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]
New Texas bill aims to stop Facebook and Twitter censoring content on the basis of political views
The vote in Texas this week on Senate Bill (SB) 2373 shows the relevance of this consideration
Popular UK news outlet Politicalite has Facebook page shut down
Politicalite UK writes that Facebook informed them their page had been “unpublished” – leaving the media outlet unable to reach 40,000 followers it had amassed on the global social media platform.
Medium appears to suspend a user’s account over mental health article
@KANTBOT20K had their post suspended soon after publishing the article.
Apple awarded “King” of customer support, but its online support forums have been accused of censorship
Users have been banned from Apple support forums for telling the truth.
Child labor laws never anticipated the YouTube and “influencer” era
Children are being put to work on YouTube and Instagram.
Joe Rogan Experience requests to be removed from new walled-garden podcasts app Luminary
The Joe Rogan podcast is snubbing the closed nature of the new VC-backed app.
Twitch wrongly suspends streamer TF Blade for using the “N-word”. He didn’t.
Twitch somehow thought the streamer, who had no prior offenses, used a racial slur during a stream. However, he didn’t. Twitch won’t correct their mistake.
Weedcraft Inc is facing YouTube censorship issues
The game soon hit the wall of YouTube’s and Facebook’s “aggressive policing.”
Twitter wants users to report “misleading election tweets” – what could go wrong?
Twitter uses will be able to report tweets that it feels are misleading during election periods.
Twitter’s user growth has stalled, amid controversy
That is why Twitter has been under pressure from investors since it went public in 2013 to grow users, and thus ad revenue.
New WhatsApp update will prevent screenshots
Since this is an early development version of the update, it’s also unclear right now if screenshots will continue to be disabled once the update rolls out, and whether the changes will affect iOS users as well.
Facebook is finding it impossible to police content due to so many global languages
The company points out that machine learning requires very large data sets – that are unavailable in many languages.