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Google takes aim at QAnon apps
Why the sudden crackdown?
Court rules feds need warrant to look at your phone’s lockscreen
The court ruled it’s protected by the Fourth Amendment.
US Big Tech companies continue to work with blacklisted Chinese companies, power human rights violations
Research shows companies aren’t adhering to the blacklist.
Joe Rogan opposes YouTube’s censorship of doctors, “let people discuss and debate”
“I don’t think it’s a healthy way to handle things.”
CASIO files DMCA complaint against user who hacked calculator to connect to the internet
The Github project has been suspended.
Trump reportedly plans new commission to deal with social media platforms’ restriction of free speech
**Situation-monitoring intensifies**
US Copyright Office proposes stripping YouTube of some of its DMCA safe harbor protections
The Copyright Office suggested that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm “may go beyond what Congress intended” when establishing the DMCA’s safe harbor protections.
VPN use surges in Hong Kong as threat of new “security” law looms
The new law is likely to pass, and Hongkongers want to be prepared.
Bangladesh’s Digital Security Act is being used to suppress free speech, jail journalists
Journalists and activists who criticize the government are being detained.
Facebook bans users from linking to YouTube alternative Brighteon after it hosted Judy Mikovits Plandemic doc
Facebook says linking to the site violates its “Community Standards.”
YouTube censors video discussing the platform’s censorship of Professor Dolores Cahill interview
The video announcing how YouTube deleted the previous video has itself now been deleted.
Reddit’s UFO subreddit was auto-censoring phrases ‘Brazil,’ ‘Navy,’ and ‘Pentagon”
Rogue moderators have now been removed.