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The War Against So-Called “Misinformation” Seems to Always Ignore Mainstream Websites
The conundrum then becomes: who will guard the guards themselves?
Popular Cartoonist Ben Garrison Banned From Instagram
The ban hammer strikes again.
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.
A Jehovah’s Witnesses Group Is Trying to Abuse Copyright Law to Unmask a Reddit User’s Identity
EFF is optimistic that a court will reject the subpoena targeting “darkspilver” – as courts regularly do if these requests don’t pass constitutional scrutiny.
The US Government Is Using Images of Citizens Without Their Consent, Including Dead People and Exploited Minors, to Test Facial Recognition Tech
People are being captured at their most vulnerable positions and their images are being used without knowledge or consent.
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.