UK
Ko-fi unpublishes page of UK women’s rights group
Another UK campaign group has one of its donation pages shut down.
Apple removes Russian app VK and others from App Store after UK sanctions
Popular Russian social networks and communications apps are starting to be removed.
The digital dollar will not be anonymous, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell says
Erasing the anonymity of physical cash and privacy-focused cryptocurrencies.
UK lawmakers want to block PayPal from shutting down accounts over political ideology
PayPal is closing accounts for what it believes is “misinformation.”
UK broadcasters and streamers challenge the monarchy over access to Queen’s mourning period footage
The rights to retain and use footage.
Meta’s Nick Clegg says the company risks being “the greatest industrial-scale censor ever in human history”
Yet the platform continues to censor opinions.
PayPal shuts account of group who fought to keep schools open during pandemic
Another casualty of the recent PayPal purge.
PayPal bans the Free Speech Union, the Daily Sceptic, and Toby Young
Young described PayPal’s actions as “a new low in Big Tech’s war on free speech.”
Facebook deletes group that used carrot emojis as code for the vaccine after BBC complains
Groups with over 100,000 followers shut down.
UK’s National Health Service is debating partnership with data company Palantir
The decision has been delayed.
New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss is expected to water down the online censorship bill
Proposed changes to fix the Online Safety Bill which is dangerous for free speech.
Google is ordered to censor YouTube rippers from search results in UK
Media companies want to stop people downloading videos.