Category «Censorship»

Donald Trump’s War on Free Speech & the Need for Systemic Resistance

Free Press: “We took the freedom of speech away.” President Trump in opening remarks at his “antifa roundtable” (October 2025) Download the Report  Key Findings  Timeline of Attacks “This Free Press report examines the Trump administration’s hostile relationship with dissent and free expression in 2025. It analyzes how President Trump and his political enablers have …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now

Follow up to DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ – with eight months left on its charter, via Wired, see DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now [no paywall] -“…On Instagram, Yat Choi described his work as ongoing, announcing that he was returning to the underground Pennsylvania mine where federal retirement claims are processed. “Like …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns

LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 5 – The fifth in a series of articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting what government resources, data and datasets been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access and significantly …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment

Center for Economic Policy Research: The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment, 2nd Edition 315 pages. See John Coates [Harvard Law School] chapter, The Rule of Law, begins on page 33 and includes an addendum on rule of law developments from April to September, starting at page 46. …At the President’s direction, …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Courts, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

Forbes – “Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private. As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Confirmed Data Terminations and Removals

Confirmed Data Terminations and Removals Known as Dearly Departed Datasets for Halloween 2025 – Last updated 12/1/2025 – This page memorializes the federal datasets and variables, as well as select data tools, that have been terminated or removed in 2025. This list does not include routine changes and terminations of datasets, but rather strives to …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge

Popular Information: “One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters. Hargett suggested that libraries that made such books available to children were violating federal and state law. Some libraries have closed for days …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Legal Research, Libraries

Why you shouldn’t count on humans to prevent AI hiring bias

No Thoughts Just AI: Biased LLM Hiring Recommendations Alter Human Decision Making and Limit Human Autonomy. Kyra Wilson, Mattea Sim, Anna-Maria Gueorguieva1, Aylin Caliskan. Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES2025): “Despite bias in artificial intelligence (AI) being a risk of their use in hiring systems, there is no large-scale …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Economy, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Epstein Files Search

Follow up to post – We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate – See also the new Epstein Files Search – powered by Justice for All Victims: Search Tags for Files, Images, People, Organizations, Countries. See also via Journalist Studio – Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found. You …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

DOGE ‘doesn’t exist’ – with eight months left on its charter

Follow up to The DOGE Has Arrived and The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers – see Reuters: “President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size but which …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Government, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s libraries

ALA Library Technology Guides – [November 21, 2025] the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The decision was issued in response to a lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of 21 states. ALA President Sam Helmick …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, Education, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Privacy, Social Media