. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/a...

15 days / bsky / @stevekovach.bsky.social / stevekovach.bsky.social

Apple Sued by West Virginia for Allegedly Allowing CSAM Distribution Through iCloud

15 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

West Virginia sues Apple for allegedly letting child abuse spread in iCloud

15 days / theverge / Emma Roth

West Virginia is suing Apple alleging negligence over CSAM materials

15 days / engadget / Andre Revilla

West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting

15 days / appleinsider

Apple sued by West Virginia for alleged failure to stop child sexual abuse material on iCloud, iOS devices

15 days / cnbc

West Virginia Claims That Apple Allows Child Sexual Abuse Material

15 days / nytimes / Kalley Huang

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 10:21 am / permalink 19415 / 10 stories in 15 days


New law requires tech firms to take down non-consensual images within 48 hours

Oscar Hornstein / uktech - News laws requiring tech platforms to take down intimate images shared without the consent of the subject within 48 hours are set to come into effect. Through an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, online platforms could face fines of up to 10% of t…

#techpolicy #government #uk #internet #law #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

A new UK law would give platforms 48 hours to act on abusive content.

15 days / bsky / @siliconrepublic.bsky.social / siliconrepublic.bsky.social

UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

15 days / theregister / Joe Fay

New law requires tech firms to take down non-consensual images within 48 hours

15 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Platforms must take down abusive content under proposed UK law

15 days / siliconrepublic / Tim Barnwell

Tech firms will have 48 hours to remove abusive images under new law

15 days / reddit / /u/plain_handle

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 4:20 am / permalink 19402 / 5 stories in 15 days


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