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Ad-blocker AdGuard struggles with Google’s extension rules
Google’s core business is ads. Its new API changes curb the power of ad-blockers.
Facebook deletes group that used carrot emojis as code for the vaccine after BBC complains
Groups with over 100,000 followers shut down.
Members
Breastfeeding clothing company loses revenue after sudden Facebook ban
Facebook’s censors shut down the company’s ads account.
Taliban set to ban TikTok and video game PUBG
After already banning many forms of media.
Esports founder G2 Carlos to take leave of absence after being seen with Andrew Tate in video
G2 Carlos faced calls to resign after online outrage.
Rumble, creating tech that is immune to cancel culture, goes public
Rumble went live under the new ticker “RUM” on Nasdaq today.
Amazon to assist the EU with a digital Euro trial
One of five companies getting involved.
DHS to spend almost $700,000 of taxpayers’ cash on studying “extremism” in video gaming
The DHS has a recent trend of projects targeting tech and the internet.
Canada’s proposed online streaming bill raises privacy concerns, commissioner admits
As an aside to the concerns about suppressing independent content.
Parler restructures, purchases cloud hosting company Dynascale
A new acquisition.
Court upholds Texas’ anti-censorship social media law
The case will likely go to The Supreme Court.