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10 votes
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Google Adsense is bringing a bunch of policy changes that affect how your sites are monetized
Yesterday, Adsense support sent an email to their users regarding their upcoming policy changes. This primarily affects how subdomains are monetized. Going forward, your subdomains inside the...
Yesterday, Adsense support sent an email to their users regarding their upcoming policy changes. This primarily affects how subdomains are monetized. Going forward, your subdomains inside the primary domains in the "Sites" section (www, etc.) won't be allowed, any existing ones will be removed and their rules will be merged with the primary domain (such as example.com).
Furthermore, what constitutes a "Site" will also change henceforth. You can only add a primary domain (such as example.com) and the subdomains which are listed on the public suffix list (such as github.io, blogspot.com, etc.). Thus, your own subdomains (such as xyz.example.com or www.example.com) won't be allowed in Adsense.
I don't know what they will achieve by doing this considering they already vet and audit each site before approving them for adsense? In any case, other alternatives to Adsense exist such as Propeller Ads, CJ Affiliate, etc. for those affected by this move but I don't know their efficacy.
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YouTube moderation bots will start issuing warnings, 24-hour bans
10 votes -
Astronomer incorrectly suspended from Twitter by automatic moderation
6 votes -
Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy
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Hey Elon: Let me help you speed run the content moderation learning curve
33 votes -
Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit sex
22 votes -
Welcome to hell, Elon - Nilay Patel on Elon's Twitter acquisition
35 votes -
Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and fired its top executives
43 votes -
What the Securing Open Source Software Act does and what it misses
6 votes -
New political party in Denmark, whose policies are derived entirely from artificial intelligence, hopes to stand in the country's next general election in June 2023
10 votes -
Two US senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
18 votes -
US Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out
11 votes -
Facebook, Instagram taking down posts about US abortion pills
5 votes -
Before Uvalde, a platform fails to answer kids' alarms. Tech companies keep building systems to detect violent threats. Why didn't Yubo's work?
5 votes -
"Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy" - Twenty-six well-known computer scientists send letter to Congress urging them to resist crypto lobbying
11 votes -
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
5 votes -
A new type of powerful artificial intelligence could make EU’s new law obsolete
5 votes -
Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app
9 votes -
Google, Apple remove Alexei Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
13 votes -
OnlyFans drops planned porn ban, will continue to allow sexually explicit content
35 votes -
Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
50 votes -
OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
50 votes -
Facebook's new "Widely Viewed Content" report doesn't provide meaningful transparency, and seems to be full of errors and spam
5 votes -
SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas argues for regulating large internet platforms as common carriers
21 votes -
Twitter: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders
14 votes -
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.
31 votes -
Twitter announces Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation
21 votes -
US President Joe Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
10 votes -
Twitter will force users to delete COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories
11 votes -
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
4 votes -
Trump promises to veto crucial defense-spending bill unless it includes a full repeal of CDA 230, the law that protects online platforms from liability
27 votes -
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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Facebook is updating their hate speech policy to prohibit and remove Holocaust Denial content
16 votes -
EARN IT Act introduced in 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
8 votes -
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
5 votes -
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
16 votes -
United Kingdom to ban Huawei equipment in 2021 and remove it from 5G networks by 2027
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Reddit releases their new content policy along with banning hundreds of subreddits, including /r/The_Donald and /r/ChapoTrapHouse
85 votes -
Google starts deleting location history after eighteen months, by default
12 votes -
Terrible, dangerous EARN IT act set to move forward in the senate; attack on both encryption and free speech online
27 votes -
Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
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CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet
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One Twitter account is reposting everything Trump tweets. It was suspended within three days
34 votes