Cindy Harper
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UK National Crime Agency to create database of voice recordings to identify suspects
Civil liberties and privacy groups already fear the latest move would create “yet another state-held library” without “clear rules.”
Barstool Sports announces move to Telegram to avoid big tech censorship
Barstool isn’t the first media organization or personality to start diversifying their content channels.
eBay is investigating why its logo turned into a photo of a topless woman
The circumstances under which the mistake happened would still not go a long way towards explaining why the image was stored on eBay’s – or Microsoft’s – computers in the first place.
Tulsi Gabbard hits back at big tech censorship, algorithms, and suppressing freedom of speech
Gabbard said that social platforms are trying to “get the best of both worlds,” marketing themselves as free and open communication platforms and expel those whose ideas and expressions they dislike.
Google bans family cafe for “offensive content” for posting photo of British dish, faggots and peas
“I don’t really associate the word ‘faggots’ with anything offensive, and yet someone has made a decision that’s affecting my livelihood.”
EA wins Guinness World Record for most downvoted Reddit comment in history
Gamer Redditors didn’t take too kindly to EA doubling down on their hostile pay-to-play business practices and downvoted the post into the Reddit history.
Major Facebook bug allows users to edit the title of any news article
There are at least two loopholes that we know of that allow you to edit the title of any article that you post to Facebook.
Wikipedia is down, experiencing sustained DDoS attack
A “massive and very” broad DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is hitting the Wikimedia Foundation servers
Imgur now requires users to hand over their phone number to create an account
In this age of greater focus on privacy, the impact that it could have on new signups is not yet known.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says “big tech has gotten too powerful a force” and should be broken up
“Competition forces companies to make good products and be the best at it, and not just say; we’ve got you trapped!” Wozniak said.
Pepe The Frog is a symbol of liberty during Hong Kong pro-democracy protests
Left-leaning organizations have tried to paint the character as being “racist”.
Cory Williams the “first professional YouTuber” is leaving after algorithm changes wiped out his livelihood
Williams joins others in criticizing the platform for not supporting independent creators.