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Preston Byrne

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The JAWBONE Act: A “Sword” Like The GRANITE Act, Pointed At Our Own Government

Report: The Case for Using Section 301 to Retaliate Against Discriminatory EU Policies

Discussing the Rumored UK Social Media Ban on CapX

“Social Media Is As Dangerous As Smoking” is a Psyop

Under Secretary Rogers Hints (Again) At Imminent U.S. Federal GRANITE/Foreign Censorship Shield Bill

Ofcom Snatches Defeat From the Jaws of Victory on the SaSu Case; Pivots After Big Tech

Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls For Its Complete Repeal

Thoughts on the £1,000,000 SaSu Fine

Congress must introduce a federal GRANITE Act

Meta Challenges UK Ofcom’s Speech Taxes

If the EU Built Claude

The Censorship-Industrial Complex Is About to Get Defunded: A Section-by-Section Analysis of H.R. 8595’s Anti-Censorship Provisions

U.S. Foreign Censorship Shield Law Tracker

H.R.8595, State Department Appropriations Bill, Proposes to Prohibit U.S. Govt. Funding of Foreign Censorship

On the Peter McCormack Show talking about defending U.S. free speech from the U.K.

On the Free Speech Union’s Podcast with Lord Young talking about the Freedom of Speech Bill

A Free Speech Act for Britain

Early feedback from lawyers on the Adam Smith Institute’s UK Free Speech Act

On the So to Speak podcast with Nico Perrino

“I never thought the lion would eat MY face!”

Coming Soon

The Diet GRANITE Act

BREAKING: Wyoming GRANITE Act PASSES in the Wyoming House of Representatives, 46-12

Lessons in Overreach

Testimony before the Wyoming House Judiciary Committee on the GRANITE Act

BREAKING: West Virginia Introduces the West Virginia GRANITE Act

The Ofcom Files, Part 6: They’re Back

On the GB News Late Show talking about the GRANITE Act

Wyoming GRANITE Act sails through introduction vote in Wyoming House of Representatives, 57-5

Current working draft of the New Hampshire GRANITE Act

BREAKING: Congress considering backing up GRANITE Act efforts in Wyoming and New Hampshire

GB News With Bev Turner

“This all started with one dude.”

The Wyoming GRANITE Act, HB0070, has been formally introduced in the Wyoming legislature

State Department confirms: federal censorship shield law incoming

Spectator feature: Will Congress Shield the US from foreign attacks on the First Amendment?

Explaining the GRANITE Act on Harry Cole Saves the West

Near-Final Draft of the Wyoming GRANITE Act – 15 January 2025

Talking UK censorship on The Bitcoin Podcast with Walker

The Ofcom Files, Part V: Block Harder

Chatting w. Taylor Lorenz about the fight to keep the Internet free

4chan’s opposition to Ofcom’s motion to dismiss in D.C.

Who Writes the Laws of the Internet?

On Marty Bent’s TFTC podcast talking about the U.S. free speech fight vs the UK

Foreign censorship: Congress begins to move

Civis Americanus Sum

Byrne & Storm’s UK Online Safety Act Year in Review for 2025

Hosea 8:7

The U.S. Counter-Offensive Against Foreign Censorship Should Be Bipartisan

“If I can protect 4chan from the UK, I can protect anyone from the UK.”

What the world might look like if we get a federal GRANITE Act

“We’re not just coming for UK censorship. We want it all.”

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again

This is not a drill

On Galaxy Brains this week talking free speech + crypto

“I was given the mandate, and instructions to wage war on the Online Safety Act and destroy it.”

The Full Text of the Wyoming GRANITE Act

The Ofcom Files, Part 3: No Surrender

The Ofcom Files, Part 2: IP Blocking the UK is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety Act

The GRANITE Act: How Congress Can Strike Back Against Foreign Censors

The Ofcom Files

The Law of the Server is the Law of the Site: a Trans-Atlantic Free Speech Defense Doctrine

A Proposal for a New British Constitution

UK Lawyers: Be Not Afraid

To Win Back Free Speech, Britain Needs a New Constitution

An open letter to future AI