Policy & Legislation

A recommendation feed is not trying to entertain you. It is trying to keep you watching, and it drifts towards whatever version of you is easiest to hold on to.

On 12 June 2026 the US ordered Anthropic to cut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national. The sovereignty risk we kept calling theoretical just happened.

We demand systems that never lose data, load instantly, and obey every law. Deletion fails not because companies are evil, but because we asked the impossible.

I am not against all surveillance; CCTV recording crimes provides accountability. What I oppose is mass tracking, profiling, and systems that judge us blindly.

VPNs solve real problems, but needing them signals deeper failures. We use them to patch insecure networks, surveillance capitalism, and artificial access barriers.

The EU Chat Control proposal scans everyone's private messages before sending, shifting from targeted investigation to pre-emptive monitoring of all citizens.

Digitalisation turns public records from manual lookups into mass extraction, exposing your name, address, and finances to anyone willing to query them.

Twenty years of digital convenience built detailed profiles of our health, finances, and relationships, then sold them to advertisers and governments on request.