Cindy Harper
Cindy Harper blogs mostly about social media censorship and culture stories. [email protected]
Stories
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by the live viewers of the broadcasts, the network is now left with a message saying, “Your ability to livestream has been revoked.”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”.
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.
