Online censorship regarding dissemination of Covid information in the US at this point looks sure to have to get much worse, before it gets any better. The latest “victim” in this raging online campaign […]
Twitch removed a video showing the full details of George Floyd’s death, which was shown during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer charged with the murder of Floyd. The Amazon-owned video streaming platform claimed […]
After years of hinting that it may remove the dislike button, YouTube has announced that it’s now testing new designs that hide public dislike counts. These public dislike counts are an important metric for YouTube […]
AT&T is lobbying against proposals to subsidize fiber-to-the-home deployment across the US, arguing that rural people don’t need fiber and should be satisfied with Internet service that provides only 10Mbps upload speeds. […]
We’ve all experienced this: one second you’re watching a product review on YouTube and the next you see an advert for exactly that product in your Instagram feed. While it still feels like some kind […]
Android handsets and iPhones share data with their respective companies on average every 4½ minutes, with data being sent back even when idle in a pocket or handbag, according to a new academic study. […]
In a development security pros feared, attackers are actively targeting yet another set of critical server vulnerabilities that leave corporations and governments open to serious network intrusions. The vulnerability this time is in BIG-IP, […]
Depending on how and when you count, Japan’s Toyota is the world’s largest automaker. According to Wheels, Toyota and Volkswagen vie for the title of the world’s largest, with each taking the crown from […]
The National Institute of Justice, the RAND Corporation and the Police Executive Research Forum want to give law enforcement real-time access to autonomous vehicles.Last month, this so-called expert panel identified 17 high-priority law […]
Facebook has permanently suspended the page of Virginia State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Amanda Chase which had more than 144,000 followers. The page was initially given a temporary 60-day suspension on January 8, days […]
Utah governor Spencer Cox has signed the infamous porn filter bill. If enacted, smartphones and tablets purchased in Utah will automatically block a potentially sweeping range of content based on fluctuating value judgments. There’s […]
MOSCOW—Three members of a Russian warplane crew died Tuesday when their ejection seats accidentally activated during preflight checks, the military said. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the incident happened Tuesday at a military […]
Facebook-owned Instagram is accused of censorship for restricting a page that raises awareness on Endometriosis, a chronic condition that affects women. Endometriosis is a chronic medical condition where the cells on the womb lining […]
Twitter was accused of censoring photos showing overcrowding at the cells holding illegal migrants at the United States’ southern border, hiding the content behind a filter warning as “potentially sensitive.” When questioned, the platform later […]
The classified data has since been removed from an online map, but it is unclear how long it was up and how many people might have made screengrabs of the bases’ locations. A detailed map […]
Facebook has deleted the page of Ahmad Al Issa, the man who has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting in Boulder, Colorado on Monday night. The deletion occurred […]
Facebook’s approach to registering 4.5 million voters affected the November election to President Joe Biden, a Facebook executive surmised in the hidden camera footage. The executive, Benny Thomas, showed gloomy views of the giant […]
YouTube has removed the Alex Jones episode of Flagrant 2, a podcast hosted by the comedians Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, for “violating YouTube’s Terms of Service” less than two weeks after it was […]
In a flashback to how art that offended the Soviet regime was blacklisted, streaming giant Spotify is now censoring song lyrics that contain “misinformation.” Yes, really. Music icon Ian Brown revealed that Spotify had deleted […]
Not only is MyPillow CEO and prominent Trump supporter Mike Lindell facing deplatforming on major social media, with his company targeted by pressure groups – those who express their support for him are also […]
Outkick.com founder and owner Clay Travis has told a House judiciary subcommittee, which deals with antitrust issues, that Facebook deliberately damaged his business by cutting a huge chunk of the site’s traffic a day […]
You can’t be sure about your data’s security or the communication you are engaging in over online channels, especially messaging apps. There are such apps out there that will share your personal communication data […]
American and European researchers suggest that people who chase “likes“ on social media share similar thinking patterns with lab rats seeking food. In their study, which is set to be published in the journal […]
James Corbett is likely not long for the YouTube world, having received his second warning his channel is on the chopping block. There are still many platforms on which you can follow his work […]
Chat app Clubhouse is no longer available in Oman. The government claims the ban is due to a lack of license, but activists believe it is censorship. Speaking to news website WAF, the Omani telecoms […]
Before there were over-the-air updates for everything, you’d just park the car further away from the house if it had the risk of spontaneously combusting. That’s exactly that’s going on over at Kia, where the […]
Facebook says it will add labels to all posts about COVID-19 vaccines, as part of its efforts to help more people get a shot as well as to counter what it calls misinformation. “We’ve already connected […]
Netflix is on to your shenanigans, and by golly it’s going to do something about it. The streaming behemoth is taking new steps to stop the dreaded scourge of account sharing this week, demanding […]
It wasn’t a good day, particularly for the open source community, when the news spread several years ago that none other than Microsoft – the Bill Gates-founded original Big Tech bully and monopoly – […]
Twitter was now blocking all links, shared in tweets, to the BitChute domain. This is the case as of March 12. BitChute is an independent video hosting platform that has gained in popularity as […]
PARIS—A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites, and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to […]
It looks like Parler’s App Store exile will continue. Bloomberg reports that Apple recently rejected the app’s bid to get back onto iPhones, citing “highly objectionable content.” Apple had originally kicked Parler out of the […]
In an episode featuring comedian Fahim Anwar, Joe Rogan admitted that Spotify censored some of his podcasts. He also admitted the rumors of some Spotify employees’ intolerant attitude towards him. In May 2020, Rogan’s podcast, […]
(Natural News) If you use Google’s Chrome browser to surf the web and do so “incognito,” which is supposed to mean private browsing, you should know that the Silicon Valley giant is still secretly […]
Political commentator and former Senate candidate Lauren Witzke has been banned from Twitter for writing “demonic” while responding to a transgender activist statement. Twitter suspended her account for violating its policies on “hateful conduct.” […]
YANGON, Burma—YouTube removed five channels run by Burma’s military (also known as Myanmar) for violating its guidelines, it announced Friday, as demonstrators defied growing violence by security forces and staged more anti-coup protests ahead […]
(Natural News) Multinational corporate giant Google is readying to unveil an Orwellian new “pre-crime” program known as “Geofence” that has the potential to assign “guilt” to innocent people who happen to be nearby when […]
We were disheartened to read yesterday that Facebook has removed the NVIC page. Barb Loe Fisher has been a champion for the right to informed consent, safety and choice for vaccination for more than 40 […]
If you frequently use Gmail’s native web client to send emails, you may have noticed something odd about how it handles emoji. Google may have said goodbye to its distinctive blobs in 2017, but for […]
Facebook’s censorship hides and distorts major events all over the world. Journalists in Greece are accusing Facebook of censorship after the social media platform took action against accounts sharing photos of a protest in […]
There has been a lot of talk lately about centralized and unaccountable entities and internet monopolies preventing competition and participation in highly visible places, like social media sites and various online services controlled by giant […]
The site has never been much liked by Google but has now gotten to where more people find it via Duckduckgo (2.3% of the market) than with Google (87% of the market): By some measure, […]
Twitter has announced a new strikes system where accounts that repeatedly post what it deems to be COVID-19 “misinformation” will be permanently banned from the site. Under the new system, users that tweet what […]
Right-wing social media network Gab appears to have suffered an extensive data breach. According to Wired, a self-proclaimed hacktivist who goes by the handle “JaXpArO“ obtained more than 70GB of data on the platform‘s […]
Facebook does not seem to recognize that marijuana is legal in some jurisdictions. Not only has Facebook been censoring marijuana-related posts, but also content about legal cannabis products such as hemp bioplastics, and educators […]
Twitter has introduced new rules to prevent the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. Under the new policy, the company will label tweets with “misleading“ information and ban accounts that repeatedly break […]