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Rashida Tlaib accused of racism over facial recognition technology comments
“Analysts need to be African Americans, not people that are not,” Tlaib said to Craig, who is black. “I think non-African Americans think African Americans all look the same.
Kickstarter rejects Mike S. Miller’s comic book Lonestar, for depiction of “marginalized group” MS-13
In the Lonestar sample that Miller shared, the hero saves a woman from a group of MS-13 gang members.
Facebook is censoring medical benzodiazepine support groups, leaving patients unable to find help
Users looking to learn more about the prescription drugs unable to get access to the information they need.
LAPD suspends Google ads after Twitter users complained its adverts appeared on Breitbart
A Twitter mob wanted to know why the LAPD was advertising on conservative news website, Breitbart.
How to turn on DNS over HTTPS on Firefox
Here’s how to make sure it’s turned on in your version of Firefox.
Duolingo censors app after Twitter users say phrasing is offensive to illegal immigrants
The CEO announced that they would censor the app and remove those phrases anyway to avoid any confusion.
Vimeo sued for allegedly building biometric database of faces
The lawsuit against Vimeo has been filed by Bradley Acaley from Illinois who claims that this kind of biometric data collection and building face prints of users is without permission
Facebook to acquire CTRL-Labs to create mind-control device input
The social media giant is rumored to be paying up to $1 billion for the company.
YouTuber CGP Grey YouTube account suspended
“Your access to this Google product has been suspended, because of a perceived violation of either the Google Terms of Service or product-specific Terms of Service.”
Major game modding channel MxR Mods loses YouTube partnership and gets demonetized
Henry Liang, who owns one of the largest and consistently popular modding channels on YouTube, MxR Mods, has received an email from YouTube announcing that they’re removing the channel from the partnership program and demonetizing the entire channel.
YouTube bans Trump rally livestream broadcaster RSBN from streaming
After amassing over 300 million views since the network started, and having been funded through “super chats” by the live viewers of the broadcasts, the network is now left with a message saying, “Your ability to livestream has been revoked.”
Parody account Titania McGrath suspended by Twitter
The social platform today suspended everyone’s favorite intersectional social justice activist Titania McGrath for seven days for a post that “violates Twitter’s terms of service”.