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In an attempt to block a massage parlor, the Kazakhstan government blocked over 93,000 websites
Several of these website blocking attempts make use of a method in which a website is blocked by its IP address, an outdated practice that does more harm than good.
Judge calls on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to testify on blocking Twitter users from seeing her tweets
Ocasio-Cortez previously claimed that she only blocked accounts for “ongoing harassment”
YouTube says rule exceptions are made with content from some politicians
YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki spoke at The Atlantic Festival.
Take-Two Interactive accused of harassing YouTuber’s mom over Red Dead Redemption mod
YouTuber and modder GamingDamned says that Take-Two Interactive illegally obtained non-public contact information and then harassed him and his family.
Report finds evidence of TikTok censorship
ByteDance said the original goal was to not censorship – but preventing “conflict” from the real world spilling over to the platform.
Alex Jones sues The Young Turks and Brianna Wu for libel
Jones’ suit alleges that the defendants libeled Jones over the summer when they falsely accused him of sending child porn.
Facebook says politicians are exempt from third-party fact-checking program but still fact-checks their posts
The exemption will only apply to “organic content” that has been created by the politician.
Duolingo censors app after Twitter users say phrasing is offensive to illegal immigrants
The CEO announced that they would censor the app and remove those phrases anyway to avoid any confusion.
YouTuber Drift0r used the n-word in an anti-racism video. Now an online mob is trying to get him cancelled
Brad Overbey, AKA Drift0r, is a popular gaming YouTuber with over 1.41 million subscribers and has been on the platform for over a decade.
Kara Swisher and Sarah Jeong say there is no evidence of social media bias against conservatives
Numerous investigative reports and leaked documents have shown big tech algorithms and employees appearing to suppress conservative content in 2019.
Glawischnig-Piesczek vs. Facebook could determine the future of social media upload filters
Back in 2016, a Facebook post containing an article with a photograph of the Austrian politician was posted alongside comments calling her a “corrupt oaf,” “lousy traitor” and so on.
Amazon, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp join big tech anti-terror coalition for fighting “extremist” content online
The announcement follows warnings from the EFF that innocent users will be hurt the most when attempting to crush “extremist” speech online.