Senate Judiciary Committee
NO FAKES Act Clears Senate Committee: Delete First, Ask Never
Three senators named the free-speech problems out loud and voted for the bill anyway.
Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Bill That Would End Private Messaging
The push to end privacy.
Whistleblower alleges Twitter employees still have access to all users’ accounts, even after major hack
A newly-filed FTC complaint.
Senate committee votes to advance Big Tech antitrust bill
Big Tech is lobbying against it.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is reported to personally be lobbying the Senate Judiciary Committee on antitrust
Cook is trying to protect Apple from regulation.
Twitter suspends Savanah Hernandez and “Stonewall Jackson” after they’re retweeted by President Trump
The wave of post-election censorship continues.
Google leaker says the company is using a blacklist to scrub “Clinton body count” from autocomplete results
Multiple Google engineers have claimed that the company employs blacklists and their claims are supported by several leaked documents which appear to show Google blacklists.
Sen. Mazie Hirono calls Social Media Summit guests “social media’s leading racists and conspiracy theorists”
Hirono also claimed that YouTube “dragged its feet” when demonetizing comedian Steven Crowder and suggested that Google isn’t doing enough to censor content on its platforms.
Senator Lindsey Graham to host “Protecting Innocence in a Digital World” hearing tomorrow
There are no details on what the hearing will cover but the title suggests it will focus on measures to protect children online – measures that often result in more censorship and data collection.