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How the U.K.'s war on speech threatens the free internet

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European regulators and NGOs are pushing their domestic speech laws and surveillance onto the American internet. But there's a way to fight back. reason.com --- The war against anonymity is raging in Europe. "The witch hunters work like a mob, and if enough of them phone the police, the police are going to come," says Bernie Spofforth, a political activist who was detained by U.K. police for a social media post. It's coming to the United States, thanks in part to lobbying by "a massive network of NGOs" connected to the U.K. government, says Brian Chau, founder of a new AI-driven investigative…

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