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Human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed slams Amazon for labeling her “controversial” and rejecting her book ads
A few hours after she posted about Amazon suspending her ads, Mohammed says her post was then removed by Facebook for violating its community standards.
Stack Exchange moderators quit after new rules forcing members to use “preferred gender pronouns”
Cellio explained that she was terminated under the assumption that Cellio “will in the future violate a thoughtcrime-style provision of a Code of Conduct change that hasn’t been made yet.”
Democrats call on Facebook to shut off Trump’s ad campaigns
The DNC is not missing a beat on its multi-year narrative, which prominently included building a case for “fake news” and “fact-checking” – as it now calls on Facebook not to allow Trump to argue his case.
The White House is the latest victim of YouTube’s bogus copyright system
Trump has had many of his viral memes suppressed this year as a result of questionable copyright claims.
Iraq government blocks Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and others to squash protests
As of Thursday morning, nearly three-fourth of the country is devoid of internet connectivity.
Apple bans Hong Kong protest safety app and is accused of “sucking up to China”
Hong Kong protestors and residents used the app to avoid conflict and areas that local police had marked as “illegal assembly” zones.
Kickstarter rejects Mike S. Miller’s comic book Lonestar, for depiction of “marginalized group” MS-13
In the Lonestar sample that Miller shared, the hero saves a woman from a group of MS-13 gang members.
Facebook censors professor’s Wiki documenting Elizabeth Warren’s controversies
Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson is the one who was in this instance forced to bear the brunt of Facebook’s overzealous attempts to moderate its platform.
Justin Trudeau makes tackling online “hate speech” a major election policy
“We believe that when social media platforms are used to spread these harmful views, the platforms themselves must also be held accountable,” the party said.
Twitter user’s account locked for referencing the fact that someone is a transgender person
Ultimately, Hogberg drew attention to Twitter’s heavy reliance on user reports for speech code violations, and how a few “extremists” across Twitter are holding the social media network captive in their hands.
Instagram now lets users shadowban other users
Instagram thinks the advantage that this tool offers over the other options, is that the person you restricted won’t know what is happening, acting as what is commonly referred to as a shadowban.
Facebook deletes cancer charity’s breast cancer awareness video
The video, posted by Cancer Network Northern Ireland was educational in nature, meant to instruct women on how to discover cancer signs and symptoms early.