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]
Town mayor faces calls for resignation after “Aunt Jemima” joke on Facebook
Social media users are campaigning to get him removed.
MembersHow off-campus speech of US public school students is protected
? A new ruling makes things clearer.
GreatFire introduces app maker to bypass China’s censorship
This is just the latest of their tools to help combat censorship from the Chinese Communist Party.
Some Facebook mods support the ads boycott, call for more censorship
The boycott has mostly been seen as a PR stunt that had negligible effect on Facebook’s bottom line.
Meme Stamp: Adobe tool to show “veracity” of memes to reduce “misinformation”
Memes, photos, and videos will be cryptographically tagged for authenticity.
Twitter tries to justify why Ayatollah Khamenei’s tweets remain up but Trump’s get censored
Twitter gets quizzed on the alleged double standard.
Facebook censors hydroxychloroquine praise, even in countries where it’s an official treatment
Facebook’s censorship isn’t relevant in every country.
YouTube deletes Del Bigtree’s The Highwire news network
The alternative news network had over 211,000 subscribers.
Fauci suggests “do more” to stop “dangerous conspiracies”
With censorship of anti-official narratives already rife, it’s hard to see how more could be done.
New bill aims to punish tech companies that censor “lawful speech”
This bill is the latest in the move against Big Tech’s control over public discourse.
New bill aims to strip immunity protections for tech companies that profile users for ads
Senator Josh Hawley’s new bill would reqire tech companies to avoid profiling users for advertising if they want to keep Section 230 protections.
Breitbart accuses Google of censorship, provides the evidence
Google is preventing Breitbart from getting any clicks for the term “Joe Biden.”