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Apple managed to decimate ad blockers on Safari with little backlash
But, unlike Google and its plans for Chrome, the Apple has succeeded in removing adblockers without facing any backlash or raising alarms among its users.
Snapchat dossier containing Facebook anti-competitive practices to be handed to the FTC
Titled after the antagonist of the famous Harry Potter series, the document is known as the “Project Voldemort.”
YouTube’s anti-conspiracy algorithm has boosted legacy media at the expense of YouTubers
Independent creators are consistently drawing the short end of the stick.
BBC tests allowing users to hide “triggering” news
The project is now in its testing phase, and the BBC doesn’t seem to be planning to introduce it soon.
Tulsi: Tech giants against free speech is “a danger to us all”
Gabbard pointed out that the fact Google didn’t hesitate to suspend the account of a member of Congress and a presidential candidate, means that “regular” people and their right to free speech are just as endangered – if with fewer resources to protect themselves.
YouTuber CGP Grey YouTube account suspended
“Your access to this Google product has been suspended, because of a perceived violation of either the Google Terms of Service or product-specific Terms of Service.”
Major game modding channel MxR Mods loses YouTube partnership and gets demonetized
Henry Liang, who owns one of the largest and consistently popular modding channels on YouTube, MxR Mods, has received an email from YouTube announcing that they’re removing the channel from the partnership program and demonetizing the entire channel.
EU free speech vs right to be forgotten case to be heard next week
In this case, Richard Cumbley of law firm Linklaters told Reuters, it would “create a serious clash with US concepts of freedom of speech, and other states might also try and suppress search results on a global basis reducing Google’s search engine to a list of the anodyne and inoffensive.”
EFF warns that frantic push to crush “extremist” speech online will hurt innocent users
Hard questions are being asked about the way content is treated and censored online by some of the world’s most powerful platforms.
Social network Gab outlines GabPro tiers with extra benefits for supporters
The funding of alternative platforms is more relevant given that the social networking scene is dominated by giants and the policies behind them that are unsympathetic towards Gab’s brand of free speech.
World’s largest and oldest commercial archive Adland taken offline after questionable DMCA claim
Adland had been online for 23 years and often hosted ads that had been banned or censored elsewhere.
Congress drafts bill to create “national commission” for online content removal
The bill calls for a “federal social media task force to coordinate the government’s response to such issues.”