Culture
Surfshark pulls sponsorship of news outlet over tweet
Surfshark claimed that media freedom is one of its “core values” as it canceled the sponsorship.
Australian Chief Health Officer says contact tracing is part of “New World Order”
Australia has already implemented some of the world’s strictest COVID measures.
Writer Christopher Rufo was unverified on Twitter after exposing controversial Google employee trainings
Twitter has yet to respond.
Winston Churchill Foundation Trust backtracks after removing Churchill photos from its website
The “Winston Churchill” name will also be removed and replaced with just “Churchill Fellowship.”
US Constitution gets a trigger warning on the National Archives website
At least one member of Congress has condemned the decision.
China’s Weibo suspends 22 K-pop accounts
To “regulate community order.”
Game developer Tripwire parts ways with CEO John Gibson after pro-life tweet
Canceled over one tweet from his personal account.
Edinburgh computer science students banned from using popular coding names “Alice and Bob” for being “too Western”
And default terms “master” and “slave” are also banned.
Malta: 20 citizens face “hate speech” sentences for Facebook comments about violent attack perpetrators
The sentences ranged from fines to jail time.
Middlesbrough’s Marc Bola charged with “aggravated” misconduct for social media post he made as a child
For a post back in 2012 when he was 14-years-old.
“LGBT” websites remain blocked throughout the world
From Russia to Indonesia.