Surprise, Donald Trump Has No Idea How Internet Censorship Works
Trump is on a bizarre crusade for an American takeover of the internet’s address book in the name of freedom of speech.
Trump is on a bizarre crusade for an American takeover of the internet’s address book in the name of freedom of speech.
Earlier this week, however, Facebook effectively banned the photograph from its own site. Now the site is backtracking as quickly as it can.
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to create an algorithm to filter out abusive and hateful language, according to a Buzzfeed report.
China says it wants to stop the spread of false news, but detractors see it as further moves to control public opinion.
Australia reportedly couldn’t bear the thought of putting certain inconvenient truths together on paper.
Well, fuck. I am truly devastated.
Finally, some good news for the print pornography market.
Swamp pages with nice things.
Flip-flops and bins detective post to avoid triggering a mistrial.
Bizarre censorship of journalist under "copyright" pretence.
So if you’re travelling to China, don’t plan on accessing the app from your phone.
Back in August reports claimed that North Korea's new airport terminal had an “internet room” which didn’t have any actual connection to the internet. That seems to have changed.
In Soviet Russia, porno was a big no-no. And while the land of Putin has loosened up in recent years, it’s still very much frowned upon.
Information wants to be free. Twitter’s making it a little less so.
It took a bloody revolution to come up with some guidelines on bannable content, but in countries where censorship is rampant, it seems much more straightforward: Cave to political pressure.
Along with some of the racier corners of the online dating world.
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