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.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki admits media coverage influences which censored videos get reinstated
Why is YouTube relying on media coverage rather than the content of the video or the qualifications of the doctor when making this decision?
YouTube removes video from Free Speech Union’s Toby Young after he criticized coronavirus lockdown measures
Another coronavirus video goes down for “violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.”
Tone deaf Mark Zuckerberg: “Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth”
Zuck’s statement goes against everything Facebook is currently doing.
Facebook soft-censors The Babylon Bee, starts forcing users to confirm that they actually want to share posts
The Babylon Bee has had to deal with its content being censored by Facebook several times over the last few years.
Trump proposes regulating or closing down social media platforms
Trump has made similar fruitless proposals in the past.
Twitter starts editorializing President Trump’s tweets and adding fact-checks from CNN
Politicians all over the world lie 24-7. But only one of them is getting fact-checked on Twitter.
Twitter says it will be making changes after media calls for Trump’s tweets to be censored
Twitter announced the changes hours after a New York Times article asked Twitter to delete President Trump’s tweets about Joe Scarborough.
Vice President Mike Pence: We’re not going to tolerate social media censorship
Pence didn’t provide specifics on how the Trump administration plans to tackle online censorship.
David Icke announces that he’s now banned from PayPal
Icke has been banned from many Big Tech platforms after he suggested that the coronavirus was being used to seize people’s rights in a viral video interview.
US Copyright Office proposes stripping YouTube of some of its DMCA safe harbor protections
The Copyright Office suggested that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm “may go beyond what Congress intended” when establishing the DMCA’s safe harbor protections.
YouTube censors video discussing the platform’s censorship of Professor Dolores Cahill interview
The video announcing how YouTube deleted the previous video has itself now been deleted.
YouTube starts reinstating some coronavirus videos as it faces growing criticism for censoring content
Creators and viewers have blasted the video sharing platform for taking down several popular coronavirus videos.