Speech
Conservative commentator suddenly Faith Goldy banned from Airbnb
Social media and tech companies big and small have of late discovered a blunt tool called “deplatforming,” and they like to use it.
Conservatives call on tech giants to cut ties with the biased and disgraced SPLC
Bozell argues the group is extremely biased, abusing the powerful status and role given to it by these companies to silence political and ideological opponents, rather than promote fair and responsible speech.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg vows to police “harmful content and hate speech” with AI and 30,000 content reviewers
This follows previous statements from the company indicating that it will be using AI to combat “hate.”
Google closes its AI ethics council after facing pressure from employees to remove conservative member
After the council was formed, employees immediately petitioned Google to remove conservative and Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James.
Help Scout suddenly cuts off service for free speech social media platform Gab, leaving Gab users with error pages
The ban caused Gab’s help and FAQ pages to be taken down and left Gab’s 800,000+ users unable to access any support pages.
France shoots itself in the foot, gets blocked on Twitter because of their own dumb “fake news” law
Facebook and Google are reported to have already complied with the law by updating their services in France – but not Twitter.
Project Veritas Strikes Again: Hidden camera video shows Twitter developer saying how algorithms are written to shadowban conservative voices
It seems that one of the methods used by Twitter to determine which types of speech are permitted on the platform is equating conservative users to bots.
Brett Easton Ellis slams “hysterical” language policing and jumping to judgements on Twitter
Considering the impact of the platform, concerns voiced by Ellis and many other prominent public figures are more than justified.
How there’s a chance Article 13 could still be stopped
Much hope hinges on Sweden and Germany.
British activist Tommy Robinson shadowbanned on YouTube after UK MPs lobbied for his removal
Robinson’s channel and videos have been scrubbed from YouTube search and recommendations. They can only be accessed via a direct link and are hidden behind an interstitial.
Some Google workers want Google to remove conservative Kay Coles James from an artificial intelligence ethics panel
They suggest that if James continues to be on the panel discrimination against marginalized groups will be implanted into the company’s artificial intelligence software.
For a while, when some Twitter users tried to follow the pro-life @UnplannedMovie account, Twitter automatically unfollowed them
The most prominent person so far that has experienced this problem is US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.