On September 23rd, 2025 with 226 comments
YouTube's parent company, Alphabet, said it will reinstate creators previously banned for spreading COVID-19 misinformation and false election claims, citing...
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On April 30th, 2024 with 243 comments
Jules Roscoe reports via 404 Media: Russia has replaced Wikipedia with a state-sponsored encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Russian Wikipedia but...
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On April 17th, 2022 with 260 comments
CNN reports on "an ironic effect" of efforts to remove books from libraries in America. "The more certain books are singled out, the more people want to read...
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On March 13th, 2022 with 73 comments
Friday the Verge reported:
The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of Belarus (GUBOPiK) has detained prominent Wikipedia editor Mark...
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On July 4th, 2021 with 130 comments
"A human rights group that attracted millions of views on YouTube to testimonies from people who say their families have disappeared in China's Xinjiang region...
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On April 20th, 2021 with 133 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Newsweek: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki received a "Free Expression" award from the Freedom Forum Institute in a virtual...
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On October 21st, 2020 with 116 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission's top lawyer today explained the FCC's theory of why it can grant...
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On May 28th, 2020 with 51 comments
YouTube sparked widespread speculation about its moderation policies this week after it admitted to accidentally deleting comments that contained phrases...
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On May 27th, 2020 with 162 comments
The Guardian reports that Twitter's anti-porn filters have blocked Dominic Cummings' name from trending on the platform, despite Boris Johnson's chief adviser...
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On September 30th, 2019 with 68 comments
dryriver writes: BitChute is a video-hosting website like YouTube, except that it states its mission as being "anti-censorship" and is Peer-To-Peer,...
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On June 8th, 2019 with 313 comments
AmiMoJo shares an article by Cory Doctorow:
Wednesday, Youtube announced that it would shut down, demonetize and otherwise punish channels that promoted...
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On November 24th, 2017 with 95 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Yahoo News: Mindgeek may be the most powerful company that you've never heard of, or at least, a company you'll claim...
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On October 21st, 2017 with 154 comments
schwit1 brings news about an exiled Chinese billionaire with 500,000 followers on YouTube. The Washington Free Beacon reports:YouTube has suspended the video...
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On September 2nd, 2017 with 216 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader Andy Smith, a Scotland-based news photographer, writes: I'm a press photographer. Slashdot has previously covered how the police used...
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On July 16th, 2017 with 199 comments
Speaking of Netflix, last month they began streaming "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press" -- a new documentary by Brian Knappenberger about the Gawker...
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On May 29th, 2017 with 170 comments
Determining how to prevent acts of censorship has long been a priority for the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, and thanks to new research from the Harvard...
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On December 4th, 2016 with 71 comments
Mark Wilson shares his article on Beta News:
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has made calls for technology companies and social media to do more to tackle the...
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On November 6th, 2016 with 121 comments
Shiva Ayyadurai still claims he invented email -- rather than the late ARPANET pioneer Ray Tomlinson. Now Gizmodo reports that Ayyadurai "will receive a...
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On October 22nd, 2016 with 79 comments
Her video went viral, viewed more than 14 million times, and triggering concerns online when she was threatened with prison. But a North Dakota judge "refused...
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On October 5th, 2016 with 163 comments
While the United States has the First Amendment to justify the spread of memes that may ridicule political figures for example, the Indonesian government...
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On September 27th, 2016 with 398 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TIME: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has declared a popular internet meme depicting a cartoon frog to be a hate...
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On September 24th, 2016 with 87 comments
The U.S. State Department is pursuing "a detailed plan for making unrestricted, unmonitored, and inexpensive electronic mass communications available to the...
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On September 2nd, 2016 with 184 comments
mi writes: Washington Free Beacon reports: "The National Science Foundation is spending roughly half a million dollars to combat 'online trolling.' A joint...
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On September 2nd, 2016 with 193 comments
Striek writes: "On Wednesday, several YouTube creators posted videos that voiced concerns over the platform's process of demonetizing videos for not being...
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On August 26th, 2016 with 57 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Since early 2015, over a dozen UK companies have been granted licenses to export powerful...
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On August 22nd, 2016 with 162 comments
North Korea has unveiled a set-top box that offers video-on demand services similar to Netflix. The service is called Manbang, which translates to "everywhere"...
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On August 11th, 2016 with 308 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BuzzFeed: In 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive and hateful replies...
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On July 9th, 2016 with 208 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report fro The Register: The UK's possible future prime minister thinks all websites should be classified with minimum age...
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On July 7th, 2016 with 167 comments
Mark Wilson, writing for BetaNews: The UK government is on a mission to protect the young of the country from the dark recesses of the web. And by the darker...
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On June 4th, 2016 with 68 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The UK is at serious risk of over-blocking web content, the Council of Europe has warned in a scathing...
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