Censorship

Big tech censorship, deplatforming, and free speech in the digital age

Topic filters

less than a minute ago

Latest News

17 stories

Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling To Fix Them Fast Enough.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On a...

Techdirt•about 4 hours ago

Trump’s War On Journalists Also Includes Targeting A Freelance NYT Contributor

Donald Trump took possession of a $400 million “gift” plane from the Qatari government earlier this...

Techdirt•about 6 hours ago

‘A Turning Point for Our Nation’: How Abdul El-Sayed Won

In Michigan this week, Olivia Reingold saw the future of the Democratic Party. It is angry, energize...

The Free Press•about 7 hours ago

Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can’t Violate Hacking Law. But You Might.

The rise of AI is bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than man...

Techdirt•about 8 hours ago

Daily Deal: The Ultimate Python & Artificial Intelligence Bundle

The Ultimate Python and Artificial Intelligence Bundle has 9 courses to help you take your Python an...

Techdirt•about 8 hours ago

Trump’s Mass Detention Policy Shut Down By Two Appeals Courts On The Same Day

The Trump administration has been shut down more than 10,000 times by federal courts over its novel...

Techdirt•about 10 hours ago

Abdul El-Sayed’s Victory and the Democrats’ Anti-American Turn

In 2008, Obama had to renounce his association with an anti-American preacher to win his party’s nom...

The Free Press•about 12 hours ago

Meta Backs Off Sloppy Gambit To Nickel-And-Dime AI Glasses Customers

Last month we reported how Meta had decided to try and sloppily nickel-and-dime its AI glasses custo...

Techdirt•about 14 hours ago

It’s Embarrassing It Took This Chinese Grad Student To Ask Christopher Nolan Hard Questions About “The Odyssey”

Yiyang Zhuge’s interview forced the Hollywood director to admit he changed the meaning to satisfy po...

Public•about 14 hours ago

How Well Does the Senate’s Age Verification Bill Protect Anonymity?

SUMMARY The Digital Age Assurance Act of 2026 (S. 5090), introduced July 22 by Sens. Andy Kim, Cynth...

Foundation for Freedom Online•about 15 hours ago

The Democrats Who Know How to Win. Plus. . .

Evan Barker on Abdul El-Sayed. The Cambridge University fabulist. Arthur Brooks asks: Is socialism a...

The Free Press•about 16 hours ago

Roy Cooper, Sherrod Brown, and the Road to Democratic Victory

While radical left newcomers like Abdul El-Sayed get the media attention, veteran candidates like Ro...

The Free Press•about 22 hours ago

Who Had to Lose for Jason Arday to Win?

A scandal over a Cambridge academic shows that many universities still act like we’re living in 2020...

The Free Press•about 22 hours ago

RFK Jr. Just Embarrassed Himself Publicly On CNN

This post is going to come with something of a warning label. RFK Jr. went on CNN this past weekend...

Techdirt•about 23 hours ago

Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction

The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills:...

Electronic Frontier Foundation•1 day ago

Using Trust & Safety Tycoon In The Classroom

Early in the media law and ethics course I teach, as I shift gears from the ethics section to the la...

Techdirt•1 day ago

Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has endorsed a commonsense technical interpretation of the Comput...

Electronic Frontier Foundation•1 day ago

Explore All Topics

Jump to a topic to filter the feed

About Alto Censorship & Free Speech

Alto Censorship tracks deplatforming, shadow banning, content moderation, and Big Tech speech policies alongside government censorship efforts and free-speech litigation — essential reading for anyone who cares about open discourse online. Alto is built on the free-speech internet, and these are the stories closest to that mission.

The desk covers the full arc of the online-speech fight: platform moderation-policy changes, account suspensions and reinstatements, whistleblower disclosures about how moderation decisions get made, and the pressure governments put on platforms to remove or throttle content. It also follows the legal and legislative battles — First Amendment litigation, Section 230 reform, and the state and federal proposals that would reshape what can be said online.

Headlines are aggregated from free-speech advocates, technology reporters, and mainstream press, each linking to the original report, with Alto's AI analysis on many stories to explain the stakes. Use the topic filters for deplatforming, Big Tech, Section 230, or government speech regulation.

For the business side of the platforms, cross-link to Alto Tech; for the legislative fights, see Alto Politics; and follow the Big Tech Censorship topic hub for the latest developments. Every story links back to its source. Headlines refresh throughout the day.