hate speech
Twitch Apparently Banned a User for “Hate Speech” for Having the Name “Trump” in His Username
An email explaining the ban D_Trump_Apprentice69 received from Twitch said that the account was suspended indefinitely for picking an inappropriate username.
UK: Two Anti-Brexit CUK Party Candidates Step Down After Controversial Tweets Surface
Members of the pro-EU party made disparaging remarks about European citizens.
Popular UK News Outlet Politicalite Has Facebook Page Shut Down
Politicalite UK writes that Facebook informed them their page had been “unpublished” – leaving the media outlet unable to reach 40,000 followers it had amassed on the global social media platform.
Facebook Is Finding It Impossible to Police Content Due to so Many Global Languages
The company points out that machine learning requires very large data sets – that are unavailable in many languages.
This Spongebob Meme Is Banned on Facebook for “Hate Speech”
Facebook’s upload filter is automatically punishing Facebook users for uploading a harmless Spongebob Squarepants meme.
The Rightful Backlash Against the Latest Wave of Anti-Speech Laws
Panic and hysteria spiral even the best of us out of control
Twitter Finally Drops the Once-Respected SPLC, That Waged Campaigns Against Free Speech
Twitter finally saw the light.
Austria Wants to Remove Anonymity Online to Combat, Wants Citizens to Register Their Name, Address and Phone Number in Case They Want to Prosecute You for “Hate Speech”
Their identity, including names and addresses, will be known to media and social platforms, and by extension, to the authorities.
The Activist Group That Campaigned for the Banning of Faith Goldy From Facebook Now Want Yellow Vest Group Banned
The Yellow Vest group are a group that originated in France, motivated by rising fuel prices, the high cost of living, and claims that a disproportionate burden of the government’s tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes.
Twitter’s Silences Its Own Users to Appease Advertisers
Twitter wants to keep advertisers interested and implement more and more solutions to make the speech as toothless as possible.
Facebook Paid the Daily Telegraph to Publish Positive Articles About Itself
While Business Insider calls reaching for “sponsored content” a “novel solution” – it really isn’t
Sabotaging Posts With Hateful and Violent Comments Is the Latest Tactic People Are Using to Get Accounts They Don’t Like Shut Down
More appropriately referred to as internet trolls, we have armies of people infiltrating the comment sections of social media posts and making a whole series of racist, derogative posts in efforts to stir up controversy for the publisher of that post.