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Report states Apple will loosen its iron App Store grip in 2023
In the face of antitrust complaints.
Pro-censorship activist is confronted over own tweets calling for accosting of Supreme Court Justices
During a house oversight committee.
Privacy concerns are raised over Chinese surveillance companies’ access to UK business crime data
Chinese surveillance tech, with links to the CCP, is prominent in the UK.
Maricopa County recorder contacted DHS cyber agency for help with social media partnerships
Documents found through legal discovery.
UK government asked Twitter and Facebook to “tweak” algorithms during Covid
And a Facebook executive was “happy to oblige.”
Protests and hunger strike take place at Apple’s HQ, after the company’s censorship in China and more
Apple is getting more attention for helping the Chinese Communist Party censor critics.
Vietnam to ban online ads being shown near “toxic” anti-government content
The next internet censorship plan from the country.
Rep Kevin McCarthy calls for investigation into social media censorship following Twitter disclosures
McCarthy said the government influenced Twitter to censor critics.
Apple is split on decision to fire executive over joke posted to TikTok
The latest in a growing sense of intolerance across Silicon Valley.
A junior employee was the only pushback against Twitter execs’ thirst to ban President Trump
“This might be an unpopular opinion but one off ad hoc decisions like this that don’t appear rooted in policy are imho a slippery slope and reflect an alternatively equally dictatorial problem.”
Elon Musk says some political candidates running for office were secretly shadow banned on Twitter
Musk is yet to reveal which ones.
Twitter Files allege different levels of election tweet scrutiny, depending on pro-Trump vs pro-Biden stance
Discussions around decisions have been published.