Facebook is notorious for censoring individuals based on their political beliefs. But The Guardian newspaper has rushed to the defense of the company’s moderators, saying they are left with “psychological scars” and “pushed towards the far right by the amount of hate speech and fake news they read every day.” One of Facebook’s contractors told The […]
EU courts have ruled that it is now illegal to resell ebooks. Previously, the resale of ebooks was thought to be protected under the exhaustion of intellectual property rights. The precedent for this thought was the 2012 ruling by the EU court which legalized the resale of used software licenses. The 2012 ruling outlined that once […]
Raheem Kassam, former senior advisor to Nigel Farage and former editor-in-chief of both Breitbart London and Human Events, has been temporarily banned from Facebook as the Brexit deadline rapidly approaches, with no reason given. Kassam, one of the original ‘Bad Boys of Brexit’, has helped disseminate pro Brexit messages with to his large fan following […]
The Trump administration has refused to join other G7 countries in signing up to a “hate speech charter” which would have taken direct aim at American’s First Amendment rights. According to Reuters: The United States did not sign up to a charter against online hate speech at the G7 summit for legal reasons, French President […]
A Clinton-supporting psychologist has blasted back against his preferred, failed Presidential candidate after she referred to a report written by him, on the dangers of Google’s online dominance, as “debunked”. Hillary Clinton was firing back against President Trump’s claim that Google influenced the 2016 election cycle by leading users to more pro-Clinton and anti-Trump coverage. […]
Facebook has removed President Trump’s pro-women re-election advertisements, according to reports from tech site Gizmodo, as well as the left-wing Popular Information blog that reported a “violation” of Facebook’s terms and conditions. Facebook policy states advertisers may not have “direct or indirect assertions or implications” about race, ethnicity, gender and sexual identity, religion, or financial […]
Not enough people know this. London’s Mayor, Sadiq Khan, once represented the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan – recently banned from Facebook and Instagram during the Day of the Long Knives purge. Before he became the worst mayor London has ever had, Khan was a lawyer. As the Chicago Tribune put it, he was “very much in Farrakhan’s […]
For someone so awkward with technology, Elizabeth Warren is seemingly on the right side of the debate concerning the world’s tech giants. Take a swig, Liz. “Today’s big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy,” Warren said, sounding more like a conservative scorned (like me) than someone whose […]
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