hate speech
The EU Reminds Elon Musk About Its Censorship Laws
Clipping the bird’s wings.
Spotify Buys Company That Detects “Dangerous Misinformation” and “Harmful Content”
Part of its efforts to “ramp up platform safety.”
Report: Germany Has Charged or Punished Over 1,000 People for “Online Speech-Related Crimes” Since 2018
Dedicated units are seizing citizens’ devices and scouring social media for “insults.”
YouTube CEO Hypocrisy: Susan Wojcicki Says She Wants “as Much Free Speech as We Possibly Can”
From the head of a platform that censors millions of videos each year.
Facebook Announces Plot to “Protect” the 2022 Midterms
Facebook will censors posts “questioning the legitimacy” of the election and more.
YouTube Censors Journalists in Brazil Over “Hate Speech”
More overzealous censorship.
World Economic Forum Proposes AI to Automate Censorship of “Hate Speech” and “Misinformation”
Censorship against what it calls the “dark world of online harms.”
YouTube Bans Popular Channel, SteveWillDoIt
It had over 4 million subscribers.
Ireland Wants to Criminalize “Online Hateful Content”
A further threat to free speech.
UN Is Working With Tech, Media Companies, and States to Address “Misinformation” and “Hate Speech”
The Secretary-General admitted.
Hate “Expert” Dismisses Free Speech as a “Rallying Call for the Far-Right”
“I think it was really amplified by the emergence of the alt-right in particular.”