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UK YouTube chief says government regulation could lead to censorship on the platform
Perhaps YouTube thinks it should be the ones to decide what’s allowed and that the government should stay away?
Australia’s draconian anti-encryption laws mean device makers blacklist Australian telecoms firms
Telecoms giant Telstra has made a plea to the government, showing them the harmful effects the law is having on their business.
Kazakhstan government starts intercepting all HTTPS internet traffic inside the country
The Kazakhstan government previously tried and failed to start intercepting all HTTPS internet traffic in 2015 but abandoned its plans after facing lawsuits.
Facebook’s shadowbanning process is now patented
Many have thought that Facebook has been shadowbanning for a while. Now it’s official.
YouTube is demonetizing second amendment YouTube channels
According to channels affected, YouTube is demonetizing them even thought they haven’t broken any community rules.
Tech giant Microsoft launches new electronic voting system called ElectionGuard
Soon big tech could be directly involved in elections.
G7 nations outline plans for “urgent” taxes on big tech
The seven nations think tech companies need to be taxed more in order to be controlled.
UK lawmakers call for police to stop using face recognition tech
The news comes as the Home Secretary called for increased testing of face recognition technology to fight crime.
Infowars attorney responds to Senator Blumenthal’s calls to censor Alex Jones from YouTube search
This comes after Senator Blumenthal pressed a Google representative on why the company wasn’t doing more to censor Jones and Infowars from YouTube search.
59% of registered voters (including GOP, DEM and Indie) think tech company bias is a problem
The results showed that both sides of the political spectrum are concerned about censorship.
After 16-months of censorship, social media access is back online in Chad
Now that the president has been offered a long term in office, the internet has been switched back on.
After browsers banned 3rd party tracking, publishers are switching to tracking you themselves
Publishers are building their own 1st party solutions to track you now browsers have blocked cross platform tracking.