Instagram blocked hashtag #IWillLightACandletoo, commemorating Iran missile strike plane victims January 8, 2022
UK: Parish councillor gets police visit for posting “trans rights are very, very boring” January 8, 2022
UK Culture Secretary boasts about shadowy “anti-disinformation” unit; “daily we have contact with the online providers” January 8, 2022
Matt Walsh, podcaster and political commentator, is locked out of Twitter over transgender tweets January 8, 2022
Sweden to tackle “misinformation” by “psychological” means but insists it’s not the “Ministry of Truth” January 7, 2022
Washington governor Jay Inslee ignores First Amendment, wants to criminalize falsely claiming election corruption January 7, 2022
US Copyright Office’s new General Counsel previously worked to protect Disney’s intellectual property January 7, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene on Big Tech censorship: Don’t trust Congress to fix it, embrace alt-tech January 6, 2022
YouTube threatens to censor video of a man in the US over an order from a Russian judge January 6, 2022
DuckDuckGo accuses Google of further anti-competitive practices with “Change back to Google search” message January 6, 2022
France suspends debates after Macron admitted he wants to “piss off” those without a vaccine passport January 5, 2022
CBC producer quits, says broadcaster “embodied some of the worst trends in mainstream media” January 5, 2022
The US Copyright Office is floating the idea of mandating a content upload filter on the internet January 5, 2022
Rumble announces its own advertising marketplace to strengthen its “immunity to cancel culture” January 4, 2022
Facebook says permanent ban of conservative kids’ book publisher “shouldn’t have happened” January 4, 2022