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Medium appears to suspend a user’s account over mental health article
@KANTBOT20K had their post suspended soon after publishing the article.
Apple awarded “King” of customer support, but its online support forums have been accused of censorship
Users have been banned from Apple support forums for telling the truth.
Child labor laws never anticipated the YouTube and “influencer” era
Children are being put to work on YouTube and Instagram.
Facebook’s FTC fine could be much higher than the reported $3-5 billion
Although $3 billion is a considerable amount of money, it pales in comparison to other fines issued by the FTC.
Tik Tok’s removal then return to the App Store in India shows how the App Store increasingly controls the internet
App-stores acting like border control, governments censoring users, on apps that impose “content filters” while covertly harvesting our data.
The Algorithmic Accountability Act will give tech companies the seemingly impossible task of assessing bias in algorithms
A purely legislative initiative is never going to be enough – strong engagement with the tech industry and the people involved is necessary for the measures to work efficiently.
Podcast app Luminary is using bad practices with the way it handles free and open podcast feeds
Taking the original MP3 from the show creator’s hosting company and rehosting it on their own network can be seen as a copyright infringement.
Joe Rogan Experience requests to be removed from new walled-garden podcasts app Luminary
The Joe Rogan podcast is snubbing the closed nature of the new VC-backed app.
Twitch wrongly suspends streamer TF Blade for using the “N-word”. He didn’t.
Twitch somehow thought the streamer, who had no prior offenses, used a racial slur during a stream. However, he didn’t. Twitch won’t correct their mistake.
Weedcraft Inc is facing YouTube censorship issues
The game soon hit the wall of YouTube’s and Facebook’s “aggressive policing.”
Twitter wants users to report “misleading election tweets” – what could go wrong?
Twitter uses will be able to report tweets that it feels are misleading during election periods.
Amazon staff can tie your Alexa recordings to your home address, new investigation shows
Amazon staff can use location data to link your voice recording to your home address.