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Game developer Tripwire parts ways with CEO John Gibson after pro-life tweet
Canceled over one tweet from his personal account.
Big Tech’s censorship of Ivermectin stories depend on who’s sharing it
An anti-ivermectin story has been debunked but hasn’t been censored online.
Poetry mag Barren drops editor over tweet
A benign opinion.
Edinburgh computer science students banned from using popular coding names “Alice and Bob” for being “too Western”
And default terms “master” and “slave” are also banned.
Twitter locked out Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, forced it to delete tweet
Twitter continues to insert itself between public institutions and the public.
Malta: 20 citizens face “hate speech” sentences for Facebook comments about violent attack perpetrators
The sentences ranged from fines to jail time.
Callin is a new “social podcasting app”
A new contender has just received its first round of funding.
Ogdensburg will defend mayor being sued from blocking constituents on Facebook
In terms of precedent, public officials have been ordered not to block citizens.
Middlesbrough’s Marc Bola charged with “aggravated” misconduct for social media post he made as a child
For a post back in 2012 when he was 14-years-old.
Weibo deletes stock-tip accounts after Beijing crackdown
Accounts that had millions of followers disappeared overnight.
“LGBT” websites remain blocked throughout the world
From Russia to Indonesia.