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The Fastest-Growing Worldwide App TikTok Just Got Banned in India
They said the app was encouraging users to produce pornographic and otherwise elicit content.
Twitter Censors a Video That Criticizes Twitter for Censoring Content
Twitter has been under fire ever since they started banning mostly right-leaning public personalities and politicians on their platform.
European Council Passes Articles 11 and 13 of the EU Copyright Directive in Final Vote
19 countries backed the Directive, six voted against it, and three abstained. All EU member states will now be required to write the Directive into their national law by 2021.
TV Network Starz Uses Fake Copyright Claims to Censor Tweets and Criticism From TorrentFreak
Starz used false copyright claims to censor a tweet from TorrentFreak that was reporting on a Starz TV show being leaked online. TorrentFreak called out this censorship in a response article and Starz doubled down by using further bogus claims to censor this response article on Twitter.
Brazilian Conservative Comedian Danilo Gentili Sentenced to Almost 7 Months in Prison for a Social Media Post
Whether Gentili will appeal to courts of higher instances is unknown.
Facebook Suggests Admins of a Pro-Trump Facebook Group Should Fact-Check Every Post Their Members Make, or Face Consequences
Is Facebook really suggesting that they need to fact-check everything that’s uploaded to the group?
UK Political Commentator Carl Benjamin Announces UKIP MEP Campaign and Says He Will Work to Rescind Article 13
The political commentator also said he will challenge all manifestations of radical leftism as he finds them and expose them to the public via his YouTube channel so the public can see what EU officials are doing behind closed doors.
WikiLeaks’ 5 Most Shocking Revelations
By now, you’ve heard about WikiLeaks, the international non-profit organization that publishes secret information, news and classified data provided by anonymous sources and whistleblowers. It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange, and to this day there were many leaks that shook the world. On
The Julian Assange Indictment Attempts to Make Standard Investigative Journalistic Practice Look Suspicious
Their concerns is precisely that the process described in the charges represents a standard investigative practice employed by reporters, that is not illegal and should not be outlawed.
Facebook’s New “Click-Gap” Algorithm Will Censor Alternative Media and Help Mainstream Media Sites
The “Click-Gap” algorithm is live now and reduces the reach of content from domains that have a small number of inbound and outbound links.
The Pirate Bay, RARBG, 1337x, and More to Be Blocked in India
In other words, the court thinks that preventing access to “illegal content” does not contravene the principle of accessing and sharing online information without interference.
A New Russian Bill Could See the Start of Runet, Russia’s Own Private Internet, Cut Off From the World Wide Web
Moscow rejects the notion that their model is similar to China’s Great Firewall.
