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Twitter suspends a bunch of Antifa accounts
The accounts had over 70,000 followers.
New Christian fundraising platform aims to remedy censorship on other crowdfunding platforms
LifeFunder has already had some successful early campaigns.
UK says Big Tech is “manipulating lives” launches investigation into its algorithms
Algorithms also reduce competition and harm consumers, a UK watchdog says.
YouTube scrubs thousands of dislikes from Joe Biden videos on official White House channel
YouTube’s actions temporarily reduced the dislike-to-like ratio by more than 6x on some videos.
Study says Big Tech billionaires are motivated by pushing their view of democracy and meritocracy
The study concludes they’re in a “class of their own.”
Judge denies Parler’s request to be reinstated by Amazon
Parler was hoping to be temporarily reinstated by the web hosting giant.
New rule banning financial services from dropping clients for political reasons is at risk under Biden
The Biden administration is likely to drop the rushed rule designed to prevent deplatforming.
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo breaks records
Over 100 million searches per day.
Twitter sued for not removing images of child sex abuse
Twitter is accused of hypocrisy for often censoring speech but saying that the child abuse videos didn’t violate community standards.
Private and Encrypted Email Providers
Society has become even more dependent on online communications such as email and messaging services and email is of the most important aspects of our online life because it’s the address that links most of our accounts; it’s what we use to get logins and collect receipts. Access to our email
Congresswoman Tlaib leads calls for recent Capitol breach not to lead to increased tech surveillance of citizens
There is at least some support against the the incident being used to curtail civil liberties.