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Covering protests is a dangerous job for journalists

Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Published on 12/19/2025

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 268 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and journalist Ya’akub Vijandre remains locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over social media posts...

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Speaking Freely: Sami Ben Gharbia

by Jillian C. York
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 12/19/2025

Interviewer: Jillian York Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate. He founded Global Voices Advocacy, and is the co-founder and current publisher of the collective media organization...

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Online Gaming’s Final Boss: The Copyright Bully

by Corynne McSherry, Kit Walsh
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 12/19/2025

Since earliest days of computer games, people have tinkered with the software to customize their own experiences or share their vision with others. From the dad who changed the game’s male protagonist to a girl so his daughter could see herself in it...

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Fair Use is a Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.

by Mitch Stoltz
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 12/18/2025

Fair use is not just an excuse to copy—it’s a pillar of online speech protection, and disregarding it in order to lash out at a critic should have serious consequences. That’s what we told a federal court in Channel 781 News v. Waltham Community Acce...

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How British state secrecy just got worse

Grainne Teggart
Declassified UK
Published on 12/18/2025

In 1994, Paul Thompson, a 25-year-old Catholic was shot dead in a taxi by a loyalist (pro-British) gang in Belfast. Three decades later, his family is still trying to uncover the truth about whether the British state colluded in his murder. As part...

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Stand Together to Protect Democracy

by Christian Romero
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 12/18/2025

What a year it’s been. We’ve seen technology unfortunately misused to supercharge the threats facing democracy: dystopian surveillance, attacks on encryption, and government censorship. These aren’t abstract dangers. They’re happening now, to real pe...

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