Speech
Christian rapper Bryson Gray censored by Spotify over anti-Pride Month track
“You can rap about killing people all day and be fine though,” Gray said.
Twitter complies with order to ban Brazil’s Workers’ Cause Party
Free speech is increasingly under threat in Brazil.
Even Meta pushes back against the UK’s online surveillance and censorship bill
Meta says the bill would require platforms to scan “all private messaging.”
New York Times complains that Big Tech may censor less “election misinformation” during the 2022 midterms
Unhappy that some speech restrictions have been lifted.
Twitter bans epidemiologist Dr. Andrew Bostom who linked to vaccine-sperm study
The latest casualty of Twitter’s Covid censorship.
The UK’s shadowy “counter-disinformation unit” has shifted from Covid to war
Actively getting select speech removed from social media platforms.
Private prison wants a judge to shut down criticism on Twitter
Requesting a gag order.
Paramount says it won’t censor old content to please modern audiences
Taking a difference stance to its rivals.
Judge Shuts Down Attempt to Use Copyright Law to Unmask a Billionaire’s Critic
A win for free speech protections.
Reddit bans r/TumblrInAction and r/SocialJusticeInAction
Continuing its embrace of censorship.
Twitter censors ads for free speech event
“Inappropriate content.”