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YouTube says rule exceptions are made with content from some politicians
YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki spoke at The Atlantic Festival.
Take-Two Interactive accused of harassing YouTuber’s mom over Red Dead Redemption mod
YouTuber and modder GamingDamned says that Take-Two Interactive illegally obtained non-public contact information and then harassed him and his family.
Senator Hawley calls on the FTC to release Google 2012 antitrust violation details
“The report provides evidence that Google was deceiving consumers before 2012, and the recent fines levied against Google suggest that Google never stopped,” Hawley writes.
Boris Johnson warns about Google surveillance, says smart tech could rein “oppressively over the human race”
Johnson’s speech was designed and delivered at the UN with the aim of securing international coordination in controlling and regulating new technologies in a thoughtful and “balanced” manner, reporters surmised from his address.
Kodi website goes down after host pulls support
What the problem showcases, however, is the financial vulnerability even of some very successful and widely used free and open-source projects.
Report finds evidence of TikTok censorship
ByteDance said the original goal was to not censorship – but preventing “conflict” from the real world spilling over to the platform.
Carson King raised $1M for charity before hypocritical reporter digs up old tweets
The reporter caused brands to pull their association with King.
Alex Jones sues The Young Turks and Brianna Wu for libel
Jones’ suit alleges that the defendants libeled Jones over the summer when they falsely accused him of sending child porn.
Facebook says politicians are exempt from third-party fact-checking program but still fact-checks their posts
The exemption will only apply to “organic content” that has been created by the politician.
Duolingo censors app after Twitter users say phrasing is offensive to illegal immigrants
The CEO announced that they would censor the app and remove those phrases anyway to avoid any confusion.
Firefox says encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS won’t be turned on by default in the UK
Mozilla will leave UK Firefox users to fend for themselves when it comes to the all-seeing and snooping eyes of their ISPs.
Chinese TikTok introduces face search
TikTok – the global version – and the app’s version for the Chinese market that is now launching this advertising feature, known as Douyin – are both the product of one of China’s own “Big Tech” companies, namely, ByteDance.