It’s not a “state actor”, so isn’t subject to 1st Amendment scrutiny and can censor PragerU’s videos on abortion, gun rights and terrorism.
Tag Archives: censorship
Russia’s sovereign internet law comes into force
The new law compels the country’s ISPs to forward all data arriving and departing from their networks through special gateway servers.
New BBC ‘dark web’ Tor mirror site aims to beat censorship
A mirror copy of the BBC’s international news website is now available to users on the so-called dark web.
Russian ISPs plan internet disconnection test for entire country
Russia’s major ISPs plan to temporarily disconnect servers from the internet, effectively cutting the country off from the outside world.
Facebook violated tough new cybersecurity law, says Vietnam
The law brought sweeping new powers, allowing authorities to force technology companies to hand over user data and to censor posts.
Google employees protest work on censored search engine for China
Hundreds signed a letter raising concerns about the moral and ethical issues of Google helping China with its censorship.
Copyright Directive legislation voted down by European Parliament
The EU has voted down controversial copyright legislation, but the war’s not over: a second vote is scheduled for September.
Google and Amazon put an end to censorship-dodging domain fronting
Privacy services relying on the unsupported feature have been left high and dry
Man calls police ‘slackers’ on Facebook, falls foul of Spain’s new ‘gag law’
Eduardo Díaz got in trouble for a tirade on the mayor’s Facebook page in which he called the local police a class of slackers.
You’ll have to stop stealing jokes on Twitter now
Ripping off other people’s stuff, even jokes, is no laughing matter!
