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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supports Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up big tech
AOC described Facebook is “communications, advertising, and surveillance platform”.
Australian report reveals the problems with email tracking in political campaigns
Email tracking is on the rise.
Spotify introduces new ads that listen out for your voice
Ads aren’t just tracking you, they’re now listening to you.
PornHub wants to buy Tumblr
Tumblr’s traffic tanked when they banned porn. PornHub is considering buying it to restore it to how it was before.
Facebook is working on its own cryptocurrency
Facebook is getting into payments.
Snoop Dogg slams Facebook censorship in a rant on Instagram
Big tech companies have been enforcing unnecessary moral policing through which they are suppressing freedom of speech.
Tutanota launches Secure Connect – an encrypted contact form that facilitates secure, confidential communication between journalists and whistleblowers
The open source contact form can be easily added to any news site for free and allows people to anonymously send end-to-end encrypted messages and files to website representatives.
Court hearing for Redditor’s right to anonymity set to take place on Monday
A religious organization’s attempt to blatantly misuse the copyright laws for reaching their ends.
Facebook bans sharing and linking to Infowars content
Users who attempt to share Infowars content will be censored unless they explicitly condemn the content.
Journalism institute tries to get 29 Conservative news websites blacklisted
Breitbart, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Washington Examiner are among those named as “unreliable,”
Facebook will now ban you based on who you associate with
Reports from The Verge and The Washington Post say that Facebook is now banning people for interacting with individuals that it labels as “hate figures” and terminating accounts based on user’s offline behavior.
Golden is a new Wikipedia competitor, determined to fix the problems Wikipedia creates
It’s not perfect but the more competition in this space the better.