Tactics that are used to silence online speech
? Even when content isn’t forcibly removed, there are many other means through which viewpoints and ideas can be censored.
A breakdown of the Democrats’ Big Tech antitrust report
We condense the report down to the main takeaways.
Google handed over to police data on everyone who searched for certain terms
While in this case they got the right guy, the practice raises privacy implications.
YouTube tests new warning on “potentially offensive” comments
Another attack on the comments section.
Anti-lockdown group The Mirror Project banned from PayPal
Financially cut off.
YouTube and Vimeo censor pro-life video, alleging to show hospital refusing care
Vimeo removed it under its “hate-based” rules.
Big Tech’s double standard on “conspiracy theories” when they come from mainstream media
? “Conspiracy theories” are fine when they come from the mainstream media.
YouTube and Facebook boost “authoritative sources” on news of President Trump’s COVID diagnosis
The move is supposedly to stop “conspiracy theories.”
Nikola silences YouTube and Twitter critics with a wave of copyright claims
Another large corporation uses YouTube’s copyright system to silence criticism.
Germany proposes tighter copyright reform that could increase the censorship of memes
The proposal gives internet users little recourse for challenging the takedown of their memes.
Google’s “pay to play” default browser auction makes it hard for privacy-friendly browsers to compete
Privacy-friendly browsers that don’t monetize user data can’t afford to compete.
Big Tech colludes on a common definition of “hate speech”
The new alliance promises to crack down on people’s speech in a more coordinated way.












