censorship

Elon Musk became embroiled in a contentious dispute over Twitter's censorship practices, firing back at a critic with a scathing retort.  What Happened: Musk, who has often positioned himself as a vocal advocate for free speech, responded with incensed fury when confronted with allegations of...

A Finnish newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, has found a unique way to deliver independent journalism about Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine to Russians playing the popular Valve Corporation's "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive." The newspaper created a map within the game, which...

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) introduced NFTs that are stored entirely on its blockchain. These NFTs can hold up to 4MB of data, enabling the storage of short videos and even the Satoshi whitepaper on the blockchain. This has the potential to make Bitcoin a competitor to Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), which...

WeedTube, the video-sharing platform for cannabis content, is launching a petition to gather a million signatures to demand that Instagram end its strict censorship of cannabis-related content and update its Community Guidelines to treat all legally operating cannabis businesses equally....

This article by Benjamin Galloway was originally published on HoneySuckle and appears here with permission. When inmate Phillip Alvin Jones was barred from receiving Honeysuckle's latest issue by the Washington State Dept. of Corrections, it sparked a deep-dive investigation into prisoners...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) blocked posts with the hashtag "#ResignModi" on its social media platform and restored them hours later amid mounting concerns of government censoring critical views, Bloomberg reported. What Happened: According to the report, Facebook claims it blocked the...

Alibaba Group Holding Limited’s (NYSE: BABA) popular internet browser has been removed by several internet companies from their app stores in China, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. What Happened: Most of China’s Android app stores, including those operated by technology companies...

Clubhouse downloads rose quickly in China, where users are usually blocked from discussing sensitive subjects such as the government crackdown on Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement. Researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory are warning users of the social media...

Clubhouse, Silicon Valley’s invitation-only audio chat room, is now one of the fastest-growing social media apps in the world. What Happened: According to Sensor Tower, an app analytics company, Clubhouse ranks in the top 30 of apps that iPhone users have downloaded this week...

The European Union passed legislation this week that introduces new requirements for how social media platforms handle content posted on their platform. What Happened EU bureaucrats passed the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, 348 to 274, which grants new power for European media...

Social media platform Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is reportedly blocking users from sharing content originating from Zero Hedge, a financial news website that has a "bearish bent and anti-establishment" tone, according to Bloomberg. What Happened Zero Hedge users attempting to...

Sundar Pichai heads Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google unit and will testify in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee this year to discuss reports of censorship on the platform. What Happened The vast majority of Google's revenue comes from its core search engine,...

Champions of China’s free internet campaign took another hit Monday with a pullback of functionalities on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s cloud computing services. Beijing Sinnet Technology, the Chinese company locally operating Amazon Web Services, ordered domestic site hosts to stop...

It sounds counterintuitive for censorship or community expulsion to curb violent extremism, whose perpetrators are already driven by feelings of discrimination, alienation, oppression or non-acceptance, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the recent strategies of tech and social...