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A security officer patrols at the front of the Senate precincts in Nairobi on October 16, 2024. (Photo by Tony KARUMBA / AFP)

What Kenya's AI Bill Gets Wrong About Political Expression

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A bronze statue of two human figures with expressive poses is displayed in front of a modern glass building with a blue banner that reads "Commission européenne" and "Europese Commissie." The setting suggests it is the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The figures in the sculpture appear contemplative and dynamic, with one raising an arm and the other looking upward.

Office of European Commission in Brussels. 

Charting the Transatlantic Far Right Campaign Against Europe’s Digital Rules

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Coalition for Independent Technology Research executive director Brandi Geurkink makes remarks outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, D.C., which houses the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, as members of the coalition (including the author) look on. (Photo credit: Joe Newman)

Dispatch from the Coalition for Independent Technology Research v. Rubio District Court Hearing

Ariel Fox Johnson

Wood caving of a map of the lower 48 US states

The Ninth Circuit Provides a Potential Roadmap for Future Child Safety Laws

Murad Ali Bhatti

Siddharth Muchhal

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confers with President Donald Trump on Thursday, April 10, 2025, in the Cabinet Room. (Official White House Photo by Molly Roberts)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confers with President Donald Trump on Thursday, April 10, 2025, in the Cabinet Room. (Official 

Amicus Briefs Say Trump Immigration Policy Chills Researchers’ Speech

Amber Sinha

There are 16 different small square images in this collage. Each of them have a grid background and different neon coloured square patterns in the squares. One looks like a flower, another looks like a random array of pixels, and the other is 4 blue squares. 

Game of Pixels x Toy Models by Elise Racine, 

Indian States Proposed Speech Bills Could Create a Censorship Patchwork

Apar Gupta

Cut-out boards of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are put up along a street prior to a road show during a campaign rally ahead of the West Bengal state Legislative Assembly elections, in Kolkata, India, Sunday, April 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Three Justifications—and the AI Accelerant—of India’s Digital Censorship Infrastructure

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Felix Mutati, MP, Zambia’s Minister of Technology and Science, in a 2025 photo. Earlier this week, Mutati announced the government would seek to ‘postpone’ RightsCon just days before it was set to begin. 

Felix Mutati, MP, Zambia’s Minister of Technology and Science, in a 2025 

 the government would seek to ‘postpone’ RightsCon just days before it was set to begin. 

RightsCon Canceled After Zambia Requires ‘Full Alignment’ With 'National Values'

A close-up view of a bundle of colorful Internet LAN cables connected to networking equipment, showing details of the blue, orange, and yellow cables.

India’s Decentralized System of Internet Censorship

Erika Nguyen

HOHHOT, CHINA: A blood moon lights up the night sky during a total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026 in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Wang Xiaobo/VCG via AP)

Tech Companies Must End Complicity in Online Repression of Mongolian Culture

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A photo of the front panel of the very first Interface Message Processor (IMP). This one was used at the UCLA Boelter 3420 lab to transmit the first message on the Internet. Wikimedia/CC by 3.0

A photo of the front panel of the very first 

 (IMP). This one was used at the UCLA Boelter 3420 lab to transmit the first message on the Internet. 

How the Internet Can Survive an Era of Rivalry and Fragmentation

Tech workers from Google, Meta and Amazon protest against Big Tech supplying Israel with intelligence tools outside Google offices in Chelsea, Manhattan, NY, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Google faced criticism for terminating employees dissenting its relationship between the Israel Defense Forces. (Photo by Cristina Matuozzi/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Google Employees Push Back on Government Surveillance Contracts

Philip M. Napoli

Andrew Ferguson, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)


Considering the Federal Trade Commission’s Double Standard on Media Bias

Luke Hogg

Nick Garcia

An older black woman in a leather jacket and short hair is laughing with her friend, an older white woman in a zebra print blouse with bobbed hair and sunglasses on her head are both laughing. They are standing in front of a display of past technological inventions - a computer server, a telephone and a wireless radio. The white woman is holding a mobile phone, chat ChatGPT is loaded on the screen. The women are comparing ChatGPT to previous technological breakthroughs.

New and unprecedented, is it? by Ada Jušić & Eleonora Lima (KCL) / 

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