Speech
Austria wants to remove anonymity online to combat, wants citizens to register their name, address and phone number in case they want to prosecute you for “hate speech”
Their identity, including names and addresses, will be known to media and social platforms, and by extension, to the authorities.
Senator Ted Cruz stumps Twitter rep during free speech hearing after asking him if he agrees with a quote from CEO Jack Dorsey on neutrality
Monje was asked multiple questions about Twitter’s political bias by Cruz but refused to answer any of them directly.
Google manually manipulates its search results, new report shows
The policy will prohibit pages with single answers to search inquiries taken directly from the open web.
Firefox rejects free speech, bans free speech commenting plugin Dissenter from its extensions gallery
Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, said that the extension had been disabled because it does not comply with Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy.
Trump has “Dark Knight” themed Twitter video blocked after Warner Bros. files copyright claim
This is the third time since February Trump has had his videos blocked on Twitter as the result of copyright claims.
The activist group that campaigned for the banning of Faith Goldy from Facebook now want Yellow Vest group banned
The Yellow Vest group are a group that originated in France, motivated by rising fuel prices, the high cost of living, and claims that a disproportionate burden of the government’s tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes.
T-Mobile blocks 22 “piracy” related websites, worries it’s now violating net neutrality rules
The company does not want to go against a court decision, but blocking these websites may break net neutrality.
Google quietly removes “sort by date” feature from search results
Many people used this feature to override Google Searches’ algorithmic recommendations and get date based view of the search results.
EU Terrorist Content Regulation law adopted by European Parliament Committee
The Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee adopted the regulations with 35 votes in favor, one vote against, and eight abstentions.
The EU’s Terrorist Content Regulation law is its latest badly-thought-out disaster
Some are suggesting, at this point, the EU should perhaps leave this internet, and “build its own.”
The big tech free speech hearing will be on April 10th, 2019; titled “Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse”
It is hard to deny that Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube look more and more like public platforms rather than “publishers” who can censor content however they want.
British activist Tommy Robinson banned from Snapchat
This follows Robinson’s YouTube channel being heavily shadowbanned earlier this week.