Didi Rankovic
Didi Rankovic is an experienced online journalist, editor, and translator, with a career spanning over ten years writing for major a English-language website in Serbia, and previously working as translator for international organizations and peacekeepers in the Balkans. Rankovic is passionate about free and open source tech and is a head contributor for Reclaim The Net, focusing on lead stories. [email protected]
Instagram says it will cut the reach of posts that are “likely” to contain “hate speech”
More opaque algorithmic censorship.
Senate committee votes to advance Big Tech antitrust bill
Big Tech is lobbying against it.
Germany’s Interior Ministry accuses Google and Apple of inciting “conspiracy theories” for allowing Telegram
Telegram is one of the next censorship targets.
Social platforms push back against Australia’s online censorship law
Facebook and Twitter call for a review of the law.
YouTube demonetizes news bloopers channel News Be Funny
Another channel down.
A book review blog was removed from the internet over a false DMCA notice
Increasingly common.
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Democrats’ new bill targets “surveillance advertising”
The bill is set to limit the ways companies can profit from user data.
China’s Olympics app is mandatory for heath data, has privacy flaws, and a censorship blacklist
The developers are yet to fix the issues.
Pfizer-backed CDC Foundation partnered with Facebook to fund social media tactics to increase “vaccine uptake”
Messages to the White House have been obtained.
Fauci reports back to Davos that the US has a Covid “disinformation” problem
Constant censorship push.
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