As US Senators posture ineffectually, Spotify takes a stand on censorship
The Senate hearing on internet censorship was largely a waste of time, but at least one company is daring to resist the authoritarian tide.
The Senate hearing on internet censorship was largely a waste of time, but at least one company is daring to resist the authoritarian tide.
Later today the US internet giants will be grilled by the Senate over how they censor their platforms, with Section 230 protections at stake.
The European Digital Media Association wants its members to be given better legal protection when they act against illegal content in Europe.
Zoom, Patreon and YouTube are joining the fun as Silicon Valley increasingly strives to control the public square.
Republican politicians are pushing for reforms to Section 230, which protects internet platforms from liability for the content they host, and they want the FCC to help.
Twitter and Facebook blocked a NY Post report that was damaging to a US Presidential candidate, leading to renewed calls to remove their Section 230 protection.
The US President’s crusade to tackle what he perceives as biased political censorship by social media platforms is gathering momentum.
The US government has nominated NTIA advisor Nathan Simington to replace Commissioner Mike O’Rielly at its telecoms regulator, apparently because he opposed plans to tighten social media regulation.
Social media giant Facebook has been under constant regulatory and governmental scrutiny for years, but now it faces its most fearsome adversary yet.
Australia wants to force tech companies to hand over more cash to its legacy media but Facebook would rather just walk away.
President Donald Trump has often shown a tenuous grasp of how the economy works, but this is an interesting statement.
Microsoft has confirmed it is currently in discussions with ByteDance to acquire TikTok operations in the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Apparently people sometimes say things online that UK politicians don’t like, so they want to be able to punish social media companies that allow it.
A bunch of Facebook execs met with representatives of a group that is attempting to impose its will on the company by pressuring its commercial partners.
Social media giant Facebook is refusing to be blackmailed into having its censorship policies dictated to it, for now.
The decision by major brands to boycott Facebook and Twitter has caused other internet platforms to panic into removing and accounts they fear may upset advertisers.
The campaign against Facebook has metastasised, as big brands increasingly decide all social media is too toxic for them.
Censorship advocates are celebrating the addition of US telco Verizon to their campaign against Facebook, but they’re mistaken.
A coalition of political pressure groups has called for a companies to suspend advertising on all Facebook platforms, in protest over it hosting political messages they don’t like.
Facebook has been confirmed as the new owner of Swedish crowd-sourcing mapping company Mapillary.
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