Tom Parker
Tom Parker is a founder and lead editor for Reclaim The Net and provides news and analysis on how we can promote free speech, stop censorship, and protect our personal data online.
Reddit outlines new vague and ambiguous bullying and harassment guidelines
Reddit’s vague policy update is the latest of many vague policies and guidelines introduced by the tech giants this year.
Report: Facebook will only pay a quarter of the publishers featured in its coming news section
Facebook is facing growing scrutiny over the way it selectively presents the news to readers.
Pope Francis warns big tech CEOs that AI could create “an unfortunate regression to a new form of barbarism”
Pope Frances urged an assembly which included Silicon Valley CEOs to find a unifying ethical framework to guide development in the tech sector.
Security firm reportedly spied on Julian Assange in Ecuadorian embassy for the CIA
The security firm was charged with protecting the Ecuadorian embassy in London while Julian Assange was living there.
Judge calls on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to testify on blocking Twitter users from seeing her tweets
Ocasio-Cortez previously claimed that she only blocked accounts for “ongoing harassment”
Take-Two Interactive accused of harassing YouTuber’s mom over Red Dead Redemption mod
YouTuber and modder GamingDamned says that Take-Two Interactive illegally obtained non-public contact information and then harassed him and his family.
Alex Jones sues The Young Turks and Brianna Wu for libel
Jones’ suit alleges that the defendants libeled Jones over the summer when they falsely accused him of sending child porn.
Facebook says politicians are exempt from third-party fact-checking program but still fact-checks their posts
The exemption will only apply to “organic content” that has been created by the politician.
Kara Swisher and Sarah Jeong say there is no evidence of social media bias against conservatives
Numerous investigative reports and leaked documents have shown big tech algorithms and employees appearing to suppress conservative content in 2019.
Amazon, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp join big tech anti-terror coalition for fighting “extremist” content online
The announcement follows warnings from the EFF that innocent users will be hurt the most when attempting to crush “extremist” speech online.
Yahoo says only users in US and Israel will be compensated for data breach
The settlement is related to massive data breaches between 2013 and 2016 which affected all of Yahoo’s approximately 3 billion accounts worldwide.
World’s largest and oldest commercial archive Adland taken offline after questionable DMCA claim
Adland had been online for 23 years and often hosted ads that had been banned or censored elsewhere.