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.
MembersBig Tech’s shift to preemptive censorship
? Vague predictions about when users might break the rules are increasingly driving social media censorship.
Facebook blocks links to fundraising campaigns for Kyle Rittenhouse legal defense
The campaigns were created after his GoFundMe was shut down, but now Facebook is blocking them and even punishing users for sharing links.
Documents suggest Facebook uses media “accusations” to determine credibility of alleged crimes
Evidence disputing the accusations doesn’t appear to be considered in the section of the documents describing how to determine whether an alleged crime is “credible.”
Facebook’s new terms give it more discretion to censor whatever it wants
The new terms allow it to ban users and censor content to avoid “legal or regulatory impacts”
Fediverse apps promise a future free of censorship and Big Tech, but Google is threatening them
Google gives developers the impossible task of ensuring users don’t come across anything that could be deemed “hateful.”
SC mayor faces calls for resignation after Facebook post saying Black Lives Matter is a terror organization
“Why do we stand by and allow BLM to lawlessly destroy great American cities and threaten their citizens on a daily basis?” the mayor wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post.
Instagram starts hiding hashtag results for QAnon
The topic has now been purged from most of the major social media platforms.
Facebook announces new deep learning system that automatically detects “misinformation”
The system could lead to even more automated censorship on the platform.
MembersThe way Big Tech prescribes its version of the truth shares many parallels with China
? Both the Chinese Communist Party and Big Tech use similar tactics to push their official narratives while purging anything that opposes them.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War teaser trailer censored worldwide on behalf of China
The teaser trailer was initially censored in China but now it has been removed in all countries.
TikTok lawsuit against the Trump administration expected to fail
It’s a “delaying tactic, at best,” argues U.C. Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy professor Steven Davidoff Solomon.
Assistant literary agent fired after transgender activists complain that her Twitter account is “transphobic”
The bio of the account made no reference to her employer.