Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Mexico: Proposed Law Criminalizing Memes
October 5th, 2025pic.twitter.com/SUNnCFn0Vj — SkoolTeecher (@skoolteecher1) October 5, 2025 Via: The Yucatan Times: In a move stirring national debate, Mexico’s ruling party Morena has introduced the so-called “Anti-Sticker” Law, a legislative initiative aimed at penalizing the creation and dissemination of memes, stickers, and deepfakes that ridicule public figures—particularly politicians—on social media.
Pam Bondi’s “Hate Speech” Disaster
September 18th, 2025That moment when the U.S. Attorney General channeled a pink haired community standards manager on Facebook circa 2021… Via: UPI: Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday backpedaled her comments about using law enforcement to target groups engaged in “hate speech” after she faced broad criticism. Bondi made the offending comments during an earlier appearance on […]
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke Passports of U.S. Citizens
September 14th, 2025In other news… pic.twitter.com/vdb0rNhw8V — cryptogon (@cryptogon) September 15, 2025 Via: The Intercept: In March, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stripped Turkish doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk’s of her visa based on what a court later found was nothing more than her opinion piece critical of Israel. Now, a bill introduced by the chair of the […]
“When Did Britain Become North Korea?”
September 3rd, 2025Via: Daily Mail: Police were accused of a ‘totalitarian’ clampdown on free speech after the creator of Father Ted was arrested by armed officers over online comments about transgender activists. Fury erupted at the Metropolitan Police’s treatment of TV writer Graham Linehan, who told how he was dealt with ‘like a terrorist’, held in a […]
Gates Foundation: “Digital IDs Are an Effective Tool Against Poverty”
September 2nd, 2025Tell us another one, Bill. Via: Off-Guardian: It looks like we can add another to the growing mountain of problems that digital IDs are going to solve for all of us. We already know that digital IDs will help counter populism, and illegal immigration, and crime, and benefit fraud, and terrorism, and pandemics. But they’ll […]
Mass Vehicle Surveillance in the U.S.
September 1st, 2025Via: Benn Jordan:
Huntington Beach, California: First Responder Police Drones Launch from Rooftops Around City
August 13th, 2025Via: Los Angeles Times: The Huntington Beach Police Department typically takes about five minutes to get to a crime scene or emergency situation. Drones will soon cut that time to two minutes or less. The department is expected to launch its Drone as First Responder program on Sept. 13, officials said during a news conference […]
UK Expands Police Facial Recognition Rollout
August 13th, 2025Via: The Register: A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters’ access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as “an excellent opportunity for policing.” Privacy campaigners disagree. The Home Office said today that more police forces across England will gain LFR capabilities thanks to ten new “cutting edge” vans being wheeled out, […]
EU Media Freedom Law Allows for Journalist Arrests if Justified by ‘Public Interest’
August 9th, 2025Via: disclose.tv: The European Media Freedom Act is now in effect across all EU member states. This legislation aims to protect press freedom and the confidentiality of sources. However, Article 3 (b) and 4 (c) of the act allow for journalist arrests if justified by a compelling “public interest” on a case-by-case basis. “Member States […]
New Zealand to Charge Drivers of All Vehicles by Distance Driven
August 6th, 2025They are not saying precisely how this will be enforced, but my guess is that some sort of black box with GPS tracking will be required to be added to most vehicles. Via: Radio New Zealand: “We’re not going to shift millions of drivers from a simple system at the pump to queues at retailers. […]
