Tweets glorifying self-harm have grown 500% since October, report says

Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto) Even though Twitter’s terms of service explicitly ban posts glorifying self-harm and media depicting “visible wounds,” independent researchers report that Twitter too often seemingly looks the other way regarding self-harm. Researchers from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) estimate there are “certainly” thousands, and possibly “hundreds of thousands,” of users […]

Opposition cries censorship as Spanish rapper jailed for insulting king & glorifying terrorism

The Spanish Supreme Court has upheld a decision to jail a rapper for three and a half years for a song deemed to have glorified terrorism and insulted the crown, sparking a debate about freedom of expression in the country. The court rejected arguments on Tuesday by little-known rapper Jose Miguel Arenas Beltran, stage name […]