OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
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Facebook's new "Widely Viewed Content" report doesn't provide meaningful transparency, and seems to be full of errors and spam
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King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software
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Let's get Right to Repair passed!
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Supreme Court of the United States Justice Clarence Thomas argues for regulating large internet platforms as common carriers
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Twitter: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders
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Big Tech critic Tim Wu joins Joe Biden administration to work on US competition policy
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Joe Manchin's bid to pierce US tech's shield
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Google has suspended the Element Matrix client from the Play Store due to abusive content (It's back)
@Element: Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://t.co/aaZ9qXz69W but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
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Twitter announces Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation
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Italy takes action against TikTok following girl’s death
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US President Joe Biden's Federal Communications Commission appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
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Twitter requests deletion of three inciteful tweets from Donald Trump. If tweets remain undeleted, account will remain locked.
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Open-source developer and manager David Recordon named White House Director of Technology
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Twitter will force users to delete COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories
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European Commission proposes Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: New rules for all digital services, including social media, online marketplaces, and other platforms operating in the EU
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EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
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Finland's parliament approved a bill designed to protect its networks against cyber threats and espionage – may be used to exclude China's Huawei and ZTE
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Open letter from Facebook content moderators re: pandemic
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Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
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Sweden is banning equipment from Chinese telecommunication firms Huawei and ZTE from its new 5G network
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Facebook is updating their hate speech policy to prohibit and remove Holocaust Denial content
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EARN IT Act introduced in US House of Representatives
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President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist
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A crash course in CDA Section 230, and a discussion between two lawyers about the EARN IT Act and what it means for free speech and privacy online
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Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout
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Here’s Donald Trump’s plan to regulate social media
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US phone carriers may soon be able to block all calls from robocallers' carriers
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Reddit releases their new content policy along with banning hundreds of subreddits, including /r/The_Donald and /r/ChapoTrapHouse
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United Kingdom to ban Huawei equipment in 2021 and remove it from 5G networks by 2027
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Indian government bans fifty-nine Chinese apps for security reasons
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US officials are ramping up criticism of the GDPR, which they say protects cybercriminals
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Pressure mounts as Starbucks, Coca-Cola join Facebook ad boycott; Facebook updates policy
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Terrible, dangerous EARN IT act set to move forward in the senate; attack on both encryption and free speech online
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Google starts deleting location history after eighteen months, by default
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Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
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Facebook vowed to investigate horrific abuse by anti-vaxxers. Nine months later, no one was penalized.
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#YouDownloadTheAppAndItDoesntWork — Highlighting hypocrisy and double standards on Apple's App Store
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CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet
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We mapped where Customs and Border Protection drones are flying in the US and beyond
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One Twitter account is reposting everything US President Donald Trump tweets. It was suspended within three days.
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US President Donald Trump signs executive order designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content users post on their platforms
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Google to require all advertisers to pass identity verification process
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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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Policy vs technology
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POTS: protective optimization technologies
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Our neophobic, conservative AI overlords want everything to stay the same
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Some Reddit comments are being hidden by default as "potentially toxic content" (i.e. a swear filter)
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US blacklists Chinese tech firms over treatment of Uighurs
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Alex Stamos on legal issues for US tech companies sharing with foreign governments
5 votes