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Google Closes Its AI Ethics Council After Facing Pressure From Employees to Remove Conservative Member
After the council was formed, employees immediately petitioned Google to remove conservative and Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James.
Android TV Update Include Puts Annoying Ads on the Homescreen
This channel was added with the latest Android home app update and will force users to see ads that they might not be interested in.
YouTube’s Content-ID Is Still Crazy, Crushing Music Education on YouTube
Overzealous YouTube algorithms often harm innocent content creators.
France Shoots Itself in the Foot, Gets Blocked on Twitter Because of Their Own Dumb “Fake News” Law
Facebook and Google are reported to have already complied with the law by updating their services in France – but not Twitter.
New Firefox Feature Is Designed to Make Websites Less Annoying
The main idea behind this experiment is to study how users interact with notifications and collect valuable data about types of notifications that should be blocked by default.
Google Stadia Product Manager Addresses the Privacy Issue of the “Online Only” Games Platform
As a user’s Stadia account is built on top of their Google account, it would be easy for Google to implement targeted advertising on the platform as a revenue stream.
Google Helps Law Enforcement by Handing Over Data Without a Warrant, EPIC Claims
The scanning involves the use of a proprietary algorithm to investigate files and data uploaded by their users.
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.
