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British men arrested, investigated for “hate crime” after staged George Floyd murder Snapchat post
Police believing the content is a crime raises alarms about a lack of free expression in the UK, no matter how distasteful and unpleasant the content may be.
Facebook struggles to quash accusations of bias as employees protest over Trump’s statements not being deleted
Some Facebook employees want Facebook to censor the President’s statements.
Internet Archive sued over National Emergency Library
Publishers think they should be paid license fees.
FCC Commissioner says Big Tech needs to be held accountable if they don’t stick to their terms of service
Carr suggests that the FTC should look into Big Tech companies failing to apply their terms of service fairly.
Facebook apologizes after “automated tools” mark baker’s pie as “adult content,” suspends account
Don’t leave your business in the hands of an algorithm.
Facebook, quite literally, wants to hear your thoughts
Facebook has a new patent for “subvocalized speech recognition glasses.”
Google hit with 1M+ false DMCA complaints from someone pretending to be Netflix
The DMCA process is too easy to abuse.
Australian lawmaker labels TikTok a tool for Chinese government to collect data those outside of China
Hastie is not the first to make the allegations.
Google Voice Typing censors phrases about Falun Gong, a practice persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party
Google-owned YouTube was recently caught deleting comments that criticized the Chinese government.
How Big Tech employees feel about Trump being censored, free speech on platforms
Here are a results of a survey.
Is Facebook about to censor on behalf of the Singapore government again?
The government has ordered Facebook to censor a news outlet’s Facebook page and Facebook usually complies.
Straggling journos target Twitch with old-news accusations of corona conspiracies
We’re not out of the zone of lazy journalism just yet.