YouTube says rule exceptions are made with content from some politicians
YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki spoke at The Atlantic Festival.
Senator Hawley calls on the FTC to release Google 2012 antitrust violation details
“The report provides evidence that Google was deceiving consumers before 2012, and the recent fines levied against Google suggest that Google never stopped,” Hawley writes.
Boris Johnson warns about Google surveillance, says smart tech could rein “oppressively over the human race”
Johnson’s speech was designed and delivered at the UN with the aim of securing international coordination in controlling and regulating new technologies in a thoughtful and “balanced” manner, reporters surmised from his address.
Google blocks pro-privacy motion at World Wide Web Consortium
One paragraph said PING could ask the W3C to give it the power to block any projects that the group felt undermined user privacy.
YouTubers hit with security breaches and account takeovers
Phishing Tackle’s CEO James Houghton, who stressed that regardless of the complexity and the coordinated nature of the attack, it was humans and their poor judgment, digital security-wise, that allowed it to happen.
YouTube’s anti-conspiracy algorithm has boosted legacy media at the expense of YouTubers
Independent creators are consistently drawing the short end of the stick.
Tulsi: Tech giants against free speech is “a danger to us all”
Gabbard pointed out that the fact Google didn’t hesitate to suspend the account of a member of Congress and a presidential candidate, means that “regular” people and their right to free speech are just as endangered – if with fewer resources to protect themselves.
YouTuber CGP Grey YouTube account suspended
“Your access to this Google product has been suspended, because of a perceived violation of either the Google Terms of Service or product-specific Terms of Service.”
Major game modding channel MxR Mods loses YouTube partnership and gets demonetized
Henry Liang, who owns one of the largest and consistently popular modding channels on YouTube, MxR Mods, has received an email from YouTube announcing that they’re removing the channel from the partnership program and demonetizing the entire channel.
EU free speech vs right to be forgotten case to be heard next week
In this case, Richard Cumbley of law firm Linklaters told Reuters, it would “create a serious clash with US concepts of freedom of speech, and other states might also try and suppress search results on a global basis reducing Google’s search engine to a list of the anodyne and inoffensive.”
EFF warns that frantic push to crush “extremist” speech online will hurt innocent users
Hard questions are being asked about the way content is treated and censored online by some of the world’s most powerful platforms.
Congress drafts bill to create “national commission” for online content removal
The bill calls for a “federal social media task force to coordinate the government’s response to such issues.”
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