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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] 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] 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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[Link] ‘History will not judge us kindly’: Facebook employees rip Zuckerberg in leaked messages
Read: 26/10/2021 nypost.com
Facebook employees say Mark Zuckerberg’s obsession with growth has overridden ethical concerns and allowed hate speech and incitements to violence to spread unchecked, internal messages leaked to media outlets show.
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[Link] Instagram Is Punishing Users by Taking Away Their Link Stickers
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Many Instagram users saw a notification that if they have violated the platform's Community Guidelines in the past, they will no longer be allowed to use links in Stories.
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[Link] High Traffic Pirate Sites Worldwide Under Investigation, DMCA Subpoenas Reveal
Read: 11/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
The operators of around two dozen torrent sites and pirate streaming services are at risk of having their identities obtained by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment.
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[Link] VPN Hosting Company Settles Copyright Lawsuit by Blocking Pirate Sites
Read: 11/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
Hosting provider Sharktech has settled a copyright lawsuit filed by several movie companies. The service stood accused of failing to take action against VPN providers, some of whose subscribers were pirating films.
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[Link] Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Imagine waking up and checking your phone after several evenings of mass demonstrations. You try scrolling through your Twitter feed, but it won’t load. You turn your router off and on to no avail. You try texting a friend to complain, but the message fails to send. Frustrated, you walk outside.
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[Link] Wayback Machine’s 485 billion web pages blocked by Russian government order
Read: 5/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The Internet Archive—including its Wayback Machine, which currently stores 485 billion snapshots of the world's web pages at different dates—is inaccessible for some users in Russia, as a post on the Global Voices site explains.
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[Link] TekSavvy Takes Pirate Site Blocking Battle to Canada’s Supreme Court
Read: 26/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Internet provider TekSavvy is taking the legal battle over Canada's first pirate site blocking order to the Supreme Court. The company has no sympathy for pirate sites but feels that it's obligated to defend the neutral role of ISPs and prevent freedom of speech from being violated.
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[Link] YouTube says it bans accounts believed to be owned by the Taliban
Read: 26/8/2021 www.reuters.com
Aug 17 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said on Tuesday it bans accounts believed to be owned and operated by the Taliban, as U.S. social media companies scrambled to publicly clarify their rules on the group that is in control of Afghanistan. After U.S.
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[Link] Twitter Refuses to Ban Taliban Accounts, Vows to Remain ‘Vigilant’ Moderating Content
Read: 26/8/2021 www.yahoo.com
Twitter will allow Taliban-affiliated accounts to continue using its platform despite its policies against glorification of violence and threats.
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[Link] Nazis and incels are using Gotye and MGMT to evade TikTok's auto-moderators, report finds
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
While it's hardly surprising fringe groups have used social media platforms to post hateful material, experts say TikTok has birthed creative ways to distribute the content and avoid auto-takedowns.
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[Link] TorrentFreak News Article Targeted by Dubious ‘DRM Circumvention Complaint
Read: 22/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
The American Society of Composers has asked Google to remove hundreds of URLs from its search results. The flagged pages are accused of 'circumventing DRM' but the anti-piracy outfit casts its net too wide.
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[Link] Brunswick’s Good Karma Network shuts amid claims of ‘toxic positivity’, racism
Read: 22/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
It began as a place online where you could share excess lemons with your neighbours, pass on clothes your kids had outgrown or lend someone a power tool: a utopian vision of an online community sharing gifts and advice.
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[Link] Cuba’s Social Media Blackout Reflects an Alarming New Normal
Read: 27/7/2021 www.wired.com
With protests erupting around Cuba on Sunday over the country's economic crisis, food shortages, and Covid-19 infection spike, the island nation's ruling party responded by blocking access to Facebook, WhatsApp, and other popular communication and social media platforms.
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