A crowd of protesters pressed up against the doors of Google’s office at London’s King’s Cross on Monday. The demonstrators chanted “we are the 99 percent,” while one shouted into a megaphone “they are not giving you the right information!” Piers Corbyn, a prominent anti-vaxxer and brother of former Labour …
Read More »Apple’s new ‘child-safety’ features face fresh challenge over censorship & privacy from over 90 rights groups
In a letter published on the Center for Democracy and Technology website, a coalition of more than 90 groups from around the world urged Apple CEO Tim Cook to drop plans to introduce the surveillance feature – known as a CSAM hash – to detect child pornographic imagery stored on …
Read More »Could growing censorship lead to a mass YouTube exodus? Glenn Greenwald & Tulsi Gabbard move to ‘free speech platform’ Rumble
The veteran journalist, along with former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and several other well-known commentators, have joined Rumble’s “deep pool of content talent,” the company said in a press release on Thursday. As part of the agreement, Rumble will provide the all-star content creators with resources to help them produce videos …
Read More »Media group Holding The Line is taking a stand against censorship and wants to stop Brits being ‘coerced and controlled by fear’
A counterinsurgency is underway in the British media. Holding The Line is a group who bill themselves as ‘Journalists Against Covid Censorship’. They are not anti-vaxxers or Covid-deniers but do feel the mainstream media is only allowing certain themes and tropes to be reported. Most importantly, they are adamant that UK …
Read More »‘Cheap stunts?’ Pro-censorship activists lay body bags outside Facebook office, claim platform spreading deadly ‘disinformation’
Blue body bags lined the curb outside Facebook’s office in Washington, DC on Wednesday, each bearing a sticker depicting Facebook’s ‘thumbs-up’ logo and the text “disinfo kills.” The protest was staged by a group calling itself The Real Facebook Oversight Board (RFOB), which was launched in response to Facebook establishing …
Read More »House Republicans unveil plan to tackle Big Tech censorship, but no legislation yet
Endorsed by such polar opposites as progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and pro-Trump Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri), breaking up the Silicon Valley tech titans is becoming a bipartisan concern. Six bills passed the House Judiciary Committee last month with bipartisan support and, if made law, they would restrict acquisitions by …
Read More »New York Times keeps book about CENSORSHIP off its bestseller list, disgruntled publisher complains to media
‘Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds’ by Knowles has already topped bestseller lists on Amazon and Publisher’s Weekly (and sold nearly 18,000 copies in its first week of release). Despite its success, though, it does not meet the standards to appear as a top 15 bestseller on the New York Times’ …
Read More »Federal judge BLOCKS Florida’s anti-censorship law, says it violates Big Tech free speech rights
Florida SB 7072, signed into law by Republican Governor RonDeSantis in May, was scheduled to go into effect on July 1. On Wednesday evening, however, US District Court Judge Robert Hinkle issued an injunction blocking it. Hinkle was responding to a lawsuit by two Silicon Valley trade associations, NetChoice LLC …
Read More »YouTube APOLOGIZES, reverses ‘permanent ban’ on pro-censorship pressure group Right Wing Watch
The group, which says it “monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations,” found itself permanently banned earlier on Monday for “severe or repeated violations” of YouTube’s terms of service. The Google-owned platform confirmed the decision after initial appeal, leaving Right Wing Watch furious and conservative pundits gloating …
Read More »You get what you deserve’: Conservatives jeer as pro-censorship group Right Wing Watch gets BANNED on YouTube (but not for long)
Right Wing Watch describes itself as a group that “monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations.” What that means in practice is RWW combs social media for controversial statements, before explicitly or implicitly calling for the accounts behind them to be banned. However, tables were seemingly turned on …
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