UK
Count Dankula considers taking wrongful conviction after “offensive joke” to European Court of Human Rights
Dankula’s audience wants him to give it a try.
Google threatens to strip revenue from The Federalist after NBC News complaint
People see this as NBC lobbying Google, which has a monopoly on website advertising, to demonetize its competitors.
YouTube is automatically deleting any comments about “black lives matter violence”
Users who comment about violence at Black Lives Matter protests have their comments automatically put into a black hole.
Team-Xecuter says Nintendo lawsuit is censorship
Do people not have the right to tinker with the devices they purchased?
Facebook deletes accounts of anti-racism activists in widespread algorithmic deplatforming
More casualties of blanket moderation.
Members
Little Britain pulled from streaming services for racial insensitivity because “times have changed”
Even post-millennium shows are being pulled as they don’t comply with the more sensitive tendencies of today.
Twitter says “traditional dichotomy” of platform vs publisher doesn’t really work any more
Twitter was questioned by British lawmakers this week.
UK contact tracing app breaches GDPR, will store personal user data for 20 years
The apps have been a privacy nightmare from the start.
YouTube censors interview with lockdown skeptic Peter Hitchens
YouTube continues to suppress any content that goes against their chosen narrative.
British men arrested, investigated for “hate crime” after staged George Floyd murder Snapchat post
Police believing the content is a crime raises alarms about a lack of free expression in the UK, no matter how distasteful and unpleasant the content may be.