British activist Tommy Robinson shadowbanned on YouTube after UK MPs lobbied for his removal
Robinson’s channel and videos have been scrubbed from YouTube search and recommendations. They can only be accessed via a direct link and are hidden behind an interstitial.
Some Google workers want Google to remove conservative Kay Coles James from an artificial intelligence ethics panel
They suggest that if James continues to be on the panel discrimination against marginalized groups will be implanted into the company’s artificial intelligence software.
Critics say Google is censoring VPN apps in China to “curry favor with Beijing”
Access to VPNs is of crucial importance to those in China who want to circumvent the restrictions imposed by the Great Firewall and reach the global internet.
The idea that YouTube recommendations are radicalizing people to the “right wing” is a myth perpetrated as a tactic to call for censorship
Many of these people make livings off of their right to free speech, yet Kevin Roose still insists that we ban them, just because he doesn’t like it?
Google is reportedly still working on its censored Chinese search engine Project Dragonfly
Internal Google sources have said that the company is performing closed performance reviews of Project Dragonfly and that management has committed to keeping the project secret.
The French Council of the Muslim Faith is suing Facebook and YouTube for not taking down the NZ shooting video fast enough
Many groups including the Islamic Association of New Zealand support the lawsuit.
Google’s AMP for Gmail is everything you never wanted, and a middle finger to the open standards of the internet
The future of internet looks like everything that it wasn’t supposed to be.
Australia wants tech companies to censor content even faster, doesn’t care that it’s technically impossible
Australia threatens tech companies with jail time.
“Google Unlocked” extension allows you to uncensor DMCA Google search links
The extension goes through Google’s massive Lumen Database listing legal complaints and takedown requests.
5 books for understanding the state of the internet in 2019
We’ve selected a few released and to-be-released books about the state of the internet today that would hopefully help you make sense of it and decide how you’re going to let internet affect your life from now on.
Top Hats and Champagne Bar YouTube channel shut down for unspecified “hate speech” violations
This comes days after YouTube shut down two other channels for violating its “hate speech” policies without providing any examples of their supposed violations.
New research shows biased Google search results potentially gave Democrats millions of additional votes in the 2018 U.S. midterms
The study found that Google was significantly more likely than Bing or Yahoo to show pro-Democrat stories and links at the top of the results page and that these biased search results could have handed up to 4.6 million votes to the Democrats.
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