Speech
Twitter suspends the account of Unity4J, prominent Julian Assange free speech support community
Users are shocked at Twitter’s stance against free speech.
UK police are still investigating journalists over the Edward Snowden case from 2013
UK’s National Union of Journalists criticized it by saying that reporting about unlawful surveillance was in the public interest.
New proposed US copyright laws are a major threat to free speech
The new laws have a good chance of being passed on Congress.
Google bans Gab app, gives the decentralized social network an impossible list of demands
Google’s decision means it can now ban ANY app that features what it deems to be user generated content if it decides that content is “objectionable.”
YouTube says new “creator-on-creator harassment” rules are coming
This comes after Vox host Carlos Maza claimed that comedian Steven Crowder’s jokes about him constituted “harassment.”
Live Action founder Lila Rose calls out Pinterest censorship in White House Social Media Summit speech
Live Action’s Pinterest account was deleted after an investigative report revealed that Pinterest was preventing its users from linking to Live Action content.
Twitter launches soft censorship feature “hidden replies” – starting in Canada
The feature has been tested for some time, and now it’s about to roll out.
Harmeet K. Dhillon slams social media censorship during speech at White House Social Media Summit
Dhillon also mentioned two of her clients, conservative writer David Horowitz and former Google engineer James Damore, during her speech and talked about the censorship and discrimination the tech giants have subjected them to.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger calls for a “social contract for social media”
Sanger has an increasing interest in the future of social platforms and ensuring that new platforms don’t make the mistake the old ones made.
Popular cartoonist Ben Garrison responds to being uninvited from White House Social Media Summit
Garrison would have been one of the few attendees who had experienced social media censorship first-hand.
Larry Sanger’s social media boycott campaign was suppressed behind a “sensitive content” filter on Twitter
The Wikipedia co-founder accused Twitter of censoring his post.
Leaked documents suggest that 1,000+ employees pressured Google to block Breitbart News from its ad network
This is the latest in a series of leaks highlighting Google’s anti-conservative bias.