Rick Findlay
Rick is a Reclaim contributor who's interested in the way censorship and top-down control of social platforms is encouraging a new future of decentralized tech. [email protected]
Telegram is unbanned in Brazil after agreeing to censor
Telegram is also establishing relationships with “fact-checkers.”
Social platform Minds and Daryl Davis explain new anti-censorship project
A new paper highlights why de-platforming is bad.
Firefox removes Yandex search, will auto-switch affected users to Google
Support for Russia’s Mail.ru is also pulled.
Vanced, a 3rd-party YouTube app, shuts down after Google legal threat
Vanced allowed users to block ads and more.
Substack launches new app for reading newsletters and more
RSS integration is also available.
Biden issues exploration of a US digital dollar
As well as a broader cryptocurrency surveillance investigation.
Rumble announces large popular YouTube channels are joining the growing platform
Rumble is pulling in a diverse range of lifestyle content.
San Francisco stored rape victims’ DNA on central database to find criminals
The invasive practice could stop victims from coming forward.
Hosting platform RightForge says it will not censor legal speech
An alternative to Big Tech hosting.
TikTok sucks up more data than any other social app. Where it goes is a mystery.
The China-based app gives more data to third parties than the likes of FB and Twitter.
GiveSendGo hacked, Freedom Convoy donors list posted online
Another attack on the crowdfunding platform.