Naga Pramod
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EU banks set to challenge Visa and Mastercard duopoly with new universal payment system
The EU wants to challenge the payment companies’ dominance.
Disney Plus’ Hamilton is the latest target of cancel culture complaints
Hamilton is a winner for Disney Plus and won’t be going anywhere despite complaints.
Facebook censors article critical of its business partner Shutterstock
Facebook says the article goes against its Community Standards.
Petition asking women be called “women” instead of “menstruators” called transphobic, deleted by change.org
Change says it broke the community guidelines.
Katie Hopkins banned from Twitter
Twitter won’t say which tweets caused the ban.
Big Tech says it’s prepared to crack down on misinformation in election run-up
Social platforms are constantly asked to “do more” in removing misinformation.
Germany’s hate speech law gets stricter, raises privacy concerns
Germany has announced new stricter reforms to its already-controversial bill.
Only 20% of people trust Big Tech to decide what people are allowed to talk about
People want more freedom, a new survey suggests.
Pelosi calls on advertisers to use their “position of power”, get social media to censor more “misinformation”
Pelosi wants social platforms to be hit where it hurts.
The FCC is already casting doubt on Trump’s anti-censorship executive order
Exactly as expected.
Chinese propaganda mocks the US over police brutality, but in China criticism of police is censored in real-time
China’s social media censorship prevents citizens voicing concerns about police misconduct.