Speech
French government announces new plans for policing “hate speech” on big social media platforms
The continued encroachment on online free speech never ends.
Facebook removes Michelle Malkin’s post featuring Laura Loomer and Gavin McInnes for supposedly violating its community standards
Facebook now seems to be actively prohibiting mentioning or posting images of banned individuals.
Amazon’s support of censorship-resistant “domain fronting” is likely going to end
Amazon are responding to pressures from Russia and China.
Andrew Torba is one of the few people actually doing something about preserving free speech online
It’s easy to talk but not so easy to act.
Conservative actor James Woods quits Twitter until its “coward” CEO Jack Dorsey allows free speech on the platform
Woods is the latest high profile conservative voice to call Twitter out for its censorship.
The company behind Adblock Plus just backed Factmata, another fact-checking company that wants to profit on being arbiters of truth
Entrepreneurs want to get rich from deciding what’s true.
Microsoft Word will automatically correct your sentences to a woke alternative
Software now wants to correct what you say before you say it.
Twitter suspends three more high profile conservative accounts with 400,000+ followers
CC, Carpe Donktum, and Nick Monroe have all been locked out of their Twitter accounts as big tech continues to purge conservatives from social media.
Bounding Into Comics page with over 250,000 followers banned by Facebook
Bounding Into Comics believes its page has been censored because it calls out anti-Republican and anti-Trump comments from high profile figures in the entertainment industry.
Polish drug treatment group is suing Facebook for free speech violations after they suspended its page
It seems it’s not just the US that is tired with Facebook’s movement against free speech.
The UK police are investigating political candidate Carl Benjamin for an online joke
This is the latest in a series of UK police investigations into offensive online comments this year.
@AOCPress parody Twitter account suspended by Twitter, even though it didn’t break the rule Twitter claims it did
The account was marked as a parody.