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]
“Misgendering” a robot in the upcoming Borderlands 3 could get users banned from community
“Misgendering” a character in the game – a robot called FL4K – will have their account banned from the official platform, on the grounds of having violated hate speech rules.
Facebook tells a girl her name is an ethnic slur, bans her from the platform
The woman also explained that she named the child believing the word to mean “wanderer.”
Trump’s meme master Carpe Donktum announces new platform, blocked by Facebook within hours
Just hours after its launched, Facebook blocked people sharing the website.
Facebook bans grieving mother after she invited friends to her son’s memorial page
The mother was even denied her appeal. It was only fixed when media got involved.
Elementary OS is the latest group to ditch Medium for their own blog
Organizations are ditching Medium after pushing back against restrictions Medium tries to impose on users and readers.
Facebook staff to start “curating” the news for users
“Our goal with the News Tab is to provide a personalized, highly relevant experience for people,” said Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of news partnerships.
Gizmodo Media bans reporters from using encrypted communications, wants access to their tweets
The employers want access to quite a lot.
Kevin Williamson’s book The Smallest Minority says “antidiscourse” is the cause of social media outrage mobs
Antidiscourse – whose goal is to demean the opponent, and where the result has “more in common with dogs barking at one another than it does with actual political discourse.”
Android developer says Google banned him, refuses to respond with a reason why
The developer has millions of users of his apps and wants Google to explain to him so that he can fix the issue they have. He says Google won’t respond.
Google increases its ties with Egypt’s oppressive rulers
Google office will reopen this September, with a focus on customer sales.
It’s unconstitutional for a politician to block users on Twitter, Missouri court rules
This ruling follows similar precedent from other courts on similar cases.
Now Beto O’Rourke wants to kill Section 230 – this time to counter “hate speech and gun violence”
Section 230 is what allowed the internet to thrive.