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Piracy of Gone with the Wind, Fawlty Towers, Little Britain surges by over 10x after being censored
Concerns are rising over cancel culture being used as an excuse to edit and erase historical works.
MembersHow the term “misinformation” has been weaponized as an online censorship tool amid the coronavirus pandemic
As the mainstream media increased its use of this term, Big Tech companies expanded their aggressive “coronavirus misinformation” policies.
Devin Nunes’ attempt to censor “cow” parody account, instead gave it 700,000 more followers
Trying to censor a parody account was met with the Streisand effect.
Coronavirus lockdowns have decimated small businesses, but Big Tech is booming
The havoc that multi-month lockdowns have wreaked on economies around the world is only starting to become apparent and will take a long time to be fully understood, but not everyone is emerging as a loser from this unprecedented crisis. There’s been a massive transfer of wealth from small busi
Cenokga, game developer of Starclaw, apologizes after threatening DMCA abuse to silence negative review
Another example of the DMCA being abused for censorship.
New bill could get Big Tech to support free speech and privacy or lose liability protections
The bill could arrive as early as this month.
GitHub to ditch coding terms “master” and “slave” amid protests
GitHub follows other tech companies in the move.
Chinese activists detained for archiving censored coronavirus articles to be tried as criminals
Chen Mei and Cai Wei have been detained for weeks for archiving articles the Chinese Communist Party didn’t want people to see.
YouTube is automatically deleting any comments about “black lives matter violence”
Users who comment about violence at Black Lives Matter protests have their comments automatically put into a black hole.
Facebook apologizes for censoring photo of aboriginal people in chains, then does it again
Facebook’s censorship is affecting journalism on the subject.
The vindication of Zero Hedge
Twitter has reinstated the popular news outlet.