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]
PolitiFact editor says people should lose email accounts over harassment
Losing an email account would also lock people out of all of their other online accounts.
UK: 4-year-old referred to anti-extremism group after mentioning Fortnite “guns and bombs”
A threat to free speech.
Twitter bans corporate account of MyPillow
The account was deleted for its association with its CEO.
The bias within the study that says there’s no anti-conservative bias in social media bans
The study may have a few biases of its own.
Government demands for Amazon user data increased by 800% in 2020
Amazon is a big holder of user data.
Members
YouTube deletes Ford Fischer’s newsworthy footage of crowd reacting to Trump speech, calls it “spam”
More bias with how YouTube treats news agencies.
Sephora drops conservative influencer Amanda Ensing for “not aligning with their values”
Activists called for Sephora to sever ties.
Google reinstates decentralized chat app Element after sudden ban
A federated alternative to Google’s own Hangouts and Duo Android apps got suspended from the Play Store without explanation on Saturday. Element (previously known as Riot.im) is one of the clients, and a popular one, for Matrix, a federated open source messaging protocol. Judging by the comment
UK terror police: online privacy is “putting lives at risk”
End-to-end encryption, which tech companies implement in their products and services to keep them safe and secure for their users, are a constant target of certain segments of law enforcement apparatuses in various countries. This time it was the turn of UK’s anti-terrorist “cyber police” chief