Cindy Harper
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Russian Instagram user faces jail for using the platform
Facebook and Instagram are banned in Russia.
Meta’s Nick Clegg says the company risks being “the greatest industrial-scale censor ever in human history”
Yet the platform continues to censor opinions.
PayPal shuts account of group who fought to keep schools open during pandemic
Another casualty of the recent PayPal purge.
Iran cuts off internet access to curb protests
A suppression tactic.
Rights holders end legal demands for ISPs to ban movie pirates from the internet
The plaintiffs must have realized their demands were overreaching.
Ad-blocker AdGuard struggles with Google’s extension rules
Google’s core business is ads. Its new API changes curb the power of ad-blockers.
Taliban set to ban TikTok and video game PUBG
After already banning many forms of media.
Meta Oversight Board says Facebook’s image auto-censorship tech is broken, harming free speech
The technology is automatically censoring speech.
Facebook blocks holocaust movie Beautiful Blue Eyes
Appeals were denied.
China is building a database of DNA from Tibetan citizens
Major privacy concerns.
Judge suspends Arizona’s law limiting the filming of cops
On First Amendment grounds.