Creators
Mailchimp makes its censorship rules official, outlines right to ban users for “inaccurate” content
Customers who use Mailchimp in their business have a new arbiter of truth to contend with.
Transparency.tube categorizes YouTubers, brands them with political labels, and could be used as hitlist
YouTubers fear that in a time when the media call for certain groups to be censored, being smeared with a label could be a death blow for a channel.
RIAA is behind the takedown of popular YouTube ripping tools YouTube-dl and others
More DMCA abuse from the music industry.
Google Stadia Creative Director: Streamers should buy a license from developers and publishers to stream games
Streamers have been the driving force behind the success of several indie games. Under this proposal, they’d have to hand over a cut of their revenue to developers to stream games.
YouTube tests new warning on “potentially offensive” comments
Another attack on the comments section.
Facebook threatens to delete Steven Crowder’s page
His page with over three million followers could be wiped out.
Twitter deletes Trump COVID victory meme after copyright complaint
This isn’t the first time this has happened.
Student kicked out after attending virtual class with Trump flag in background
An increasing trend.
YouTube and Facebook boost “authoritative sources” on news of President Trump’s COVID diagnosis
The move is supposedly to stop “conspiracy theories.”
Nikola silences YouTube and Twitter critics with a wave of copyright claims
Another large corporation uses YouTube’s copyright system to silence criticism.
Project Veritas head James O’Keefe locked out of Twitter after his nine-month-old tweet is copyright claimed
Project Veritas has had its content restricted several times after copyright claims were filed on old tweets.
Germany proposes tighter copyright reform that could increase the censorship of memes
The proposal gives internet users little recourse for challenging the takedown of their memes.