News Round-Up
7 May 2024
News Round-Up
8 May 2024
The EU has issued its first list of platforms that will be subject to 'content moderation' requirements. Surprisingly, they include Amazon, Apple and Wikipedia. What censorship does the EU have planned for them?
Criticising China’s Covid lockdowns is a “microaggression”, a university has told professors, as it faces a revolt from more than a dozen of its own academics who accuse it of “policing conformity".
“Who’s to say that something is misinformation?” Musk asked the BBC interviewer. Good question. But it seems Musk's answer is the European Union, as he continues to be a member of its 'Disinformation Task-force'.
WhatsApp has threatened to leave the U.K. market over fears that the Online Safety Bill will kill end-to-end encryption and open the door to "routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance of personal messages".
It's wrong to think of free speech as a value that remains aloof from the din and confusion of partisan struggle, says law professor David McGrogan. And it needs to be defended by liberal combatants.
“City considers my data to be dangerous.” A sociologist has been blocked from publishing her study into censorship of academics over views on transgender issues. Now Dr. Favaro is bringing an employment tribunal claim.
Police are to stop recording hurt feelings and 'causing offence' on Twitter as criminal offences under a major crime shake-up by the Home Office, in some rare good news for free speech online.
Following similar label changes to U.S. public broadcasters, the BBC has been designated "Government Funded Media" on its Twitter profile. The Beeb’s leadership is now pushing back against Elon Musk’s decision.
Twitter sparked outrage among bloggers by restricting Substack links on the giant social media platform. Jack Watson, a 14 year-old who uses Substack to blog about his football team, explains how disruptive this was for him.
We're often told that cancel culture doesn't exist. But the effort to censor Pablo Picasso on the 50th anniversary of his death suggests it does and that being the greatest artist of the 20th Century offers no protection.
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