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Enlarge (credit: Smith Collection/Gado / Contributor | Archive Photos) For the past year, Texas has been fighting in court to uphold a controversial law that would ban tech companies from content moderation based on viewpoints. In May, the Supreme Court narrowly blocked the law, but this seemed to do little to settle the matter. Today, […]
TV legend John Challis criticised plans to censor classic British sitcoms like Only Fools and Horses for being “offensive” to modern audiences. British streaming service Britbox – a subscription service led by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 – was launched earlier this month. However, its decision to “censor” and attach sensitivity warnings to shows […]
PragerU/Youtube Facebook apologized to a right-wing non-profit group after it blocked some of its videos, making them invisible to its followers. Facebook said the removal of the videos was a mistake, and they have been restored. PragerU seems unconvinced, claiming the removal was an act of deliberate censorship. Facebook has apologized to American conservative non-profit […]
Musea en Erfgoed Antwerpen/Wikimedia Commons Facebook has been ridiculed for censoring nude paintings by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. A group of Flemish museums penned a playful letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking to discuss the matter. The Flemish tourist board also made a video poking fun at Facebook, showing social media agents preventing […]
REUTERS/Aly Song China’s Sina Weibo on Monday reversed a decision to censor gay content after outcry among gay Chinese who say the company had smeared homosexuality by lumping it with pornography. China’s Twitter-equivalent Weibo said on Friday it would remove pornographic, violent or gay videos and cartoons, especially a genre of manga animations and comics that […]
NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images China’s Quora-like Q&A app, Zhihu, has been temporarily removed from local app stores. Zhihu was accused by China’s cyber watchdog for spreading “illegal information.” It’s unknown what information this was, but the order came days after countless posts on China’s plan to scrap presidential term limits were censored on other apps. The […]
Opinion: Google, Twitter, and Signal should take steps to ensure their tools aren’t restricting Iranian’s free speech. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a567427b1cfb87f3206aaa2/master/pass/IranInternet-TopArt-RTX3686L.jpg
Anti-cyberbullying laws are noble, but attempting to punish online speech is tough. Digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) claimed that Washington state’s anti-cyberbullying legislation goes too far — and ends up censoring speech instead. The law is designed to protect against cyberstalking specifically by punishing harassment online. The EFF came out against it when […]
YouTube says it has fixed the issue that made Restricted Mode a bit too restrictive. The option was supposed to make the website more suitable for minors when switched on, but its older version also filtered out millions of harmless videos, including hundreds of thousands featuring LGBTQ+ themes. It affected Canadian indie pop duo Tegan […]
