Freedom Fest UK

freedomfest.now Freedom Fest 2026 Agenda — Screening, Talks & Workshops The Freedom Fest 2026 agenda: Thursday's screening plus a Saturday of privacy, digital rights and freedom technology talks, panels and workshops in Manchester.

Nathan Day @nathan_day · 3d

Absolute scenes over on the @Bitfestuk and @FreedomFest_UK schedule 👀

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freedomfest.now Freedom Fest 2026 — Privacy Is Freedom. 21 November · Pendulum Hotel, Manchester. Privacy, digital rights, civil liberties and freedom tech — talks, workshops and the people building alternatives.

Reclaim The Net Verified account @ReclaimTheNetHQ · Nov 2

UK speech regulator Ofcom asked Meta, WhatsApp, X and TikTok for ongoing data on what people in Britain post, who sees it, how much gets taken down, and how fast, all broken down by age.

The companies asked why. The UK High Court has now ruled that Ofcom doesn’t have to say. The platforms, on the other hand, had to prove in detail that complying would be a burden. X said it would cost millions of pounds and hundreds of hours of work. The court said that wasn’t detailed enough.

Data sorted by age requires the platforms to know every user’s age, and a regulator that can demand it on a whim is laying the groundwork for digital ID one request at a time.

reclaimthenet.org/uk-high-court-…

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