Cris de Emblème de feu s’engager La « censure » a suivi les conclusions présumées d’une datamine de la version japonaise du jeu, qui a ensuite été comparée à la version anglaise. Le changement le plus notable est la suppression des lignes de romance suggestives partagées entre les personnages mineurs. Suppression des […]
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Trump’s Big Tech lawsuit has legs and other commentary
Big Tech watch: Don’s Censorship Suit Has Legs Not so fast, counters Vivek Ramaswamy in The Wall Street Journal to the prestige press predictable dismissals of former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Big Tech censors: “There’s a strong case to be made that social-media censorship violates the Constitution.” Yes, the First […]
Trump says tech titans are not ‘immune’ from his lawsuit
Big Tech has the power to censor people’s speech in violation of the Constitution, former President Donald Trump said Sunday, but Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are not “immune” from the class-action lawsuit he filed against them last week. “They’re taking away your freedom of speech. They are taking away your […]
Two-thirds of Americans say they censor themselves: study
Roughly two-thirds of Americans say they routinely or sometimes censor themselves in conversation, according to a new study. The poll of 1,462 people found 18 percent said they censored themselves “all the time” while 48 percent said they did so “sometimes.” Fifty-nine percent of those asked deemed current levels of […]
Belarus government blocks media outlet, detains reporters
KYIV, Ukraine — Belarusian authorities blocked the website of a leading online media outlet and detained some of its journalists and several reporters from other news organizations Thursday, the latest moves in a sweeping crackdown on dissent and independent media in the ex-Soviet nation. Belarus’ Information Ministry said it has […]
Greenwald blasts Facebook for censoring COVID vaccine opinions
Journalist Glenn Greenwald is blasting Facebook for its decision to crackdown on users posting comments about the coronavirus vaccine that undermine official information being provided by “authorities.” Greenwald, a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter, said social media giants like Facebook are under immense pressure from mainstream media outlets to censor dissenting opinion. […]
Fla. Gov. DeSantis declares war on ‘Big Tech,’ citing censorship
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched an offensive against “Big Tech” on Tuesday, warning that the social media platforms are targeting politicians like former President Donald Trump now but will soon be coming for regular American citizens, vowing to combat the threat. “Today they may come after someone who looks like me. Tomorrow […]
A reckoning for teachers unions and other commentary
Libertarian: A Reckoning for Teachers Unions “Another day, another set of parents who discovered” the reopening of their kids’ schools thwarted by a politically powerful teachers union,” laments Reason’s Matt Welch. This time, it was in wealthy Montclair, NJ, whose superintendent announced Friday that schools, closed for the past 319 […]
Facebook apologizes for flagging landmark ‘Hoe’ as offensive
Residents of “the Hoe” in Plymouth, UK, are tired of being censored on social media — and ensure they are definitely not denigrating sex workers in their posts. Also dubbed Plymouth Hoe, the coastal landmark in the South of England has endured a high rate of sanctions per Facebook Community […]
Twitter locks Chinese embassy’s account over Uighur post
Twitter froze the account of China’s US embassy after it posted a tweet about Uighur Muslims that violated the platform’s policy against “dehumanization.” In the Jan. 7 tweet, the embassy claimed that Uighur women in China’s Xinjiang region had been “emancipated” and were “no longer baby-making machines.” The post was […]