The new rules, seen by watchdogs as a way to protect children online, have sparked a furious backlash from thousands of users ...

EXCLUSIVE: James Baker said that, important as it was to protect young people from online harm, it was just as crucial to respect their freedom of expression rights.

The mortal sin of Covid-era America was timidity. Absent years-long lockdowns and top-down speech controls, the most morbid ...

Spotify updates its privacy policy to include facial ID scans from Yoti for age verification for 18+ content access to comply ...

It’s too early to know how this law will settle into full implementation, but its implications are clear: For determined kids ...

The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA) went into effect July 25, offering America a sneak peek at an age-verified ...

Britain's online safety law risks suppressing free speech due to its heavy-handed enforcement, social media site X said on ...

X says Britain's newly-enacted Online Safety Act "seriously" is on the cusp of violating free speech masked as the fight to ...

While the Online Safety Act was passed back in 2023, the part relating to age verification didn't come into force until July 25, 2025. That has now triggered a renewed interest in VPN software from ...

This implies that, at the time of writing, anyone who fails the "highly reliable signals" part of X age verification is ...

US politicians also suggested the UK government's actions during the Southport riot would "chill speech". They have carried ...