Cindy Harper
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Russia threatens to ban YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter after they censor Russian media outlets
One pro-censorship entity threatens to ban another.
Citizen journalist who documented suspicious goings-on in Wuhan is charged
Zhang could spend 4-5 years in jail.
UK Labour Party calls for social platforms to be punished if they don’t delete vaccine-skeptical conversations
Trying to kill even more civil liberties.
Australia plans to automatically use people’s payment records for coronavirus “tracing”
Another proposed threat to privacy and freedoms.
UK Law Commission victim-blames after terror attacks, calls for Mohammed cartoons to be banned
Terrible implications for freedom of speech.
Rumble trends on Android as YouTube censorship drives users to alternative
Rumble has experienced tremendous growth.
Target silently removes then reinstates Dr. Debra Soh’s book, The End of Gender
The second of such censorship cases in the last week.
Trump law firm withdraws from election challenge after Twitter harassment campaign against employees
The Lincoln Project encouraged its followers to contact employees of the law firm.
Target temporarily banned Abigail Shrier book after complaint from Twitter user
Target backtracked but it’s rather chilling that a complaint from a single Twitter user can get a book banned.
Austrian court gives Facebook impossible order to remove “defamatory” “hate speech” globally
All “identical” and “equivalent” speech to a critical post against a politician is to be removed.