Russia
Apple provided FBI with data on Sci-Hub founder
A gag order prevented her from being told for almost two years.
YouTube deletes links to Navalny’s “SmartVote” initiative and suspends channels that promote the project
YouTube is calling the links spam.
Russia’s regulator slams YouTube censorship
Russia says YouTube censors non-Western “stances.”
WaPo calls on President Biden to protect social media free speech (abroad)
Unlike what it calls for in the US.
Russia threatens to slow down Twitter if it refuses to censor pro-protest content
The Roskomnadzor threatens Twitter.
Amnesty International revokes Alexei Navalny’s “prisoner of conscience” status for “hate speech”
An organization that claims to support free speech is now letting so-called hate speech influence its decisions.
Twitter bans state accounts for “undermining faith in NATO” and targeted the US and EU
Twitter announced the mass purge.
Governments increasingly use the idea of COVID “misinformation” to suppress speech and dissent
It’s happening all over the world.
Members
Russia threatens to ban YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter after they censor Russian media outlets
One pro-censorship entity threatens to ban another.
Russia accuses YouTube of censorship
Officials say the video giant is violating the country’s constitution.
Google bans award-winning WW2 game Attentat 1942 for referencing the term “Nazi”
It’s unclear how Google expects a game about WW2 to not reference Nazis. The game is blocked in several regions.