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White House: We support social media platforms reducing “hate speech”
Another pro-censorship statement from the Biden White House.
YouTube deletes Ford Fischer’s newsworthy footage of crowd reacting to Trump speech, calls it “spam”
More bias with how YouTube treats news agencies.
Google reinstates decentralized chat app Element after sudden ban
A federated alternative to Google’s own Hangouts and Duo Android apps got suspended from the Play Store without explanation on Saturday. Element (previously known as Riot.im) is one of the clients, and a popular one, for Matrix, a federated open source messaging protocol. Judging by the comment
UK terror police: online privacy is “putting lives at risk”
End-to-end encryption, which tech companies implement in their products and services to keep them safe and secure for their users, are a constant target of certain segments of law enforcement apparatuses in various countries. This time it was the turn of UK’s anti-terrorist “cyber police” chief
China is jailing Twitter users for posts critical of the Chinese Communist Party
Twitter is banned in China.
Facebook censors anti-lockdown group Save Our Rights UK, backed by British lawmaker
Facebook removed the videos under its coronavirus “misinformation” rules.
New UK law allows police to access data of people who are self-isolating
Civil liberties are being crushed.
YouTube deletes videos of doctors testifying in Senate Homeland Committee as “coronavirus misinformation”
The video was uploaded by Senator Ron Johnson.
Senator Elizabeth Warren sides with hedge funds, calls for SEC to investigate Reddit
Warren is questioning whether online conversations about stocks violate existing securities laws.