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Critics say Google is censoring VPN apps in China to “curry favor with Beijing”
Access to VPNs is of crucial importance to those in China who want to circumvent the restrictions imposed by the Great Firewall and reach the global internet.
Sabotaging posts with hateful and violent comments is the latest tactic people are using to get accounts they don’t like shut down
More appropriately referred to as internet trolls, we have armies of people infiltrating the comment sections of social media posts and making a whole series of racist, derogative posts in efforts to stir up controversy for the publisher of that post.
r/Games goes full SJW and closes down the entire subreddit as part of a humorless April Fools’ statement
r/Games is one of the biggest video game related subreddits and the decision to use April Fools’ to push SJW politics in this subreddit is not being well received.
The idea that YouTube recommendations are radicalizing people to the “right wing” is a myth perpetrated as a tactic to call for censorship
Many of these people make livings off of their right to free speech, yet Kevin Roose still insists that we ban them, just because he doesn’t like it?
Article 13 and Article 11 passed – so what now?
Articles 11 and 13 of the Directive (commonly known as “the link tax” and “the upload filter”) have drawn much resistance and criticism from government officials, legal professionals, content creators, and internet users.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hints that more censorship is coming to the platform
In an open letter, Sandberg promised the company would be restricting who can use Facebook Live, using better technology to take down more content, and taking a more aggressive stance against what it deems to be “hate” in the wake of the New Zealand mass shootings.
The EU’s Rapid Alert System that shares info about “fake news” between member states is now in action
The European Commission has also enlisted help from “independent fact-checkers and researchers to detect and expose disinformation campaigns across social networks.
The implementation of the UK porn ID system is going badly
The quandary now proving difficult to resolve and making it harder to implement the idea.
Twitter temporarily suspended the account of pro-life movie “Unplanned” during its opening weekend
Twitter is constantly being accused of being biased against conservatives
European lawmakers lied when they said that the Article 13 “upload filter” was just a myth
They changed their tune as soon as the vote was passed.
Google is reportedly still working on its censored Chinese search engine Project Dragonfly
Internal Google sources have said that the company is performing closed performance reviews of Project Dragonfly and that management has committed to keeping the project secret.
Russia orders 10 leading VPNs to comply with its list of banned sites
Russia has threatened to restrict access to 10 leading non-Russian VPNs if they don’t block certain sites.