Culture
Authoritarian: Scottish man arrested over offensive tweet
A story that you may have expected to come out of China has actually come out of Scotland.
Facebook bans ads for Carrie Gress book on damaging feminism
Facebook won’t comment on the issue.
Organized cancel group seeks to financially damage news channel GB News before it even launched
A pre-emptive cancel attempt.
University of Tennessee sued for expelling student over Cardi-B-style social media posts
Colleges have a recent habit of trying to police social media posts.
Sia apologizes to Twitter activists after calls for her new “ableist” movie Music to be canceled
Activists want to prevent the movie from being shown.
Canada to use controversial Supreme Court “hate speech” decision as the basis for “online hate” laws
The future of censorship.
Pro Trump brand Covfefe Coffee blacklisted by Chase Bank payment processor
Increasingly common.
PolitiFact editor says people should lose email accounts over harassment
Losing an email account would also lock people out of all of their other online accounts.
Free speech exception to Scottish “hate crime” bill withdrawn after backlash from SNP members
Some SNP members threatened to quit over the free speech amendment.
UK: 4-year-old referred to anti-extremism group after mentioning Fortnite “guns and bombs”
A threat to free speech.
