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Silicon Valley lobbyists are pushing back hard against consumer privacy legislation
Big tech wants to weaken privacy laws.
Twitter censors a video that criticizes Twitter for censoring content
Twitter has been under fire ever since they started banning mostly right-leaning public personalities and politicians on their platform.
Twitter suspends Ivan, prominent free speech advocate
Ivan is known for 3D printing guns and believes that an armed society is a polite society.
Senator Ted Cruz stumps Twitter rep during free speech hearing after asking him if he agrees with a quote from CEO Jack Dorsey on neutrality
Monje was asked multiple questions about Twitter’s political bias by Cruz but refused to answer any of them directly.
Twitter’s silences its own users to appease advertisers
Twitter wants to keep advertisers interested and implement more and more solutions to make the speech as toothless as possible.
The big tech free speech hearing will be on April 10th, 2019; titled “Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse”
It is hard to deny that Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube look more and more like public platforms rather than “publishers” who can censor content however they want.
France shoots itself in the foot, gets blocked on Twitter because of their own dumb “fake news” law
Facebook and Google are reported to have already complied with the law by updating their services in France – but not Twitter.
Project Veritas Strikes Again: Hidden camera video shows Twitter developer saying how algorithms are written to shadowban conservative voices
It seems that one of the methods used by Twitter to determine which types of speech are permitted on the platform is equating conservative users to bots.
Brett Easton Ellis slams “hysterical” language policing and jumping to judgements on Twitter
Considering the impact of the platform, concerns voiced by Ellis and many other prominent public figures are more than justified.
How to see what your social media and browsing habits know about your psychology
The launch of a new tool means that those internet users eager to find out, in great depth and detail, how “others” see them.
For a while, when some Twitter users tried to follow the pro-life @UnplannedMovie account, Twitter automatically unfollowed them
The most prominent person so far that has experienced this problem is US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.
Twitter temporarily suspended the account of pro-life movie “Unplanned” during its opening weekend
Twitter is constantly being accused of being biased against conservatives