Naga Pramod
Naga Pramod is a computer science major and tech news reporter with a passion for cyber security, networking, and data science. [email protected]
Behind the scenes of China’s “content surveillance”
China’s WeChat censors messages containing blacklisted words, keeping citizens in the dark about major issues.
Free Speech Alliance calls for an end to Facebook’s “Supreme Court” of speech authority
Groups are pushing back at the way Facebooks Oversight Board has been set up.
Amazon sued for misleading you into believing you own a copy of the digital movies you purchase
When Amazon removes a movie from their catalog, customers lose access to it – even if they “bought” it.
EU officials let China censor ambassador’s letter
Why is everyone allowing censorship?
Twitter pressured to scrub more “misinformation”
The culture of pressuring platforms to censor those with the wrong opinions is spreading.
Former Google CEO invited by Gov. Cuomo to chair commission to build a tech-focused post-pandemic New York
Schmidt’s conflicts of interest are mounting up.
Commentators get small win after Sony, Naughty Dog burned through any remaining good will with copyright system abuse
Commentators are slowly being vindicated after the Last of Us 2 creators abused the copyright system to silence criticism – even content that didn’t contain any leaked imagery.
Sony was granted a patent for “spoiler blocking” technology just days before The Last of Us 2 leaks
The technology will control the amount of spoilers a player comes in contact with until they’ve completed enough of the game.
Ethan Klein video wrongly demonetized by YouTube for being “racist”
The video was confirmed by human review.
How Huawei’s 5G roll-out is directly tied to China’s human rights abuses and “digital gulags”
Nations have more than one reason to reconsider Huawei’s 5G roll-out.
How China appoints 4.5 million “administrators” to snoop on and report neighbors who don’t conform
Coming to a state near you?
YouTube suspends account of Ripple CTO, one week after the company sued YouTube
The account was suspended for impersonation.