🇪🇺 🚨Final negotiations on Chat Control 2.0 just started between the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the EU.

What is good:

✅ Encryption will not be broken

What is bad:

❌ Commission & Council want #IDchecks

Lots of journalists, whistleblowers, activists and dissidents choose Tuta to protect their identity. We hope the European Parliament will stick to their decision to oppose mass #surveillance and #censorship.

More on Chat Control: tuta.com/blog/chat-control-cri…

Huge Victory: Chat Control no longer forces us to break encryption! But: It now wants age verification. | Tuta

The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!

^Tuta

Spain has blocked access to freedom.gov

twitter.com/Pirat_Nation/statu…

#HackerNews #Spain #freedom #censorship #access #blockade #news

(Nitter addon enabled: Twitter links via https://nitter.privacytools.io)

- "What are you in here for? Murder? Robbery?"

- "Worse, possession of zines"

theintercept.com/2026/02/16/da…

"Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence"

Another activist was indicted for telling people how to delete messages and remove people from Signal group chats, which government lawyers argue is a first-degree felony

#freespeech #zines #anarchism #censorship #uspol #dystopia #prison #orwell

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us

The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

^{Jeremy Busby (The Intercept)}

First it's the trans folks, then it's all the other queers. And if anyone around here didn't see it coming, hie you to a library and learn something about history before they try to burn all of those down.

pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-…

#lgbtqia #lgbtq #history #censorship #pride

Trump administration takes down rainbow flag at Stonewall National Monument

Activists see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ+ history.

^{PBS News}

It is not going to end well. Orwell (sorry but he was on the ball so to speak) got it right.

theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb…

If a US administration figure is booed at the Olympics, or a World Cup match, will American domestic broadcasts simply mute or avoid mentioning the crowd audio? If so, what happens when the world feed, or a foreign broadcaster, shows something else entirely? What happens when 40,000 phones in the stadium upload their own version in real time?

#USPol #Censorship #Trump

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US

The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

^{Bryan Armen Graham (The Guardian)}