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The US Congress doesn’t want to make filing taxes online free and simple
The new legislation called “The Taxpayer First Act” will force the IRS to pledge not to make its own software and move these services to third-party contractors.
PayPal now wants sellers to pay a fee, even if the transaction gets refunded
PayPal has said that anyone who disagrees with any of their new terms is free to close their account.
Google helps law enforcement by handing over data without a warrant, EPIC claims
The scanning involves the use of a proprietary algorithm to investigate files and data uploaded by their users.
Cloudflare announces Warp: a free VPN that it claims will actually respect your privacy
Cloudflare claims that its Warp VPN will not write any user-identifiable log data to disk, will purge all debug logs within 24 hours, and will not require any personally identifiable information to start using the service.
Prosecutors want key figures of the infamous copyright troll company Prenda Law firm to over a decade in jail
Members of the firm uploaded torrents of copyrighted pornographic material to the Pirate Bay sharing website with the goal of luring “pirates” into downloading this content, TorrentFreak is reporting.
Twitter plans to hide and label tweets from Trump and other public figures when they violate its rules
In an interview with The Washington Post, Twitter’s Lead of Trust and Safety, Legal, and Public Policy, Vijaya Gadde, said that Twitter is working on ways to hide tweets and label tweets from President Trump and other public figures if they violate Twitter’s rules.
Consider making your Flickr photos Creative Commons to avoid the 1,000 photo limit
“All public Creative Commons works on Flickr are now protected from deletion”, says Flickr.
Senator Josh Hawley’s solution for the censoring of conservatives would actually lead to more censoring of conservatives
Section 230 is actually good at protecting free speech.
Free speech social network Gab and its Dissenter comments extension are now open to all users
Gab, the free speech social network, was previously invite-only and Dissenter, the extension that allows you to create Gab-hosted comments feeds for any website, was initially only available to Gab Pro users. Now anyone can sign up for a free Gab account and connect it to Dissenter.
Facebook Shut Down More Conservative, Libertarian and Anti-Establishment Pages With Millions of Followers, Weeks Before The Election
To stop what Facebook calls “Fake News,” the social media giant has blacklisted over 800 accounts and pages.
Google Censorship: Secret Google Document Leaked Says Uncontrolled Free Speech is a “Utopian Narrative”
Breitbart News has just released a top-secret Google internal company briefing.