Speech
Angel Mom’s post about illegal immigrant crime is censored on Facebook for “hate speech”
The latest example is Facebook’s decision to remove posts from the personal page of Mary Ann Mendoza, a woman whose son, a police officer, was killed by a drunk-driving illegal immigrant back in 2014.
Russia looks to block Mailbox.org and other communications providers
Germany and America-based companies behind these services – Heinlein Support and SCRYPTmail – previously failed to register with the authorities as required by Russian law.
Russia considers complete ban of Facebook, Instagram and YouTube
The signs are pointing in the direction of the likes of Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube being completely blocked in Russia by early 2021.
Facebook reportedly cuts off police access to WhatsApp in Hong Kong
The information the police were soliciting from citizens included photos and video and audio recordings.
Microsoft suggests Chromium “cleanup of potentially offensive terms” such as “blacklist”
Microsoft is making its decisions on what’s allowed and what isn’t based on “a machine learned model that does context based scanning on hundreds of file formats.”
PewDiePie backtracks on ADL donation, says he was “advised” to do it, fans could tell “something was off”
“I also didn’t know a lot of things that surfaced throughout this whole thing about the charity…I understand why people had concerns about it and these are things that I would have known myself I had just taken my time,” PewDiePie said.
Facebook fact checkers to face investigation for bias after alleged motive-driven “false” ratings
The investigation is related to Facebook posts from pro-life non-profit Live Action being labeled “False” by “independent fact-checkers.”
Buzzword “hate speech” is spawning new industries intent on profiting from curbing online speech
Such is the power of the concept of hate speech today that an industry is springing up around it, to serve mostly tech giants under fire from politicians and the media.
Ted Cruz condemns coordinated online deplatforming of Alex Jones, calls the trend “troubling”
Cruz said he’s not a fan of Jones but that free speech protects everyone.
Barstool Sports announces move to Telegram to avoid big tech censorship
Barstool isn’t the first media organization or personality to start diversifying their content channels.
Nintendo successfully persuades court to order ISPs to block access to websites
The litigious gaming company was able to persuade the court to require UK internet providers to block accesses to websites that enable Switch game piracy.
YouTube blocks satire video after request from Indonesian government
This isn’t the first time YouTube has blocked comedic content at the request of a government.