Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content
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The uncensored library: A digital library containing suppressed articles, built inside Minecraft to bypass internet surveillance and censorship
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Censored contagion - How information on the coronavirus is managed on Chinese social media
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Four US congressional reps ask Bill Barr to restart his war on porn
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Why is Instagram deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars?
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How activists are getting around Iran’s internet blackout
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Netflix CEO defends decision to pull Patriot Act episode in Saudi Arabia, says company isn’t in ‘truth to power business’
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Australia's idiotic war on porn returns, this time using facial recognition
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NSA whistleblower dropped from Australian cyber conference at the last minute
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Twitch's latest crackdowns on 'sexual' content are leaving streamers baffled
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When limiting online speech to curb violence, we should be careful
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'Where's the line of free speech – are you removing voices that should be heard?': As YouTube struggles with extreme content, Susan Wojcicki talks about her role as the internet’s gatekeeper
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Jordan Peterson announces free speech platform Thinkspot
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Who has your back? Censorship edition 2019 - Report by the EFF that assesses major tech companies' content moderation policies
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The splinternet is growing
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EFF launches "TOSsed Out", a new project to highlight ways that Terms of Service and other rules are unevenly and unthinkingly applied to people by online services
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2600 denied access to UK stores due to fear of "negative publicity"
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When a country bans social media - Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: what if a global media network is impossible?
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Welcome to the prude internet: No more sex talk allowed
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Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa's new internet paradigm
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The internet, but not as we know it: Life online in China, Cuba, India and Russia
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Why the UK's porn block is one of the worst ideas ever
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Google takes down Artstation android app for explicit content
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Google’s secret China project “effectively ended” after internal confrontation
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Google shut out privacy and security teams from secret China project
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In Iran, state sanctioned messaging apps are the new hallmark of internet nationalisation
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China blocks website that revealed spyware and "re-education" camp monitoring
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Why are African governments criminalising online speech? Because they fear it.
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Text of u/DivestTrump's post about T_D and Russia propaganda that was deleted
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Twitch vanishes in China weeks after spike in popularity
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Google China prototype links searches to phone numbers
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Google employees are reportedly resigning over China search efforts
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Is This The Beginning Of The End For Facebook?
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Github Joins the fight against the Mandatory Webfilters on the EU Copyright Reform
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Google employees protest secret work on censored search engine for China
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Google has kicked Ahoy! the anti-censorship app from the Chrome store
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Engineers say 'no thanks' to Silicon Valley recruiters, citing ethical concerns
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Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
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A generation grows up in China without Facebook, Google, or Twitter
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Killing speech softly: How the world’s biggest tech companies are quietly censoring critical expression in the Middle East
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US Lawmakers pressure Google over "deeply troubling" China censorship project
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Google struggles to contain employee backlash over China censorship plans
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Google's devil bargain with China is a gateway to bureaucratic hell
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Google plans to launch censored search engine in China, leaked documents reveal
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The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown
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Algeria shuts down the internet for two hours to prevent leaks and cheating on exams
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Europe will vote on internet censorship on the 20th
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President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking users @realdonaldtrump
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US President Donald Trumps' Twitter is a public forum, rules federal judge: Good!
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How the Chinese government fabricates social media posts for strategic distraction, not engaged argument
14 votes