Opinion
Publishers sign up to continue their abusive relationship with Facebook
Publishers sign up to Facebook News, despite how they’ve been treated in the past.
Crusader Kings 3 may remove all references to phrase “Deus Vult” because of “vile memes”, blog suggests
Something of a crusade against the Crusades is currently underway in the gaming world.
Instagram now lets users report images that contain “white power hand signs”
Instagram allows its users to report those who use a gesture that is absolutely harmless.
Meet the gaming forum that banned 20 percent of all users
This is ultimately a good thing for the gaming community as a whole, as the site is not a gaming forum, but a place for social justice warriors to promote their political agenda.
Reddit is about to further censor its communities to attract advertisers
Only time will tell to how far this policy will go and how much it will hurt communities to increase profit.
Andrew Yang proposes policy that would classify all digital data as personal property
Yang is proposing digital rights that make us wonder: why they don’t exist already? In this sense, the candidate is proposing things like the right to be informed of the data that is being collected from you, and how it will be put to use.
YouTube reverses at least some of the censorship of Steven Crowder and others
Crowder highlighted how the search results looked before and after his lawyer contacted YouTube about the issue.
Media outlets publish anti-regulation propaganda by Google-backed organizations without disclosure
If you’d like to know what a propaganda campaign, carried out by a powerful entity apparently lacking any semblance of disclosure and/or transparency might look like in a democracy – look no further than this spate of recent “opinion pieces” cropping up on US-based media outlets.
Facebook says it’s a publisher, invokes First Amendment rights to call Laura Loomer a “dangerous individual”
Facebook’s mind-boggling claim that its First Amendment rights allow it to ban users for exercising their own First Amendment rights – and that’s not even the only puzzling and contradictory point from the filing.
Parody account Titania McGrath suspended by Twitter
The social platform today suspended everyone’s favorite intersectional social justice activist Titania McGrath for seven days for a post that “violates Twitter’s terms of service”.
Microsoft suggests Chromium “cleanup of potentially offensive terms” such as “blacklist”
Microsoft is making its decisions on what’s allowed and what isn’t based on “a machine learned model that does context based scanning on hundreds of file formats.”
Buzzword “hate speech” is spawning new industries intent on profiting from curbing online speech
Such is the power of the concept of hate speech today that an industry is springing up around it, to serve mostly tech giants under fire from politicians and the media.