I am Pavel Kadlec, the founder and editor of Brussels Record, an independent English-language site about censorship, algorithms and platform power. By training I am a social worker and I hold a doctorate (PhDr.) in the field.
One question drives everything published here: who decides what you get to see and say online? Laws, algorithms and moderation systems answer it for us every day, usually out of sight. This site exists to make those decisions visible. Plain language, primary sources, written for the people affected by them. That focus comes straight from social work: you start with the people a system touches, not with the system.
What I make
Our own reporting comes first: the Who Decides? explainer series, the EU Chat Control Tracker (a continuously updated record of what applies right now), the table of where the 27 governments stand and a plain-language glossary. Until September 2026 the site also republished selected work by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Global Voices and EDRi under their open licences. Those pieces stay online, clearly marked and unaltered; everything new here is now written here.
How I work
Openly. The site has a public editorial policy and a page explaining how it is funded. I use AI tools, currently Anthropic’s Claude, for research, drafting and editing, and drafts can be substantially machine-written from the documents I cite; every published word is reviewed and approved by me, and the responsibility for it is mine. Corrections are welcome and taken seriously. They make the work better.
Contact
Use the contact form, or see For journalists if you are writing about these topics. The tracker and explainers can be cited freely under their Creative Commons licence.
