#contentblocking — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #contentblocking, aggregated by home.social.
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Engadget: Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies . “Cloudflare has announced plans to automatically block mixed-use web crawlers that index websites for search engines and act as AI agents and trainers at the same time. The company previously offered its customers the optional ability to prevent crawlers from scraping their sites for AI chatbots, but now Cloudflare’s […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/06/engadget-cloudflare-will-filter-out-web-crawlers-that-serve-ai-companies/ -
Engadget: Cloudflare will filter out web crawlers that serve AI companies . “Cloudflare has announced plans to automatically block mixed-use web crawlers that index websites for search engines and act as AI agents and trainers at the same time. The company previously offered its customers the optional ability to prevent crawlers from scraping their sites for AI chatbots, but now Cloudflare’s […]
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Your voice can disappear overnight, and no one is required to tell you why. ❌
A system of informal, decentralized censorship is emerging in India where the government can direct content removals without transparency or oversight.
SFLC.in has consistently emphasized that transparency must be central to content moderation and that user rights cannot be an afterthought.
Report violations at RightsLine, a free 24/7 helpline for digital rights violations.
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Your voice can disappear overnight, and no one is required to tell you why. ❌
A system of informal, decentralized censorship is emerging in India where the government can direct content removals without transparency or oversight.
SFLC.in has consistently emphasized that transparency must be central to content moderation and that user rights cannot be an afterthought.
Report violations at RightsLine, a free 24/7 helpline for digital rights violations.
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What remedies do users have when platforms wrongly restrict lawful speech?
On May 10, Instagram temporarily blocked posts by Rahul Gandhi. Although Instagram later restored the posts, the restriction reduced their reach and virality, directly affecting political speech.
As platforms increasingly depend on opaque automated systems, they must answer critical questions around transparency, accountability, and users’ rights.
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What remedies do users have when platforms wrongly restrict lawful speech?
On May 10, Instagram temporarily blocked posts by Rahul Gandhi. Although Instagram later restored the posts, the restriction reduced their reach and virality, directly affecting political speech.
As platforms increasingly depend on opaque automated systems, they must answer critical questions around transparency, accountability, and users’ rights.
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Meta Re-configures Content Controls Amid Shifting Political Winds
Meta now automatically blocks content from police and government. See how this affects information flow and user experience on Facebook and Instagram.
#MetaPolicy, #ContentBlocking, #GovernmentContent, #SocialMediaNews, #TechUpdate
https://newsletter.tf/meta-blocks-government-police-content-2026/
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Meta's new policy automatically blocks content referred by government and police, a change from its AI focus in March 2026. This impacts how official information is shared.
#MetaPolicy, #ContentBlocking, #GovernmentContent, #SocialMediaNews, #TechUpdate
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War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech—Again
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/war-pretext-gulf-states-are-tightening-screws-speech-again
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Digital Hopes, Real Power: From Revolution to Regulation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/digital-hopes-real-power-revolution-regulation
#CorporateSpeechControls #ContentBlocking #International #FreeSpeech #Commentary #BigTech
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EFF Joins Internet Advocates Calling on the Iranian Government to Restore Full Internet Connectivity
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TorrentFreak: Belgian Pirate Site Blocking Order Targets Cloudflare and Google, But Not Their DNS. “Belgium’s site-blocking machine keeps turning. A new order, obtained by local broadcasters RTL Belgium and RTBF, compels ISPs, Cloudflare, and Google to restrict access to five illegal IPTV services. Importantly, the latter two are not required to block content through their DNS resolvers, which […]
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TorrentFreak: Belgian Pirate Site Blocking Order Targets Cloudflare and Google, But Not Their DNS. “Belgium’s site-blocking machine keeps turning. A new order, obtained by local broadcasters RTL Belgium and RTBF, compels ISPs, Cloudflare, and Google to restrict access to five illegal IPTV services. Importantly, the latter two are not required to block content through their DNS resolvers, which […]
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EFF Joins Internet Advocates Calling on the Iranian Government to Restore Full Internet Connectivity
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Our recent blog examines how these measures operated in practice, looking at the legal framework under the IT Act, the role of platform geo-blocking, and the use of executive advisories and criminal law during crisis situations.
Read here: https://sflc.in/content-blocking-and-censorship-during-pahalgam-attack/ #ContentBlocking #DigitalGovernance #InternetRegulation #Section69A #PlatformGovernance #FreedomOfExpression #MediaFreedom 13m
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Our recent blog examines how these measures operated in practice, looking at the legal framework under the IT Act, the role of platform geo-blocking, and the use of executive advisories and criminal law during crisis situations.
Read here: https://sflc.in/content-blocking-and-censorship-during-pahalgam-attack/ #ContentBlocking #DigitalGovernance #InternetRegulation #Section69A #PlatformGovernance #FreedomOfExpression #MediaFreedom 13m
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TorrentFreak: Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Digital Trade Barriers. “In a submission for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report, Cloudflare warns the U.S. government that site blocking efforts cause widespread disruption to legitimate services. The complaint points to Italy’s automated Piracy Shield system, which reportedly blocked ‘tens of thousands’ of […]
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TorrentFreak: Cloudflare Tells U.S. Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Digital Trade Barriers. “In a submission for the 2026 National Trade Estimate Report, Cloudflare warns the U.S. government that site blocking efforts cause widespread disruption to legitimate services. The complaint points to Italy’s automated Piracy Shield system, which reportedly blocked ‘tens of thousands’ of […]
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Moscow Times: Russia Blocks World’s Largest Anime and Manga Database Over LGBTQ+ Content . “Russian authorities have banned the world’s largest anime and manga platform MyAnimeList over ‘extremist’ LGBTQ+ content, state media reported Tuesday. Federal media watchdog Roskomnadzor placed MyAnimeList into its national blacklist of sites banned in Russia last Wednesday without citing a formal […]
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TorrentFreak: German Pirate Site Blockades Target Anna’s Archive, FitGirl and RPG Only. “Germany’s voluntary pirate site blocking scheme was overhauled this year, adding proper judicial oversight. In recent weeks, the first court orders were signed, resulting in blockades of shadow library Anna’s Archive and gaming portal RPG Only.”
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TorrentFreak: German Pirate Site Blockades Target Anna’s Archive, FitGirl and RPG Only. “Germany’s voluntary pirate site blocking scheme was overhauled this year, adding proper judicial oversight. In recent weeks, the first court orders were signed, resulting in blockades of shadow library Anna’s Archive and gaming portal RPG Only.”
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TorrentFreak: Why a Court Order to Block Internet Archive’s Open Library Was Put On Hold. “Site-blocking orders are usually binary; a court issues an order for a domain to be blocked, or it does not. In Belgium, things work differently. After we reported on a court order that compelled ISPs to block access to the Internet Archive’s Open Library, a follow-up implementation order decided […]
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TorrentFreak: DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently. “Pirate site blocking orders issued against DNS resolvers including OpenDNS, Google, and Cloudflare are stacking up in Europe. Since similar demands may eventually surface in other countries, including the U.S., we take a look at how these companies respond to blocking orders. Our research reveals […]
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TorrentFreak: DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently. “Pirate site blocking orders issued against DNS resolvers including OpenDNS, Google, and Cloudflare are stacking up in Europe. Since similar demands may eventually surface in other countries, including the U.S., we take a look at how these companies respond to blocking orders. Our research reveals […]
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Marijke Luttekes: Blocking domains on Mastodon without visiting a profile. “If you want to block a domain on the Fediverse, you must do that from the profile page of an account on that server. I find that silly, and so did other folks on my timeline. So what if you do not want to find an account on a server? The answer lies in your account preferences: Mastodon’s Import function. In this […]
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Texas’s War on Abortion Is Now a War on Free Speech
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/texass-war-abortion-now-war-free-speech
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For those of you using recently releases of Google Chrome then uBlock continues to be available as uBlock Origin Lite for your content blocking and security enhancing needs 😊
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh
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For those of you using recently releases of Google Chrome then uBlock continues to be available as uBlock Origin Lite for your content blocking and security enhancing needs 😊
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh
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Unseen Japan: As Celebrity Online Casino Scandals Mount, Japan Considers Blocking Sites Entirely. “One huge risk with online casinos as opposed to in-country gambling is that you have no idea who’s running a given site and whether it’s fair or a scam. Indeed, some reports indicate the popularity of online gambling sites has already attracted state actors. South Korea’s National […]
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Munk.org: 24 Hours with Pi-Hole, the Digital Bouncer at the Gate. “Over the past day, devices, computers and phones attached to my network made some 86,000 DNS queries to translate domain names for outside domains into IP addresses that are the actual address the Internet uses to route requests. That’s a *LOT*. The second surprise was to find that over a THIRD of those requests were for […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/24/munk-org-24-hours-with-pi-hole-the-digital-bouncer-at-the-gate/
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Stop Censoring Abortion: The Fight for Reproductive Rights in the Digital Age
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/stop-censoring-abortion-fight-reproductive-rights-digital-age
#ReproductiveJustice #ContentBlocking #FreeSpeech #BigTech #Privacy
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Ars Technica: X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages. “X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, is seemingly blocking links to Signal, the encrypted messaging platform, according to journalist Matt Binder and other firsthand accounts.”
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Gizmodo: Online Censorship In Schools Is ‘More Pervasive’ Than Expected, New Data Shows. “Virtually all schools use some type of web filter to comply with the Children’s Internet Protection Act, which requires districts taking advantage of the federal E-rate program for discounted internet and telecommunications equipment to keep kids from seeing graphic and obscene images online. A […]
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Gizmodo: Online Censorship In Schools Is ‘More Pervasive’ Than Expected, New Data Shows. “Virtually all schools use some type of web filter to comply with the Children’s Internet Protection Act, which requires districts taking advantage of the federal E-rate program for discounted internet and telecommunications equipment to keep kids from seeing graphic and obscene images online. A […]
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Techdirt: Twitter Briefly Blocked The NY Post, Elon Cried Foul. Now He’s Doing Far Worse. “When Elon Musk took over Twitter, one of his primary stated goals was to ‘bring back free speech’ to the platform. He was particularly critical of how Twitter had briefly blocked links to a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020. But now, the self-proclaimed ‘free speech absolutist’ […]
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Techdirt: Twitter Briefly Blocked The NY Post, Elon Cried Foul. Now He’s Doing Far Worse. “When Elon Musk took over Twitter, one of his primary stated goals was to ‘bring back free speech’ to the platform. He was particularly critical of how Twitter had briefly blocked links to a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020. But now, the self-proclaimed ‘free speech absolutist’ […]
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So, I am a substitute teacher in a couple of school districts. I mostly sub for high school teachers and as such I have a lot of free time on my hands. For example this week I am subbing for an English teacher. In most of my classes this week I am showing a movie (same 45 minutes over and over) and "supervising" the yearbook staff.
So, I bring my laptop with me to not go crazy. The schools all have a public wifi, which is additional to the locked wifi networks for students and staff, which normally I don't have access to.
To amuse myself (and hopefully you) here are some things that are blocked and allowed on the public wifi.
Facebook, TikTok, Xhitter and the like are blocked. Kids don't care, they all have phones. However, in general, Mastodon is not blocked. Most Pixelfed instances are blocked, but most Friendica instances are not. PeerTube instances are generally blocked. YouTube is available, but individual videos are blocked with no rhyme or reason. I have had many Linux instructional screencast videos blocked here.
Google maps is fine, but OpenStreetMap(!) is blocked. Can't figure that one out!
More later...
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#ContentBlocking #Fediverse #PeerTube #Pixelfed #Friendica #OpenSource #FOSS
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So, I am a substitute teacher in a couple of school districts. I mostly sub for high school teachers and as such I have a lot of free time on my hands. For example this week I am subbing for an English teacher. In most of my classes this week I am showing a movie (same 45 minutes over and over) and "supervising" the yearbook staff.
So, I bring my laptop with me to not go crazy. The schools all have a public wifi, which is additional to the locked wifi networks for students and staff, which normally I don't have access to.
To amuse myself (and hopefully you) here are some things that are blocked and allowed on the public wifi.
Facebook, TikTok, Xhitter and the like are blocked. Kids don't care, they all have phones. However, in general, Mastodon is not blocked. Most Pixelfed instances are blocked, but most Friendica instances are not. PeerTube instances are generally blocked. YouTube is available, but individual videos are blocked with no rhyme or reason. I have had many Linux instructional screencast videos blocked here.
Google maps is fine, but OpenStreetMap(!) is blocked. Can't figure that one out!
More later...
1/many
#ContentBlocking #Fediverse #PeerTube #Pixelfed #Friendica #OpenSource #FOSS
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The X Corp. Shutdown in Brazil: What We Can Learn
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/x-corp-shutdown-brazil-what-we-can-learn
#GovernmentSocialMediaBlocking #ContentBlocking #International #FreeSpeech
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Canada’s Leaders Must Reject Overbroad Age Verification Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/canadas-leaders-must-reject-overbroad-age-verification-bill
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Canada’s Leaders Must Reject Overbroad Age Verification Bill
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/canadas-leaders-must-reject-overbroad-age-verification-bill
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EFF and Partners to EU Commissioner: Prioritize User Rights, Avoid Politicized Enforcement of DSA Rules
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In These Five Social Media Speech Cases, Supreme Court Set Foundational Rules for the Future
#GovernmentSocialMediaBlocking #CorporateSpeechControls #ContentBlocking #FreeSpeech
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Victory! D.C. Circuit Rules in Favor of Animal Rights Activists Censored on Government Social Media Pages
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To Sixth Circuit: Government Officials Should Not Have Free Rein to Block Critics on Their Social Media Accounts When Used For Governmental Purposes
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Another video of @thejuicemedia has been blocked by @YouTube on its platform in India. This is the second video of the YT channel, titled "Honest Government Ad | the State of Democracy" which is blocked within this month.
According to the notice sent to the channel, #YouTube has been asked to block it in India by a request received through a government agency.
Send us an email at [email protected] or mention @sflcin on social media platforms To report any blocking cases .
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@YouTube has blocked a video on its platform.
According to notice, @thejuicemedia's YouTube channel, the video titled "Honest Government Ad | India" violates sections 153, 504, and 505 of the #IPC and Section 2 of the Prevention of Insults to the #NationalHonourAct, 1971. The MHA, issued the blocking order.
Please report any blocking cases you may have seen to us.
Send us an email at [email protected] or mention @sflcin on social media platforms.
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The Election Commission of India has directed X to take down @BJP4Karnataka's post. However, the post is still available on the platform.
SFLC.in has been reporting on the blocking of social media accounts and websites. Please report any blocking cases you may have seen to us.
Send us an email at [email protected] or mention SFLC.in on social media platforms to report a block.
#SFLCin #ElectionCommissionOfIndia #Elections2024 #GeneralElectionNow #LokSabhaElections2024
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X has #blocked accounts of @NavCom24 and @iScrew on its platform in India.
SFLC.in has been reporting on the blocking of social media accounts and websites. Please report any blocking cases you may have seen to us.
Send us an email at [email protected] or mention @sflcin.
#SFLCin #FreeSpeechMatters #India #FreedomOfSpeech #DigitalRights #WordsOnTrial #Blocking #Ban #Suspended #Withheld #X
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@sflcin has been reporting on the blocking of content, social media accounts, and websites. Please report any blocking cases you may have seen to us.
Send us an email at [email protected] or mention @sflcin
#SFLCin #pressfreedom #FreedomOfSpeech #FreeSpeech #freespeechmatters #press #journalism #Blocking #ContentBlocking #Elections2024 #facebook #meta #google
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@YouTube released its October - December 2023 transparency report, as mandated by Rule 4(1)(d) of IT Rules 2021. The report noted that India topped the list of video takedowns, with a staggering 2.25 million videos removed during the period.
Read the report here: https://transparencyreport.google.com/youtube-policy/removals?hl=en
SFLC.in has been reporting on the blocking of content, accounts and websites. Please report any blocking cases you may have seen to us.
Send us an email at [email protected] or mention @sflcin
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Following the orders from the Indian government, YouTube India has removed the three video reports on the death of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Following the government's demand for a legal removal on the same issue, X also disabled tweets.
@sflcin has been reporting on the blocking of social media accounts and websites. Please report any blocking cases you may have seen to us.
Send us an email at [email protected] or mention @sflcin
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#ContentBlocking #X #TakenDown #farmersprotest
X has removed certain #farmersprotest-related accounts through orders of content-blocking. #News related to farmer protests was continuously updated on these accounts. The X accounts that have been removed are listed here.
@Tractor2twitr_P
@FarmersFront
@gaonsavera
@mandeeppunia1
@PunYaab
@ramanmann1974
@PandherSarvan
@bkuSbs
@ashokdanoda#WordsOnTrial #Blocking #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #SFLC
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In my opinion, this is a good compromise.
What do you think?https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/2895#discussioncomment-7348103
#uBlockOrigin #trustedscriptlets #contentblocking #filterlistupdate
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DandelionSprout is trying to revive the seeming abandoned Latvian List.
#filterlistupdate #LatvianList #contentblocking #contentfiltering
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EFFDeeplinks: EFF to D.C. Circuit: Animal Rights Activists Shouldn’t Be Censored on Government Social Media Pages Because Agency Disagrees With Their Viewpoint https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/eff-dc-circuit-animal-rights-activists-shouldnt-be-censored-government-social #GovernmentSocialMediaBlocking #ContentBlocking #FreeSpeech
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EFFDeeplinks: ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it #ContentBlocking #Commentary
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EFFDeeplinks: ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it #ContentBlocking #Commentary
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EFFDeeplinks: ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it #ContentBlocking #Commentary