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Former Mozilla executive: Google repeatedly stabbed us in the back
Mozilla and Google’s relationship soon soured.
Fake Amazon reviews often turn bad items into 4 or 5-star products
Many Amazon reviews are fake.
Twitter censors a video that criticizes Twitter for censoring content
Twitter has been under fire ever since they started banning mostly right-leaning public personalities and politicians on their platform.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fans are starting a new “Netflix for socialists”
The money would then be used to fund the new Means TV service on Kickstarter by the end of the year, or in early 2020.
Apple News+ is off to a shaky start, new reports show
“They’re basically playing favorites. It always seems to be good for the big guys, but not for the rest of us.”
Microsoft’s email breach is worse than was first reported
It’s now been revealed that email content was in fact, readable to hackers – at least in some cases.
European Council passes Articles 11 and 13 of the EU Copyright Directive in final vote
19 countries backed the Directive, six voted against it, and three abstained. All EU member states will now be required to write the Directive into their national law by 2021.
TV network Starz uses fake copyright claims to censor tweets and criticism from TorrentFreak
Starz used false copyright claims to censor a tweet from TorrentFreak that was reporting on a Starz TV show being leaked online. TorrentFreak called out this censorship in a response article and Starz doubled down by using further bogus claims to censor this response article on Twitter.
The hotel industry didn’t get the memo on privacy
The hotel and travel industry is one of the most invasive.
Facebook’s shareholders are attempting to fire Mark Zuckerberg
The last year has seen the social network involved in a series of scandals.
Lobbyists for Google and Amazon smacked down a bill that would have stopped devices spying on you
US citizens just lost yet another piece of its right to privacy, once again in favor of the big corporations.
Brazilian conservative comedian Danilo Gentili sentenced to almost 7 months in prison for a social media post
Whether Gentili will appeal to courts of higher instances is unknown.