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Chinese State Media Accuses Facebook of “Suppressing Voices of Justice” by Supporting Hong Kong Protestors
According to the commentary, Facebook is jumping to the front of the state and mobilizing violence in the Hong Kong protests.
Twitch Bans SpongeBob Squarepants Emote for Being “Sexual Content”
Viewers are seeing this as yet another example of Twitch’s inconsistent standards.
YouTube Bans Trump Rally Livestream Broadcaster RSBN From Streaming
After amassing over 300 million views since the network started, and having been funded through “super chats” by the live viewers of the broadcasts, the network is now left with a message saying, “Your ability to livestream has been revoked.”
Twitter Bans Harry the Owl, Man Already Suing UK Police for Investigating “Thoughtcrimes”
Harry The Owl was criticizing another Twitter user who was celebrating the death of a woman who today died of cancer. The tweet got him banned from the platform.
Instagram Censors Fishmonger’s Produce Photos, Says They’re “Offensive or Disturbing”
Rex Goldsmith, suspected it might have been the work of “vegan warriors.”
Parody Account Titania McGrath Suspended by Twitter
The social platform today suspended everyone’s favorite intersectional social justice activist Titania McGrath for seven days for a post that “violates Twitter’s terms of service”.
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.
