Australia imposes world‑first under-16 social media ban — The law takes effect, targeting major platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. Around the world, governments are moving to restrict children’s access to social media

Australia launches youth social media ban it says will be the world’s ‘first domino’ More than 1 million social media accounts held by users under 16 are set to be deactivated in Australia in a divisive world-first ban that is being closely watched elsewhere. Can children and teenagers be forced off social media en masse? …

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Cloudflare outage hits thousands of sites at once, knocking X and major platforms offline in a single sweep.

INTERNET SUFFERS ANOTHER MASS OUTAGE CLOUDFARE DOWN HACK? Cloudflare had a huge outage today, and it took a big chunk of the internet down with it. Sites that normally never go dark all started breaking at once. X had thousands of outage reports, AIPAC’s site and Track AIPAC went down, and even stuff like Spotify, …

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Guterres wants platforms to police speech in the name of global stability

🚨 UN CHIEF DEMANDS CENSORSHIP CRACKDOWN António Guterres has called for tighter control of social media, claiming that “false narratives” threaten the UN’s Agenda 2030 goals and global stability. He condemned what he called “a tsunami of conspiracy theories” and demanded… pic.twitter.com/UkyJVhvbEc — Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) November 10, 2025 Who decides what is true when …

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More and more sites are being blocked across the EU, the blackout expands from propaganda bans to sweeping censorship of news, platforms, and speech

The walls are closing in, and most people are too busy scrolling to see it happen. All across Europe the internet is being reshaped, not by new ideas or better technology, but by censorship that no longer asks for permission. What started as a narrow strike against Russian media has turned into a wide net …

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KOSA law fines platforms over Israel speech. Mass surveillance rising. Crackdown begins.

The Kids Online Safety Act closely follows the Anti-Defamation League’s bill targeting anti-Semitism, which often means anti-Zionism in practice. Critics say Western governments, after backing Israel’s actions in Gaza, now push this law to silence dissent online. The timing looks suspicious. The law claims to protect children but mainly punishes social media companies with heavy …

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Governments use child protection to justify global crackdown on speech. Platforms face big fines while dissenters get silenced

Governments in the UK, US, EU and Australia are now censoring anyone who exposes their censorship while claiming to shield children. That co‑ordination looks oddly synchronized. In Australia the new law bans social media for under‑16s starting December 2025 and includes YouTube after eSafety flagged it as the most harmful among youth 96 % of children …

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On Day 8 of the Israel-Iran conflict, Israel claims to have destroyed three Iranian missile platforms and killed a commander preparing an imminent strike.

Israel’s military campaign against Iran has entered its second week, and the tempo is not slowing. On Day 8 of the conflict, the Israeli Defense Forces announced they had targeted and destroyed three Iranian missile launch platforms that were reportedly being readied for launch. According to the IDF, the platforms were located inside Iranian territory …

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Mainstream media is declining, while platforms like Polymarket rise as trusted sources.

Mainstream media is on the decline, and it shows. People are growing weary of establishment lies and narratives. It's encouraging to see platforms like Polymarket, which started as a small startup and has now become a trusted source for accurate information—the market. pic.twitter.com/K6dT9LRQcQ — Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) October 17, 2024 Media falsely blames Congress …

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Riot Platforms’ sleight of hand: Bitcoin mining costs $70K per coin

by WHY_DO_I_SHOUT Riot Platforms’ $84M loss last quarter was linked here yesterday, but one thing in the linked article caught my attention. “The average direct cost to mine Bitcoin, inclusive of power credits, was $25,327 in the quarter, as compared to $5,734 per Bitcoin for the same three-month period in 2023,” Riot said. $25,327, let alone $5,734, …

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Many social media platforms are just removing anything Trump.

🇺🇸 — ELECTION INTERFERENCE: Instagram starts removing Trump videos, citing 'spam' policy. This specific video features Donald Trump speaking at a Jewish fundraiser in Deal, NJ on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/vQS5611mn0 — Belaaz News (@TheBelaaz) July 30, 2024 Snapchat REFUSES to reinstate President Trump’s account — but then shamelessly asks the Trump campaign to advertise with Snapchat …

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EU has censorship backchannel with social media platforms. Will they weaponize against Trump.

Speaking on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the commission said, “Meta has now deployed new functionalities …27 new real-time visual dashboards, one for each member state, to allow third-party real-time civic discourse and election monitoring. Last month, the European Commission opened an investigation into suspected breaches of EU online content rules against Meta, as it said its Facebook and Instagram …

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Documents Show Corporate Giants Are “Colluding to Demonetize Conservative Platforms”, Judiciary Committee Says

The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether major advertisers ran afoul of antitrust laws by coordinating about which news outlets to blackball.  The committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), obtained documents from the World Federation of Advertisers that show how it implemented a strategy to prevent major advertisers from doing business with disfavored news …

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Global outage hits top platforms including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, affecting millions worldwide.

JUST IN: Massive global outage has affected dozens of top platforms today, including the following: 📘 Facebook 📸 Instagram 🎮Google Play💬 Facebook Messenger 🎥 YouTube 📱 Google 💬 WhatsApp📭 Gmail🗺️ Google Maps📞Teams📲TikTok 👻Snapchat — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) March 5, 2024 Meta-owned Facebook, Messenger and Instagram experienced worldwide outages Tuesday, with more than half a …

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“Most Censored Man” Alex Jones Does Publicity Tour on World’s Biggest Platforms

by Chris Black Alex Jones went on Tucker Carlson, and they both claimed he was the most censored man. Ep. 46 The Alex Jones Interview TIMESTAMPS: 2:46 Alex Jones predictions 15:07 Deplatforming21:59 Dividing us on race25:37 The border28:09 Austin32:12 New World Order42:09 Brian Stelter demon video50:57 Depopulation1:07:51 Food1:13:51 Whiskey 1:16:22 Presidential… pic.twitter.com/IsJAQDUzDc — Tucker Carlson …

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Unprecedented policy goes unnoticed by mainstream media, highlighting the need for alternative platforms for accurate information.

This is one of the craziest policies we've ever seen in this country. This should be lead story for every all news media, but it isn't. The only place to get the real store is on X and some conservative websites. It's crazy 🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/Mnh8DmpCUp — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 11, 2023   Related: …

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Meta Is Still Struggling To Keep Predators Off Its Platforms, Report Says

The social media company established a child-safety task force in June after an earlier report by the Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst documented how Meta’s algorithm was struggling to stamp out a web of accounts that trade in underage-sex content. But months later, new tests by the Canadian …

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UN Announces Plan to Regulate Information, Social Media Platforms

by Chris Black You haven’t even seen disinformation yet. This has not even begun. Wait until the AI can make 30-second video clips indistinguishable from real life in 90 seconds with normal Nvidia cards based on nothing more than a text prompt. That’s when the disinformation age truly begins. You will have no ability to …

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Most Comm Platforms are Compromised – TG, WhatsApp, Signal, etc

Don’t believe me, listen carefully to these gentlemen talking to the Scottish Parliament… “Where have the messages gone?” That’s going to be the real question after everyone realizes everything they said in those “private” comm applications have been collected. So much for privacy and security. No need for any code reviews….it’s now out there for …

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ED MORRISSEY ON 20 Years in the Blogosphere, and the Danger Ahead. “The real crisis didn’t come from professionalization. It came from Big Tech platforms, which first partnered with bloggers and independent voices — and then worked to curtail or even silence them.”

via hotair: The real crisis didn’t come from professionalization. It came from Big Tech platforms, which first partnered with bloggers and independent voices — and then worked to curtail or even silence them. The first iteration of this came with Facebook, whose vast audience attracted many independents and some corporate bloggers to commit to that platform, only …

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ANOTHER SOROS-FUNDED GROUP PUSHES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS TO CENSOR ELECTION “DISINFORMATION”

An organization under the financial umbrella of outspoken billionaire George Soros is mounting a brazen bid to implement a perilous cap on free speech in America’s digital public square. Today, the battle lines are being drawn with Common Cause, a group bankrolled by Soros, gleefully trumpeting its success in nurturing a potent alliance with Big …

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EU mandates immediate removal of hate speech and misinformation [determined by government] from all platforms

https://twitter.com/balancealways/status/1694971642760303026 https://twitter.com/_Escapekey_/status/1694978363889177057 🔥 @RobertKennedyJr Calls Network Television FAKE NEWS to the Face of an NBC News Correspondent "I do not believe anything that I see on network television at this point because I think it's all distorted by agendas." pic.twitter.com/JrjoOxMXDU — The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 24, 2023 200M views. Tucker vs. Trump is …

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