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Medium appears to suspend a user’s account over mental health article
@KANTBOT20K had their post suspended soon after publishing the article.
Facebook’s new methods for policing EU election misinformation often spread misleading information and suppress truthful information
Facebook’s changes promote mainstream media sites, suppress alternative media, and allow biased and misleading political information to spread on the platform.
Apple awarded “King” of customer support, but its online support forums have been accused of censorship
Users have been banned from Apple support forums for telling the truth.
Tik Tok’s removal then return to the App Store in India shows how the App Store increasingly controls the internet
App-stores acting like border control, governments censoring users, on apps that impose “content filters” while covertly harvesting our data.
Twitch wrongly suspends streamer TF Blade for using the “N-word”. He didn’t.
Twitch somehow thought the streamer, who had no prior offenses, used a racial slur during a stream. However, he didn’t. Twitch won’t correct their mistake.
Weedcraft Inc is facing YouTube censorship issues
The game soon hit the wall of YouTube’s and Facebook’s “aggressive policing.”
Twitter wants users to report “misleading election tweets” – what could go wrong?
Twitter uses will be able to report tweets that it feels are misleading during election periods.
Russian man fined for “disrespecting authorities” on social media
Just as it happens in the west, possibly more, censorship and freedom of speech are hot topics in modern Russia
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey met President Trump, discussed the “health” of the platform
Conservatives have long since believed that their views are being suppressed on Twitter
UK IPS don’t like that Google is about to make censoring more difficult for them
The new encrypted DNS technology in Chrome could make it harder for service providers to block websites.
The word “Leica” is now censored in Chinese social app Weibo after Tiananmen Square video
China doesn’t like that a Leica advert featured the Tiananmen Square protests.
Ivan, free speech advocate, returns to Twitter and demands answers
On April 19th, Ivan announced his return to Twitter under an account called @Det_Disp.