Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring—and Threaten the Open Internet
A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of…
Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK
Microsoft is implementing an age verification system on Xbox accounts to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, and in a new blog post announcing the move, the company suggests…
Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
Spotify is requiring users in the UK to verify they’re over 18 to view "certain age restricted content," and users are reporting seeing a popup on Spotify to verify their…
Just Forget It
John Kelsey’s injured romanticism
Neil Young’s iPod Killer
A rock icon sets out to save music with a strange yellow gadget that almost no one understood.
Google, labor rights, monopoly,
and the justice department
cory doctorow on tech laws and tariffs
on Democracy Now
Too Bad About the Internet (with Anil Dash)
Where did the Internet go wrong, and how do we fix it? To find out more, we talk to entrepreneur and activist Anil Dash about the alternate history of technology.…
Getting off US tech is no easy task
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make the effort
Bell Telephone Magazine Spring 1966
I've become a little obsessed with this Bell Telephone Magazine from the spring of 1966 that I accidentally stumbled upon when I was looking for pictures of telephone lines on…