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Twitter’s silences its own users to appease advertisers
Twitter wants to keep advertisers interested and implement more and more solutions to make the speech as toothless as possible.
EU Terrorist Content Regulation law adopted by European Parliament Committee
The Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee adopted the regulations with 35 votes in favor, one vote against, and eight abstentions.
r/Piracy deletes 10 years of posts after Reddit Legal threatens to ban the subreddit
Reddit Legal said that the subreddit was generating too many copyright infringement notices and would be banned if it didn’t address the problem, despite claims that many of these notices were false.
Paying for news doesn’t necessarily stop tracking, in fact you may be tracked even more
Some of the biggest media organizations in the world seem determined to have their tracking cookies, and eat your data and your money, too: namely, they are revealed to be collecting both subscription fees, and personal data from their readers.
The EU’s Terrorist Content Regulation law is its latest badly-thought-out disaster
Some are suggesting, at this point, the EU should perhaps leave this internet, and “build its own.”
The big tech free speech hearing will be on April 10th, 2019; titled “Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse”
It is hard to deny that Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube look more and more like public platforms rather than “publishers” who can censor content however they want.
British activist Tommy Robinson banned from Snapchat
This follows Robinson’s YouTube channel being heavily shadowbanned earlier this week.
AI expert slams Google for caving to the mob
She berated Google for failing to communicate its decision to pull the plug before axing the board.
Netflix cancels support for Apple’s AirPlay feature, with some suggesting it’s a tactical move in the upcoming streaming war
Apple fans are somewhat suspicious that Netflix has decided to end support for AirPlay a couple of weeks after Apple announced their own competing TV streaming service Apple TV Plus.
Brunei hotels hide social media pages after facing online backlash for anti-LGBT laws
The pages were hidden after hotel staff started to receive personal abuse following the introduction of strict Islamic Sharia laws which make homosexuality punishable by stoning to death.
Conservative commentator suddenly Faith Goldy banned from Airbnb
Social media and tech companies big and small have of late discovered a blunt tool called “deplatforming,” and they like to use it.
Facebook used email passwords to harvest contact data from its users
Facebook was criticized for asking for passwords to user email accounts but this “feature” was actually being used to scoop up contact data from user’s email accounts.