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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.
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.
