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New Facebook Tool Allows Employers to Suppress “Unionize” in Workplace Chat

Facebook Workplace is used by employers as large as Walmart. The new tool would allow “content control” to prevent certain topics from trending internally.
censorship · facebook · moderation
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 22:19
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/facebook-workplace-unionize/

How Big Tech Monopolies Distort Our Public Discourse

Long before the pandemic crisis, there was widespread concern over the impact that tech was having on the quality of our discourse, from disinformation campaigns to influence campaigns to polarization.It's true that the way we talk to each other and about the world has changed, both in form (thanks...
advertising · censorship · platforms · privatised-enforcement
Fri, 29 May 2020 at 08:58
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/how-big-tech-monopolies-distort-our-public-discourse

How Big Tech Monopolies Distort Our Public Discourse

Long before the pandemic crisis, there was widespread concern over the impact that tech was having on the quality of our discourse, from disinformation campaigns to influence campaigns to polarization.It's true that the way we talk to each other and about the world has changed, both in form (thanks...
censorship · platforms · privatised-enforcement
Fri, 29 May 2020 at 08:58
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/how-big-tech-monopolies-distort-our-public-discourse

How governments use the internet to crush online dissent - The Correspondent

censorship · de-week · iran
Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 19:13
https://thecorrespondent.com/142/how-governments-use-the-internet-to-crush-online-dissent/92407345184-ad4932f7

Apple's Good Intentions on Privacy Stop at China's Borders | WIRED

As pro-democracy protests continue in Hong Kong, the tech giant’s troubling relationship with an authoritarian regime has come into focus.
apple · censorship · china
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 00:19
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-apps-flag/

Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing

Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims
censorship · china · tiktok
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 12:53
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing

The myth of the free speech crisis | World news | The Guardian

censorship · de-week · freedom-of-speech
Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 14:56
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/03/the-myth-of-the-free-speech-crisis

China Intercepts WeChat Texts From US and Abroad, Researcher Says

China is intercepting texts from WeChat users living outside of the country, mostly from the U.S. Taiwan, South Korea, and Australia. NPR reports:
The popular Chinese messaging app WeChat is Zhou Fengsuo's most reliable communication link to China. That's because he hasn't been back in over two dec...
censorship · china · de-week · surveillance
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 08:04
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/Fn-M1loyLjU/china-intercepts-wechat-texts-from-us-and-abroad-researcher-says

Free flow of information: Fotograaf klaagt Facebook aan

  Fotograaf Thijs Heslenfeld heeft aangifte  gedaan tegen Facebook bij het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) in Amsterdam, schrijft De Volkskrant .  ...
censorship · facebook · freedom-of-speech
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 08:22
http://freeflowofinformation.blogspot.com/2019/08/fotograaf-klaagt-facebook-aan.html?m=1

A New App Allows Readers in China to Bypass Censorship of The Intercept

In partnership with Psiphon, we are launching a custom app for Android and Windows devices that circumvents China’s censorship of The Intercept.
censorship · de-week
Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 20:23
https://theintercept.com/2019/08/08/china-censorship-bypass-app/

Nederlandse fotograaf doet aangifte tegen Facebook | Het Parool

censorship · de-week · facebook
Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 16:32
https://www.parool.nl/kunst-media/nederlandse-fotograaf-doet-aangifte-tegen-facebook~bc8543a8/

Cloudflare Ditches 8chan. What Happens Now? | WIRED

censorship · de-week
Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 16:07
https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-8chan-support-ddos/

Project status · Issue #289 · tkashkin/GameHub · GitHub

censorship · de-week · github
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 at 02:09
https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub/issues/289

The Online Abuse Playbook - Humane Tech - Medium

censorship · de-week · export-controls · github · iran
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 at 02:08
https://medium.com/humane-tech/the-online-abuse-playbook-575648c9f798

Google Is Still Working on China Search Engine, Employees Claim

A group of employees said Google made hundreds of changes to smartphone apps for the controversial project, thought to be defunct.
censorship · china · google
Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 08:27
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/04/google-ongoing-project-dragonfly/

Patreon and Twitter are right about freedom of speech


At a blockchain event i was at on Friday, someone made an offhand comment about how Patreon's editorial decisions meant that people no longer felt
censorship · de-week · freedom-of-speech
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 08:09
https://werd.io/2019/patreon-and-twitter-are-right-about-freedom-of-speech

How Google took on China—and lost - MIT Technology Review

censorship · china · de-week · google
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 13:31
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612601/how-google-took-on-china-and-lost/

How China Helped Make the Internet Less Free in 2018 | WIRED

Tech companies, democratic governments, and civil society need to work together to fight back against growing surveillance and censorship online.
censorship · china · de-week
Wed, 26 Dec 2018 at 15:16
https://www.wired.com/story/internet-freedom-china-2018/

Swedish ISP Protests 'Site Blocking' by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too - TorrentFreak

censorship · copyright · website-blocking
Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 20:49
https://torrentfreak.com/swedish-isp-protest-site-blocking-by-blocking-rightsholders-website-and-more-181102/

Leaked Transcript of Private Meeting Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China

Publicly, Google executive Ben Gomes has called the censored search engine “an exploration.” Privately, he wanted it completed “as soon as possible.”
censorship · china
Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 18:12
https://theintercept.com/2018/10/09/google-china-censored-search-engine/

Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers

Google’s plan for a censored search engine in China also blacklists terms like “Nobel Prize” and “human rights.”
censorship · china · de-week · google
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 at 10:14
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/14/google-china-prototype-links-searches-to-phone-numbers/

How to: beat Chinese social media image-filtering

How to: beat Chinese social media image-filtering
censorship · china · de-week
Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 01:34
https://boingboing.net/2018/09/07/free-wechat.html

Google Executives Misled Staff in Meeting on China Censorship. Here Are 13 Questions They Must Answer.

censorship · china · de-week · google
Tue, 21 Aug 2018 at 13:59
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/17/internal-meeting-reveals-how-google-bosses-misled-staff-on-their-china-censorship-plan-here-are-the-questions-they-must-answer/

Facebook Suspended a Latin American News Network and Gave Three Different Reasons Why

Facebook offered a jumble of explanations for why Telesur's English-language page was suddenly taken down and then reinstated two days later.
censorship · facebook
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 17:25
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/20/facebook-suspended-a-latin-american-news-network-and-gave-three-different-reasons-why/

Free flow of information: Zwaktebod

  Op de opiniepagina van Trouw levert Jaron Harambam vandaag kritiek op het bannen van de rechtse complotdenker en haatzaaier Alex Jones van...
censorship · freedom-of-speech
Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 20:22
http://freeflowofinformation.blogspot.com/2018/08/zwaktebod.html?m=1

Google Censorship Plan Is “Not Right” and “Stupid,” Says Former Google Head of Free Expression

Lokman Tsui said a planned censored search engine will put Google in a weak position and alienate employees.
censorship · china · google
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 at 02:50
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/10/google-censorship-plan-is-not-right-and-stupid-says-former-google-head-of-free-expression/

Google Struggles to Contain Employee Uproar Over China Censorship Plans

After The Intercept revealed Google's censored search engine for China, employees are “upset and scared” as executives restrict information, sources said.
censorship · china · de-week · google
Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 21:45
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/google-search-engine-china-censorship-backlash/

Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal

censorship · china · de-week · google
Wed, 1 Aug 2018 at 12:41
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/

Ted Cruz on Alex Jones Facebook ban: ‘Who the hell made Facebook the arbiter of political speech?’ | TheHill

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday pushed back against Facebook for banning conspiracy theorist and InfoWars founder Alex Jones, suggesting the platform was infringing on the First Amendment.
censorship · facebook
Sun, 29 Jul 2018 at 21:37
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/399417-ted-cruz-on-alex-jones-ban-who-the-hell-made-facebook-the-arbiter-of

Leaked Documents Show Facebook’s ‘Threshold’ for Deleting Pages and Groups - Motherboard

censorship · de-week · facebook
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 10:44
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5nxz/leaked-documents-facebook-threshold-delete-pages-groups

Facebook gives special protections to racist pages and allows extreme content to be shared, investigation shows | The Independent

black-struggle · censorship · facebook
Wed, 18 Jul 2018 at 23:26
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-rules-content-moderation-post-extreme-content-child-abuse-racist-latest-a8450196.html

Now-fixed iOS 11.3 bug reveals how Apple censors the Taiwanese flag on Chinese iPhones | 9to5Mac

A bug in iOS 11.3 – fixed in iOS 11.4.1 – revealed that Apple censors the Taiwanese flag on iPhones whose region is set to China …
apple · censorship · china
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 at 00:27
https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/11/apple-china-taiwan-flag/

A Billion Grains of Rice – Alec Muffett – Medium

Reflections on Social Network Content Blocking & Censorship
censorship · de-week · false-positives
Sun, 8 Jul 2018 at 18:45
https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/a-billion-grains-of-rice-91202220e10e

How the EU copyright proposal will hurt the web and Wikipedia - EDRi

censorship · copyright · de-week · wikipedia
Mon, 2 Jul 2018 at 15:31
https://edri.org/how-the-eu-copyright-proposal-will-hurt-the-web-and-wikipedia/

Rogier Creemers - Leiden University

censorship · china
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 at 12:44
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/rogier-creemers/publications#tab-4

Who Has Your Back? Censorship Edition 2018 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

censorship · de-week
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 at 08:43
https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2018#major-findings-and-trends

‘Apple blokkeert updates Telegram onder druk van Rusland’ - NRC

apple · censorship
Fri, 1 Jun 2018 at 20:15
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/05/31/apple-blokkeert-updates-telegram-onder-druk-van-rusland-a1604939

EFF and Coalition Partners Push Tech Companies To Be More Transparent and Accountable About Censoring User Content | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called on Facebook, Google, and other social media companies today to publicly report how many user posts they take down, provide users with detailed explanations about takedowns, and implement appeals policies to boost accountability....
censorship · de-week · moderation
Mon, 7 May 2018 at 15:09
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-and-coalition-partners-push-tech-companies-be-more-transparent-and-accountable

Signal >> Blog >> Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention

The idea behind domain fronting was that to block a single site, you’d have to block the rest of the internet as well. In the end, the rest of the internet didn’t like that plan.
censorship · de-week · signal
Wed, 2 May 2018 at 00:01
https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/

Why YouTube Shouldn’t Over-Rely on Artificial Intelligence to Police Its Platform

Social media companies are under tremendous pressure to police their platforms.
censorship · youtube
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 00:56
https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/why-youtube-shouldnt-over-rely-artificial-intelligence

#119 No More Safe Harbor by Reply All from Gimlet Media

censorship · de-week
Sat, 21 Apr 2018 at 00:59
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/119-no-more-safe-harbor#episode-player

The upside of big tech is Russia vs Telegram, but the downside is Cloudflare vs SESTA

The upside of big tech is Russia vs Telegram, but the downside is Cloudflare vs SESTA
anti-trust · censorship · de-week · decentralization
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 at 16:17
https://boingboing.net/2018/04/19/race-to-the-bottom-2.html

A Google update just created a big problem for anti-censorship tools - The Verge

Domain-fronting is now a thing of the past
censorship · de-week · website-blocking
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 at 08:36
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/18/17253784/google-domain-fronting-discontinued-signal-tor-vpn

Facebook censoring reports of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar: report | TheHill

Rohingya activists tell the publication that their accounts are frequently suspended or taken down as they post videos and photos showing the military persecuting them.
censorship · facebook
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 at 19:39
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/351240-facebook-censoring-reports-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-burma-report

Egypt: more than 500 sites blocked ahead of the presidential election

Egypt's severe online censorship and crackdown on civil society threatens human rights during the election period.
censorship · egypt
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 at 20:39
https://www.accessnow.org/egypt-more-than-500-sites-blocked-ahead-of-the-presidential-election/

Private Censorship Is Not the Best Way to Fight Hate or Defend Democracy: Here Are Some Better Ideas | Electronic Frontier Foundation

From Cloudflare’s headline-making takedown of the Daily Stormer last autumn to YouTube’s summer restrictions on LGBTQ content, there's been a surge in “voluntary” platform censorship. Companies—under pressure from lawmakers, shareholders, and the public alike—have ramped up restrictions on speech,...
censorship · de-week · hate-speech · website-blocking
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 at 22:39
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/private-censorship-not-best-way-fight-hate-or-defend-democracy-here-are-some

Facebook declines to say why it deletes certain political accounts, but not others | US news | The Guardian

Civil liberties groups raise concerns company is ‘picking and choosing’ politicians to censor at US government request after Chechen leader’s accounts deleted
censorship · facebook
Sun, 7 Jan 2018 at 11:14
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/04/facebook-chechnya-ramzan-kadyrov-political-censorship

Zo probeert Iran het internet aan banden te leggen en protestberichtgeving te blokkeren - Buitenland - Voor nieuws, achtergronden en columns

bof-media · censorship · china · iran
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 at 21:01
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/zo-probeert-iran-het-internet-aan-banden-te-leggen-en-protestberichtgeving-te-blokkeren~a4552334/

Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments

censorship · facebook · israel
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 at 10:10
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-deleting-accounts-at-the-direction-of-the-u-s-and-israeli-governments/

Telegram is shutting down a channel that called for violent protests against Iran’s government - Recode

"There are lines one shouldn’t cross," says the CEO of the popular messaging app.
censorship · iran
Sun, 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10
https://www.recode.net/2017/12/30/16833542/telegram-iran-demostrations-messaging-protests-pavel-durov

WeChat begins censoring users ahead of China’s National Party Congress | TechCrunch

censorship · china · social-media
Sat, 9 Dec 2017 at 22:19
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/17/wechat-china-national-party-congress-censorship/

Even Trump Is Vulnerable to Internet Chaos - The Atlantic

In the same day, the president of the United States and many local journalists both suffered the precariousness of life online.
censorship · de-week
Sat, 4 Nov 2017 at 00:19
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/11/sorry-that-page-doesnt-exist/544934/

As U.S. Confronts Internet’s Disruptions, China Feels Vindicated - NYTimes.com

censorship · china · de-week
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 at 00:28
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/world/asia/china-internet-cyber-control.html

YouTube Suspends Account of Chinese Dissident

YouTube has suspended the video account of popular Chinese dissident Guo Wengui amid a mounting pressure from the Beijing government.
censorship · china · google
Sun, 22 Oct 2017 at 12:39
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/youtube-suspends-account-chinese-dissident/

Facebook ad ban over nude artwork shocks women's not-for-profit

Tote bag created by artist Frances Cannon features two nude women dancing but was ‘in no way meant to be controversial’
censorship · facebook
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 at 16:58
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/13/facebook-advertising-ban-leaves-not-for-profit-dumbfounded

Rose McGowan suspended from Twitter after Ben Affleck tweets | Technology | The Guardian

Actor who has spoken out in Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal is banned in move that will reignite controversy around Twitter abuse rules
censorship · twitter
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 at 12:30
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/12/rose-mcgowan-twitter-suspended-ben-affleck-harvey-weinstein

Hoe Facebook mijn artikel met foto’s van dikke billen verwijderde

Je publiceert dat stuk. En meteen na publicatie wordt het verwijderd door Facebook. Hoe kan dat?
beauty · censorship · de-week · facebook
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 at 07:06
https://decorrespondent.nl/7437/hoe-facebook-mijn-artikel-met-fotos-van-dikke-billen-verwijderde/124392288306-99b8db1c

Digital repression and resistance during the #CatalanReferendum

censorship · de-week · spain
Thu, 5 Oct 2017 at 11:26
https://xnet-x.net/en/digital-repression-and-resistance-catalan-referendum/

OONI - Evidence of Internet Censorship during Catalonia's Independence Referendum

censorship · de-week · spain
Thu, 5 Oct 2017 at 11:25
https://ooni.torproject.org/post/internet-censorship-catalonia-independence-referendum/

No justification for internet censorship during Catalan referendum

The ruthless efficiency with which the Spanish government censored the internet ahead of the referendum on Catalan independence foreshadowed the severity of its crackdown at polling places on 1 October. EDRi member Electronic Frontier Foundation previously wrote about one aspect of that censorship; the raid of the .cat top-level domain registry. But there was much …
censorship · de-week
Thu, 5 Oct 2017 at 01:01
https://edri.org/no-justification-for-internet-censorship-during-catalan-referendum/

Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship - Slashdot

censorship · de-week
Sun, 24 Sep 2017 at 09:43
https://m.slashdot.org/story/331635

Measuring Internet Censorship in Cuba's ParkNets | The Tor Blog

Image by Arturo Filastò (CC-BY-SA-3.0)
censorship · cuba · de-week · tor
Mon, 28 Aug 2017 at 23:00
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/measuring-internet-censorship-cubas-parknets

Google says AI better than humans at scrubbing extremist YouTube content | Technology | The Guardian

censorship · google · machine-learning · terrorism
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 at 16:13
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/01/google-says-ai-better-than-humans-at-scrubbing-extremist-youtube-content

For the sake of “real” news, Google must build public oversight of its new search algorithm » The Privacy Surgeon

censorship · de-week · fake-news · google
Tue, 22 Aug 2017 at 08:05
http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/incision/for-the-sake-of-real-news-google-must-build-public-oversight-of-its-new-search-algorithm-fakenews/

50,000 Users Test New Anti-Censorship Tool TapDance

censorship · de-week
Mon, 21 Aug 2017 at 07:38
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/9maR58saLTM/50000-users-test-new-anti-censorship-tool-tapdance

How activists of color lose battles against Facebook’s moderator army | Reveal

black-struggle · censorship · de-week · facebook · freedom-of-speech
Sat, 19 Aug 2017 at 23:05
https://www.revealnews.org/article/how-activists-of-color-lose-battles-against-facebooks-moderator-army/

Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression

In the wake of Charlottesville, both GoDaddy and Google have refused to manage the domain registration for the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that, in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Center, is “dedicated to spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism.” Subsequently...
censorship · de-week · dns · freedom-of-speech · hate-speech
Fri, 18 Aug 2017 at 07:39
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/fighting-neo-nazis-future-free-expression

Apple's China VPN Crackdown Is Just the Latest in a Long Line of Companies Caving | WIRED

By pulling VPN apps from the App Store in China, Apple joins a long list of tech companies that have given in to censorship.
apple · censorship · china
Sat, 5 Aug 2017 at 00:30
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship

China's Censors Can Now Erase Images Mid-Transmission

censorship · china
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 at 19:16
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~3/pQIVWKvr5eU/chinas-censors-can-now-erase-images-mid-transmission

China orders mobile app stores to remove VPN apps

China orders mobile app stores to remove VPN apps
censorship · china · de-week · vpn
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 at 23:02
http://boingboing.net/2017/06/27/great-firewall-with-apps.html

Hard Questions: How We Counter Terrorism | Facebook Newsroom

In the wake of recent terror attacks, people have questioned the role of tech companies in fighting terrorism online.
artificial-intelligence · censorship · de-week · encryption · facebook · terrorism
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 at 05:28
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/how-we-counter-terrorism/

Facebook blocks Chechnya activist page in latest case of wrongful censorship

The barring of a non-terrorist group for ‘terrorist activity’ sparks debate – again – about how overloaded moderators can handle content fairly and accurately
censorship · facebook
Thu, 8 Jun 2017 at 13:57
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/06/facebook-chechnya-political-activist-page-deleted

The Facebook president and Zuck's racist rulebook

When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump.
censorship · de-week · facebook · hate-speech
Sun, 4 Jun 2017 at 11:47
https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/26/the-facebook-president-and-zucks-racist-rulebook/

No 'sex' please, we're a tech company: Nest's prudish smart camera launch | Technology | The Guardian

censorship · google
Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 12:20
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/31/nest-smart-camera-no-sex-please-tech-company-simone-de-beauvoir

Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence | News | The Guardian

Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant’s ethics
censorship · de-week · facebook · harassment
Mon, 22 May 2017 at 08:07
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/may/21/revealed-facebook-internal-rulebook-sex-terrorism-violence

Turken kunnen niet meer op Wikipedia | TROUW

censorship · turkey · wikipedia
Sat, 29 Apr 2017 at 15:41
https://www.trouw.nl/democratie/turken-kunnen-niet-meer-op-wikipedia~a8323c24/

Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets criticizing United Airlines

censorship · twitter
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 at 17:12
https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2017/04/11/twitter-delete-united-airlines-tweets/

After 12 Rejections, Apple Accepts App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes

Simply notifying people of drone strikes — and the lives they take — was previously deemed "excessively objectionable or crude."
apple · censorship · drones
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 at 21:46
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/28/after-12-rejections-apple-accepts-app-that-tracks-u-s-drone-strikes/

Civil rights groups urge Facebook to fix 'racially biased' moderation system

A coalition of more than 70 social and racial justice organizations urged Facebook to adopt reforms that would better target abusive content and harassment
black-struggle · censorship · de-week · diversity · facebook
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 at 07:44
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/18/facebook-moderation-racial-bias-black-lives-matter

Male or female? Genderless Nipples account challenges Instagram's sexist standards

Instagram bans female nipples, but closeup images make it difficult – if not impossible – to tell whether they are male or female
censorship · de-week · feminism · instagram
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 at 07:41
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/19/genderless-nipples-generates-50000-followers-on-instagram

Facebook blocks photo of Neptune statue for being 'explicitly sexual' | World news | The Guardian

Social network admits error after photo of 16th-century statue in Piazza del Nettuno was blocked for showing the body ‘to an excessive degree’
censorship · facebook
Sun, 8 Jan 2017 at 18:12
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/02/facebook-blocks-nude-neptune-statue-bologna-italy

Encryption App ‘Signal’ Fights Censorship With a Clever Workaround | WIRED

A technique called "domain fronting" makes the app's encrypted traffic look no different from a Google search.
censorship · de-week · signal
Thu, 22 Dec 2016 at 14:00
https://www.wired.com/2016/12/encryption-app-signal-fights-censorship-clever-workaround/

Turkije blokkeert website NOS

Cookiewall
censorship
Thu, 22 Dec 2016 at 13:36
http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/39681/nbsp/article/detail/4437931/2016/12/21/Turkije-blokkeert-website-NOS.dhtml?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=trouwnieuws

Twitter founder feels 'complicated' about Donald Trump's tweeting | Technology | The Guardian

censorship · twitter
Thu, 8 Dec 2016 at 12:58
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/07/twitter-donald-trump-tweeting-jack-dorsey

Analyzing WeChat

censorship · china
Fri, 2 Dec 2016 at 07:58
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/analyzing_wecha.html

UK to censor online videos of 'non-conventional' sex acts

Campaigners label bill targeted at online pornography a ‘prurient’ intervention that will take Britain’s censorship regime back to pre-internet era
censorship · de-week · porn
Thu, 24 Nov 2016 at 00:20
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/23/censor-non-conventional-sex-acts-online-internet-pornography

'Twee derde van internetgebruikers heeft last van censuur'

Twee derde van alle internetgebruikers woont in landen waar kritiek op de overheid, het leger of het koningshuis wordt gecensureerd. 
censorship · privacy-opinion
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 at 11:02
http://www.nu.nl/tech/4350417/twee-derde-van-internetgebruikers-wereldwijd-heeft-last-van-censuur.html

Comedy writer has exactly the right response to his kid's Fahrenheit 451 permission slip / Boing Boing

Comedy writer has exactly the right response to his kid's Fahrenheit 451 permission slip
censorship
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 at 14:06
http://boingboing.net/2016/10/25/comedy-writer-has-exactly-the.html

Zuckerberg proves he is Facebook's editor by allowing Trump's hate speech | Technology | The Guardian

Deciding to make judgments about the newsworthiness of content is a major shift for the social media platform whose CEO insists it is ‘not a media company’
censorship · facebook
Sat, 22 Oct 2016 at 19:24
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-trump-hate-speech-censorship

Input from Community and Partners on our Community Standards

As always, our goal is to channel our community's values, and to make sure our policies reflect our community's interests.
censorship · facebook
Sat, 22 Oct 2016 at 19:01
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/10/input-from-community-and-partners-on-our-community-standards/

Facebook censors Le Monde's mammogram screening photo

Social networking company apologises after picture of woman having mammogram with her breast exposed falls foul of its anti-nipple policy
censorship · facebook
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 at 01:29
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/12/facebook-censors-le-monde-mammogram-screening-photo-breast-anti-nipple-policy

Facebook weigerde advertentie met foto van vrouw met brandwonden

Volgens de Brandwondenstichting heeft Facebook een advertentie afgekeurd die was bedoeld om de komende collecteweek te promoten. De advertentie bevat een foto van een jonge vrouw met brandwonden in het gezicht.
censorship · facebook
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 at 00:56
http://www.nu.nl/tech/4334238/facebook-weigert-advertentie-met-foto-van-vrouw-met-brandwonden.html

Facebook Versus the Media

Facebook is in trouble with the media again, guilty of stupidity by apathy. Still, the media itself hasn't exactly caught up with the reality of the Internet.
anti-trust · censorship · facebook
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 at 23:34
https://stratechery.com/2016/facebook-versus-the-media/

Facebook temporarily blocks Black Lives Matter activist after he posts racist email | Technology | The Guardian

The ban against Shaun King, which was revoked as a ‘mistake’ hours later, is the latest incident of site censoring users following Vietnam war photo removal
black-struggle · censorship · facebook
Tue, 13 Sep 2016 at 05:06
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/12/facebook-blocks-shaun-king-black-lives-matter

Facebook backs down from 'napalm girl' censorship and reinstates photo | Technology | The Guardian

Company U-turns on its decision to remove the iconic Vietnam war photo featuring a naked girl after global outcry and accusations of ‘abusing power’
censorship · facebook
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 at 10:26
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/facebook-reinstates-napalm-girl-photo

Facebook deletes Norwegian PM's post as 'napalm girl' row escalates | Technology | The Guardian

Erna Solberg shared photo that had resulted in writer and newspaper falling foul of social media giant’s rules
censorship · facebook
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 at 10:20
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/facebook-deletes-norway-pms-post-napalm-girl-post-row

Facebook rejects censorship criticism over ‘napalm girl’ photo – POLITICO

censorship · facebook
Fri, 9 Sep 2016 at 21:42
http://www.politico.eu/blogs/spence-on-media/2016/09/facebook/

Mark Zuckerberg accused of abusing power after Facebook deletes 'napalm girl' post | Technology | The Guardian

censorship · facebook
Fri, 9 Sep 2016 at 21:39
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-napalm-girl-photo-vietnam-war

Creators Call Out YouTube For Demonetizing Videos - Slashdot

advertising · censorship · youtube
Fri, 2 Sep 2016 at 23:39
http://m.slashdot.org/story/315745

Inside Instagram’s Long Guerrilla War on Porn—and the Users Who Keep Coming Back

censorship · instagram
Fri, 26 Aug 2016 at 18:18
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/theslice/inside-instagrams-long-guerrilla-war-on-porn
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