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Bad Apple...

Apple censors all its users by treating them as a children unless they hand over ID


Link Here27th March 2026
Full story: Internet Censorship in USA...Domain name seizures and SOPA
Apple is introducing ID/age checks for all iPhone and iPad users in the UK.

Once UK users accept the latest iOS 26.4 software update, they will be asked to verify their age to access age-restricted features and services. Onlly if they perform an ID check will their account will be configured to enable age-appropriate services.

If they choose not to, web content filters will be turned on automatically.

Apples support documentation on the change says that, depending on your country or region, different options might be available to confirm that yo'ure an adult. Potential options include using a credit card to verify age, using existing Apple account information, or uploading an identity document for age verification.

Privacy groups have been rightfully appalled; the BBC quotes Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch , who says the measure is more like ransomware.

 

 

Offsite Article: An accusation of copyright was enough to get your broadband turned off...


Link Here 27th March 2026
The US Supreme Court has refused to let the recording industry turn ISPs into copyright enforcers with the power to cut millions of people off from modern life.

See article from reclaimthenet.org

 

 

Crazy fines...

Ofcom fines porn company a likely to be ignored £1.4 million for lack of ID/age verification


Link Here26th February 2026
Full story: Online Safety Act...UK Government legislates to censor social media
Ofcom has published a notional fine of £1.4 million to a company running 4 porn tubes sites

Ofcom notes the following sites which are all still available in the UK without ID/age verification:

  • crazyporn.xxx
  • hoes.tube
  • love4porn.com.
  • justpornflix.com,
  • 4kporn.xxx

It seems likely that these fines will be simply ignored. A recent question in the House of Lords suggest that only one Ofcom fine has actually been paid so far.

Also the websites have been transferred from 8579 LLC to Reply Buzzer Ltd. Maybe this is somehow connected to the Ofcom censorship efforts.

Ofcom writes:

Ofcom has determined that 8579 LLC failed to comply with section 12 of the Act, and this failure is ongoing in relation to one of the services it operates. Section 12 imposes a duty on providers of Part 3 services that allow pornographic content, and that are likely to be accessed by children, to ensure that children are prevented from encountering pornographic content through the use of highly effective age assurance.

From 25 July 2025 until at least 19 November 2025, 8579 LLC failed to implement highly effective age assurance on its services crazyporn.xxx, hoes.tube, and love4porn.com. For justpornflix.com, this failure is ongoing.

The scope of our investigation originally also included the services 4kporn.xxx and 429.xxx. However, following a possible change in provider prior to Ofcom issuing its Provisional Decision 203 from 8579 LLC to Reply Buzzer Ltd - we have not made findings in relation to either site in our final decision.

We are imposing a penalty on 8579 LLC of £1,350,000 in respect of the contravention of section 12.

In addition, 8579 LLC is now required to comply with section 12 by taking steps to implement highly effective age assurance on justpornflix.com, of which it is still the provider, by 5pm GMT on 23 February 2026.

Should 8579 LLC fail to comply with this requirement, a daily rate penalty of £1,000 per day will be imposed starting from 23 February 2026 until the section 12 duty is complied with, or 3 June 2026, whichever is sooner.

Ofcom has also determined that 8579 LLC has failed to comply with section 102(8) of the Act by failing to respond to a statutory request for information, issued as part of the investigation, within the specified time frame. We are imposing a penalty on 8579 LLC of £50,000 in respect of the contravention of section 102(8).

In addition, 8579 LLC is now required to take immediate steps to provide Ofcom with a complete list of all sites operated by 8579 LLC.

Should 8579 LLC fail to comply with this requirement, a daily rate penalty of £250 per day will be imposed starting from 21 February 2026 until the section 102(8) duty is complied with or 22 April 2026, whichever is sooner.

 

See article from ofcom.org.uk

A little earlier Ofcom also notionally fined Kick Online Entertainment S.A a total of £830,000 for its motherless.com porn tube website. Ofcom writes:

From 25 July until 29 December 2025, Kick Online failed to implement highly effective age assurance on its service, motherless.com. After Ofcom issued a Provisional Decision to Kick Online, it implemented a method of age assurance that is capable of being highly effective.

We are imposing a penalty on Kick Online of £800,000 in respect of its contravention of section 12 (lack of ID/age verification). We are imposing a penalty on Kick Online of £30,000 in respect of the contravention of section 102(8) (failure to provide information demanded by Ofcom).

In addition, Kick Online is now required to take immediate steps to provide Ofcom with a complete list of all pornographic sites that it operates.

Should Kick Online fail to comply with this requirement, a daily rate penalty of £200 will be imposed starting from 12 February 2026 until the section 102(8) duty is complied with or 13 April 2026, whichever is sooner.

 

 

US plays St George in slaying European internet censorship dragons...

US State Department is developing a web portal to help Europeans to evade local internet censorship


Link Here 19th February 2026

The US State Department is developing an online portal that will allow users in Europe and other regions to view content banned by their governments. Three sources familiar with the plan told Reuters that Washington sees the initiative as a way to counter censorship.

The site will operate at freedom.gov, according to the sources. One of the sources said officials have discussed including a VPN (virtual private network) feature that would make user traffic appear to originate in the United States. The same source added that user activity on the site will not be tracked. The project is being led by Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers.

In a statement to Reuters, a State Department spokesman said the US government does not have a specific censorship circumvention program for Europe, but stressed that digital freedom is a priority for the State Department, and this includes the proliferation of privacy and censorship circumvention technologies like VPNs.

The Trump administration has placed freedom of expression at the center of its foreign policy, especially in cases where it assesses that conservative voices are being restricted online, including in Europe and Brazil.

EU censors regularly ask US-based platforms to remove content and, as a last resort, can impose bans. Platform X, owned by Trump ally Elon Musk, was fined 120 million euros in December for failing to comply with the rules.

In Germany, during 2024, authorities issued 482 removal orders for material they deemed to support or incite terrorism and forced providers to delete 16,771 pieces of content. Similarly, Metas supervisory board in 2024 ordered the removal of posts by a Polish political party that used racial slurs and portrayed immigrants as rapists, a category that EU law treats as illegal hate speech.


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