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Kevin Williamson’s book The Smallest Minority says “antidiscourse” is the cause of social media outrage mobs
Antidiscourse – whose goal is to demean the opponent, and where the result has “more in common with dogs barking at one another than it does with actual political discourse.”
Google increases its ties with Egypt’s oppressive rulers
Google office will reopen this September, with a focus on customer sales.
It’s unconstitutional for a politician to block users on Twitter, Missouri court rules
This ruling follows similar precedent from other courts on similar cases.
Now Beto O’Rourke wants to kill Section 230 – this time to counter “hate speech and gun violence”
Section 230 is what allowed the internet to thrive.
Google leaker explains how blacklists work
The Google insider went into more detail about how Google censors certain content.
Leaked video shows YouTube CEO talking news manipulation, deciding what’s “authoritative” and what’s “trashy”
YouTube CEO admits that it manipulates news ranking.
Twitter locks account of leading gun statistics expert John Lott
Lott is accusing the platform of political bias.
Twitch streamer Anomaly’s ban for briefly showing Hitler Minecraft skin has been lifted
The ban was criticized by many people who saw it as yet another example of Twitch’s inconsistent application of the rules.
Twitter is testing a filter that hides “offensive” direct messages
It’s part of Twitter’s continued efforts to police what users see on the platform.
Google leaker says Tulsi Gabbard may have been victim of same exploit used to take down Jordan Peterson
Gabbard is suing Google for suspending her search ads account a few hours after the first Democratic presidential debate.
Moderation AI is doing a bad job considering language, culture, and context
AI just doesn’t understand context and it’s censoring people for no reason.
Feminist social network Spinster is the newest and biggest free speech platform using Gab
Gab seems to be delivering on what it says on the box.