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UK to force platforms to remove content that’s “illegal on the street”
An Online Safety law is coming this year.
UK terror law reviewer says police should have power to demand access to someone’s phone, without judge signoff
More encroachment on rights.
Gender studies professor faces cancel mob after writing blog post about trans ideology
Hughes is facing calls to resign.
Biden is looking into federal digital vaccine passports
Will the US follow Europe and implement the privacy-invasive system?
German publisher caves to Beijing’s demands and censors kids coronavirus book
The Chinese government threatened legal action if it didn’t censor the part that suggested the coronavirus originated in China.
Intel introduces system to censor “offensive” video game chat in realtime
The system is now in beta.
Trans MMA fighter Fallon Fox demands Spotify cancel Joe Rogan’s show
Fox accuses of the world’s number 1 podcaster of making “transphobic” comments.
CloutHub asks lawmakers not to introduce laws that would cement the power of Big Tech and increase censorship
It is also back to hosting videos after being deplatformed by IBM.
University of Cincinnati refuses to renew contract of instructor who used the term “Chinese virus”
The professor was suspended and under investigation since last year.
Emboldened to censor world leaders, Facebook suspends Venezuela’s President Maduro
Facebook says Maduro posted coronavirus misinformation and temporarily locked him out.