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Apple CEO Tim Cook says tech companies should accept responsibility for “hate speech”
Cook has previously said that what he deems to “hate” has no place on Apple’s platforms.
Facebook wants to create “a safe space for trustworthy news”
Facebook is more determined than ever to crack down on what’s allowed on the platform.
MailChimp has banned anti-vax newsletters
Many who have been censored on other platforms have turned to newsletters to get their message out. MailChimp wants to stop that.
Black Hat conference disinvites keynote speaker for his history of voting to restrict late-term abortions
The cyber security conference decided they no longer wanted their keynote speaker because of his pro-life perspective.
Charles Koch and George Soros team up with Patreon, Mozilla, Pinterest and more to stamp out “hate” online
The likes of the Koch brothers, have in the past, been accused of using their vast fortune to influence US politics, and they are now involving themselves in influencing the internet, as well, by ensuring it is more strictly policed for unwanted content. A broad alliance is being formed in the
Sudan has cut off access to the internet in order to squash protests
It follows a recent trend of trying to governments censoring protests using the internet.
Black Pigeon Speaks and Soph are back on YouTube
Their returns come in the wake of mass censorship across YouTube.
DOUBLE CENSORSHIP: Tim Pool’s YouTube video about Pinterest’s internal blacklists taken down
This follows Twitter and YouTube taking down other videos and tweets exposing Pinterest’s censorship.
How to be a “hate agent”, according to Facebook
Facebook has a list of criteria that it uses to determine if you’re a hate agent.
ThinkSpot is an upcoming communication platform that wants to be the “intellectual playground for censorship-free discourse”
A new platform is launching in response to the mass censorship and demonetization issues that have recently plagued the internet.
Hong Kong news outlet Apple Daily is under DDoS attack after protest coverage
It’s not the only platform to be attacked during the current protests.
Pinterest insider, Eric Cochran, who exposed internal blacklist speaks out – calls big tech companies “dark censorship bureaus”
Eric Cochran, the Pinterest insider who revealed that the company was censoring Christian, conservative, and pro-life content has spoken out on big tech’s attempts to suppress certain ideas.