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Andrew Yang is the only 2020 candidate accepting Bitcoin: “blockchain needs to be a big part of our future”
Other candidates have either not supported cryptocurrencies or have failed to mention them at all.
Ratings company Nielsen to start collecting podcasting data, as the medium is more popular than legacy media
Podcasts are becoming more popular than most radio stations and even prime-time TV shows.
President Trump says he’s “not a fan of Bitcoin”
Trump also said that if Facebook wants to become a bank with its Libra cryptocurrency, it must become subject to all banking regulations.
Live Action founder Lila Rose calls out Pinterest censorship in White House Social Media Summit speech
Live Action’s Pinterest account was deleted after an investigative report revealed that Pinterest was preventing its users from linking to Live Action content.
Italian court orders Cloudflare to stop providing services to piracy sites
Cloudflare doesn’t even host any content for the sites, yet the court orders to them to stop working with piracy websites.
Twitter launches soft censorship feature “hidden replies” – starting in Canada
The feature has been tested for some time, and now it’s about to roll out.
US tech companies are helping China monitor millions of its citizens, report shows
China has a history of oppression and a new report suggests US tech firms are profiting off of it.
Harmeet K. Dhillon slams social media censorship during speech at White House Social Media Summit
Dhillon also mentioned two of her clients, conservative writer David Horowitz and former Google engineer James Damore, during her speech and talked about the censorship and discrimination the tech giants have subjected them to.
President Trump considers retaliation against France’s new extra tax on US tech companies
France has approved a new 3% tax on the revenue of major US tech companies and President Trump isn’t happy.
Scotlands NHS health symptoms checker website is sharing data with Google and Facebook
The situation raises privacy concerns for people looking up medical symptoms.
Google responds to eavesdropping reports, admits humans listen to some audio recordings from Google Assistant
This follows Google’s previous claims that it doesn’t eavesdrop on Google Home and Google Assistant recordings.
German privacy officers says it’s illegal for schools to be using Microsoft Office 365
Arguments over data storage are becoming increasingly important in Europe.