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Cheerleader’s First Amendment Snapchat post case heads to the Supreme Court
The court has been asked to rule on whether students can be disciplined for their off-campus social media posts.
Nicaraguan man says he was beaten by police after posting critical TikTok videos
Increasingly common.
Melinda Gates says “more could be done” to suppress “disinformation” on social media
Calls for more censorship.
Twitter suspends pro-hydroxychloroquine Doctor Zev Zelenko
Support of HCQ has often been censored on Twitter.
MembersDevice locking: the dystopian censorship technology that’s on the horizon
? Big Tech’s growing control over users’ devices is slowly making censorship at the device level a reality.
China sentences coronavirus whistleblower citizen journalist
She is set to spend four years in prison.
Chinese state media operative calls on Twitter to shut down President Trump’s account
Twitter is banned in China but Chinese officials and media operatives use it to call for censorship of Western political figures.
YouTube channel of journalist Anna Brees deleted after interviewing anti-lockdown doctor Heiko Schoning
Brees had 75,000 subscribers.
Apple is still censoring its App Store for China
Profits over principles.
VK bans British political party Britain First
The Russian-based platform deleted the page.
YouTube hints its next “misinformation” crackdown will curb videos that get referral traffic from other sites
The video-sharing platform suggested that changes would be coming as part of its “ongoing improvements.”