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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.
Facebook Says More AI Based Censorship Will Be Coming to the Platform in the Future
Facebook suggested it will start using applied experimental audio-based technology and proactive detection technology to take down content.
New Study Finds Top Rated Android Health Apps Are Sharing Data With Amazon, Google, and Facebook
Amazon and Google received the highest volume of data from these health apps followed by Microsoft.
Fake YouTube Copyright Claims Used to Censor Tim Pool, Lauren Chen, and Others
Live Nation Video network filed false copyright claims against Pool, Chen, Ready To Glare, and Omegon which suppressed their criticism of Desmond the drag kid.
Google Will Let Android Users in Europe Choose Their Browser After Being Fined $1.7 Billion on Antitrust Grounds
Last year, the EC hit Google with a record 4.34 billion euro fine, also on antitrust grounds – and that came hot on the heels of a 2.4 billion euro penalty announced the previous year.
A Google Photos Bug Exposed User Locations on the Web
Imperva security researcher Ron Masas’ proof-of-concept showed that the photos’ metadata could be discovered by taking advantage of the flaw.
