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Online speech & platform duty

Statutes and enforcement first — Canada’s Online Harms / Safe Social Media successors, the UK Online Safety Act, the EU DSA, platform hate codes, and where journalist accreditation fights sit beside content-regulation law.

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Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee — illustrative for the Eleventh Circuit (covers Florida, Georgia and Alabama); not the Atlanta federal courthouse — Photo: public domain / site archive

Accountability|United States

11th Circuit vacates injunction blocking Georgia’s social-media age-verification law

In NetChoice v. Attorney General of Georgia (No. 25-12436, filed 15 October 2026), a three-judge panel held that NetChoice failed its facial First Amendment burden under Moody, and failed on vagueness and § 230 preemption. The panel vacated the Northern District of Georgia’s preliminary injunction against SB 351 and remanded. The law’s age checks, parental consent under 16, and minor-ad targeting limits can be enforced while the case continues.

Daily Teabag Desk·October 16, 2026Centre

Palace of Westminster, London — Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5

Accountability|European Union

Meta takes Ofcom’s Category 1 Instagram/WhatsApp labels to the Upper Tribunal

In mid-September 2026 Meta served an appeal against Ofcom’s Category 1 designation of Instagram and WhatsApp under the UK Online Safety Act — joining a wave of platform challenges Ofcom told Lords peers it faces in a “highly litigious environment.”

Daily Teabag Desk·September 22, 2026Slight right

Centre Block, Parliament Hill, Ottawa — Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0

Policy Watch|Canada

C-63 died on the Order Paper — Bill C-34 is Canada’s new online-safety vehicle

Bill C-63’s Online Harms package died with the last Parliament. Bill C-34 (Safe Social Media Act) got first reading on 10 June 2026 — a Digital Safety Act and Commission, not a re-enacted hate-tribunal clone until the text says so.

Daily Teabag Desk·September 21, 2026Slight right

Berlaymont building, European Commission, Brussels — Photo: EmDee, CC BY-SA 4.0

Accountability|European Union

Europe’s first DSA fine: €120 million on X — and Meta’s preliminary breaches stack up

On 5 December 2025 the European Commission issued the first Digital Services Act non-compliance fine: €120 million on X for blue-check, ad-repository, and researcher-access breaches. Meta and TikTok face preliminary findings — not yet final fines.

Daily Teabag Desk·September 21, 2026Centre

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California State Capitol, Sacramento — Photo: Alex Proimos, CC BY 2.0

Accountability|United States

Encinitas settles: $175,000 and parental notice after gender-identity buddy lesson

A Southern District of California order dated 14 September 2026 approved a $175,000 settlement in S.E. v. Grey, vacated the May 2025 preliminary injunction, and dismissed the case with prejudice — after Encinitas Union School District had already rewritten notice-and-opt-out rules in the shadow of Mahmoud v. Taylor.

Daily Teabag Desk·September 22, 2026Slight right

Accountability|United States

The “Stop Nick Shirley Act” heads to federal court

California’s new immigration-worker privacy law was written after a viral fraud hunter showed up. FIRE warned it chills speech. Shirley’s lawyers say that’s the point.

James Ortega·September 21, 2026Lean right

Moharimet Elementary School exterior, Madbury, New Hampshire — Photo: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 4.0

Accountability|United States

Silent wristbands, loud precedent: appeals court backs Bow parents

New Hampshire officials called pink “XX” bands “hateful.” The First Circuit called punishing them viewpoint discrimination — and sent the case back.

Elena Vogt·September 21, 2026Lean right

Accountability|Canada

Canada’s two-tier press: How independents fight for the right to ask questions

Accreditation fights, subsidy asymmetry, platform rules, and libel pressure shape who gets heard — then a verified directory of independent Canadian outlets and reporters with working links.

Elena Vogt·September 21, 2026Slight right

Alberta Legislature Building, Edmonton — Photo: WinterforceMedia, public domain

Accountability|Canada

Westlock flyer, Section 3 tribunal: Alberta’s speech fight goes provincial

Benita Pedersen faces days of AHRC hearings over a 2023 flyer opposing a rainbow crosswalk. JCCF is defending; Rebel News is pushing a Scrap Section 3 campaign with a Hwy 2 billboard and a UCP convention petition.

Elena Vogt·September 21, 2026Lean right