Senator Hawley’s bill aims to end Big Tech censorship, but is likely to be challenged
The bill would allow users to sue Big Tech for $5,000 but has a few holes.
Google threatens to strip revenue from The Federalist after NBC News complaint
People see this as NBC lobbying Google, which has a monopoly on website advertising, to demonetize its competitors.
Over 70% of Americans won’t download any contact tracing app
Privacy fears are cited.
MembersHow the term “misinformation” has been weaponized as an online censorship tool amid the coronavirus pandemic
As the mainstream media increased its use of this term, Big Tech companies expanded their aggressive “coronavirus misinformation” policies.
Coronavirus lockdowns have decimated small businesses, but Big Tech is booming
The havoc that multi-month lockdowns have wreaked on economies around the world is only starting to become apparent and will take a long time to be fully understood, but not everyone is emerging as a loser from this unprecedented crisis. There’s been a massive transfer of wealth from small busi
New bill could get Big Tech to support free speech and privacy or lose liability protections
The bill could arrive as early as this month.
YouTube is automatically deleting any comments about “black lives matter violence”
Users who comment about violence at Black Lives Matter protests have their comments automatically put into a black hole.
YouTube removed 100,000 videos under its controversial “hate speech” and “harassment” rules last quarter
These rules have decimated commentary, comedy, criticism and many other popular YouTube genres.
YouTube says indie creators are 20x less likely to top corona search results than “high authority channels”
YouTube has previously admitted that users don’t like “authoritative” sources yet it continues propping them up in search.
YouTube simultaneously bans videos about flouting social distancing rules, yet boosts protest videos
YouTube has given an update on the impact of its controversial new rules.
Google proposes internal changes, remove any gendered language and terms such as “blacklist” from code
The proposals had been made a while back and are this week getting new attention.
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