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[Link] Telegram Copyright Takedowns Breed a Hydra of Z-Library Bots

Read: 4/12/2022 torrentfreak.com

The U.S. Government's crackdown against Z-Library continues to make waves online. After the main domain names were seized, many book pirates switched to using alternatives such as Telegram bots. Several of these have since been removed by rightsholders.

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[Link] Cops Tried Playing Disney Music to Censor a Video

Read: 10/4/2022 www.vice.com

This time, it’s Disney. Around 11 p.m. on Monday in Santa Ana, a city just south of Los Angeles, a YouTuber with a channel called Santa Ana Audits started recording a group of police investigating a car theft in his neighborhood.

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[Link] Transparency Org Releases Alleged Leak of Russian Censorship Agency

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

Transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets has released what it says is 800GB of data from a section of Roskomnadzor, the Russian government body responsible for censorship in the country.

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[Link] Morrison government asks Facebook, Twitter and Google to block Russian state media ‘disinformation’

Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

The Australian government has asked Facebook, Twitter, Google and other digital platforms to block content generated by Russian state media to curb “disinformation in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine”.

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[Link] ‘Fight Club’ Gets Back Its Anarchic Ending in China

Read: 7/2/2022 www.vice.com

The 1999 film by David Fincher originally ends with the Narrator (Edward Norton) killing his split personality Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), and then watching all the buildings blow up, suggesting Tyler’s anarchist plan to destroy consumerist society is afoot.

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[Link] Fight Club author praises Chinese cut of film: ‘Super wonderful!’

Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com

The author of Fight Club has praised the “happy ending” afforded to David Fincher’s film of his book for a new Chinese cut of the movie. Chuck Palahniuk described the change, in which the police successfully foil an anarchist plot and the heroes are incarcerated, as “SUPER wonderful”.

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[Link] TikTok Accountants Aren't the Same People Who Help You File Your Taxes

Read: 6/12/2021 www.distractify.com

Jan. 6 2021, Published 11:38 a.m. ET As TikTok continues to dominate the imagination of many people across the country, the social media app and its users have begun to develop a set of unique terms that are largely used only on the platform.

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[Link] Women’s Tennis Just Called China’s Bluff

Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has suspended its tournaments in China over Beijing’s silencing of tennis player Peng Shuai, demanding an investigation into her sexual assault allegation against a former leader of the ruling Communist Party.

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[Link] Twitter Is Going to Make It Harder To Share Videos and Pictures Taken in Public

Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com

Twitter is expanding its policy on posting private information with the goal of limiting the risk of harassment, intimidation, and doxing.

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[Link] Facebook lets Kazakh govt directly flag harmful content, joint statement says

Read: 4/11/2021 www.reuters.com

ALMATY, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Facebook owner Meta Platforms (FB.O) has granted the Kazakh government access to its content reporting system, after the Central Asian nation threatened to block the social network for millions of local users.

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[Link] Chinese Censorship in Overdrive After Tennis Star Accuses Ex-Top Leader of Sexual Assault

Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com

Peng Shuai, a former Wimbledon doubles champion, alleged on Tuesday night she was coerced into having sex with ex-Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli three years ago. The claims, which have not been corroborated, were posted on her verified account on the microblogging site Weibo.

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