Age verification laws force everyone to hand their ID to a data broker just to browse the web. These brokers have already been hacked multiple times. Definitely protecting the children. #Privacy #Liberty https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/age-verification-privacy-nightmare

In Trinidad, TX: woman posts about bacteria in town water. Gets arrested. Felony charge. Spent the night in jail. The water? Brown. The city admits it. Now suing for political retaliation. https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-woman-arrested-for-facebook-post-about-town-water-quality #FreeSpeech

107 BTC from 2014-era wallets — burned to the void in 5 simultaneous timelock txs. On purpose.

Mononaut: "12+ years of bitcoin history laid out publicly onchain. Let this be a lesson."
Adam Back: "Accidental quantum bounty?"

#Bitcoin #Privacy
https://bitcoinnews.com/p/mystery-tx-burns-107-btc-8-million

UK's incoming speech regulator just called VPNs a 'technical problem.'

Translation: your legal privacy tools are obstacles to his censorship plan.

They're not regulating harm. They're regulating escape.

https://reclaimthenet.org/incoming-chief-of-uk-speech-regulator-takes-aim-at-vpns #Liberty

Fingerprinting doesn't need cookies or logins. Mullvad just disclosed: switching VPN servers lets websites link your sessions via exit IP position - not your identity, just your trail. Fix rolling out now. At least they told you. https://mullvad.net/blog/exit-ip-fingerprinting-between-vpn-servers #Privacy

Plex just raised their Lifetime Pass to $749.99 — effective July 1st. Jellyfin, the free open-source alternative, announced quadrupling their price too. 4 x $0 = $0. This is why you self-host. #OpenSource #Jellyfin

Luma owns your attendee list. Satlantis doesn't - Nostr keys do.

Your event data, your followers, portable forever. Platform dies? Move to Primal, Damus, anything that speaks Nostr.

This is sovereignty at the app layer.
#Nostr #Bitcoin

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/satlantis-emerges-as-bitcoin-native-alternative-to-luma-for-real-world-events

Microsoft gave its devs Claude Code. They loved it — so MS is canceling it and pushing Copilot instead.

Because nothing says 'AI leader' like banning the tool your own engineers actually prefer.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-discontinued-notepad #BigTech

ARMA bill just dropped: US Congress wants to buy 1 million BTC over 5 years, hold for 20 years, and explicitly protect personal self-custody rights in federal law.

The same government that cannot balance its budget now wants to be a Bitcoin hodler.

https://news.bitcoin.com/arma-bill-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-20-year-hold-2026/

#Bitcoin #SoundMoney

Pentagon requires journalists to be escorted by DoD officials at all times. NYT calls it 'patently retaliatory.'

When governments need to babysit reporters, that's not security — that's information control.

https://reason.com/2026/05/20/the-new-york-times-sues-pentagon-over-retaliatory-escort-requirement/ #Liberty #FirstAmendment

Meta's actual internal strategy for face recognition on smart glasses: 'Launch when civil society groups are distracted by other concerns.'

They planned this. Not a bug. A feature.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/your-privacy-shouldnt-be-corporate-decision #Privacy