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Facebook urged to give users greater control over what they see

sudshr47 January 17, 2019

Academics at the universities of Oxford and Stanford think Facebook should give users greater transparency and control over the content they see on its platform. They also believe the social networking giant should radically reform its governance structures and processes to throw more light on content decisions, including by looping in more external experts to […]

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Singapore activist found guilty of hosting ‘illegal assembly’ via Skype

sudshr47 January 4, 2019

An ongoing case in Singapore is testing the legal boundaries of virtual conferences. A court in the Southeast Asian city-state this week convicted human rights activist Jolovan Wham of organizing a public assembly via Skype without a permit and refusing to sign his statement when ordered by the police. Wham will be sentenced on January 23 […]

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Elon Musk wants cave rescuer’s defamation suit dismissed

sudshr47 December 27, 2018

In a fitting end to a year of questionable tweets, Elon Musk is asking the courts to drop a defamation suit filed against him after insulting a British cave diver on Twitter this summer.

A motion to dismiss the case was filed Wednesday to the U.S. District Court in California’s Central District where Vernon Unsworth, a UK citizen, filed a complaint in September alleging Musk used defamatory language when Musk tweeted Unsworth was a “pedo guy,” then later sent an email to a BuzzFeed reporter accusing the diver of being involved in child sex trafficking. The tweets have since been deleted and Musk publicly apologized — on, you guessed it, Twitter. Read more…

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Gab came back online, and immediately filled up with anti-semitism

sudshr47 November 5, 2018

The “free speech” platform where the Pittsburgh shooter felt comfortable enough to share his intention to murder Jews came back online Sunday night. And it’s already filled back up with anti-semitism.
After the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, in which…

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Google back in court arguing against a global ‘right to be forgotten’

sudshr47 September 11, 2018

Google’s lawyers are in Europe’s top court today arguing against applying the region’s so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling globally domains, rather only geo-limiting delistings to European sub-domains (as it does now). The original rtbf ruling was also a European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision. Back in 2014 the court ruled search engines must respect Europeans’ privacy […]

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Twitter is a Nazi haven for the same reason its CEO claims no bias

sudshr47 September 4, 2018

“From a simple business perspective and to serve the public, Twitter is incentivized to keep all voices on the platform”. That’s Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s argument for why “Twitter does not use political ideology to make any decisions” according to his prepared statement for his appearance at tomorrow’s hearing with the US House Committee on […]

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President Trump forced to unblock dozens of Twitter users after court ruling

sudshr47 August 29, 2018

If the President of the United States blocks you on Twitter, that means he’s violating your First Amendment rights.

Donald Trump has been forced to unblock 41 Twitter users who had apparently irked the President on the social media platform. However, this isn’t a choice Trump willingly made. A federal judge ruled that the tweets posted on the President’s account are public forums and blocking a user violated their Constitutional right to free speech.

Back in May of this year, a judge ruled on Trump’s Twitter blocking practices after the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit on behalf of 7 Twitter users who were blocked by the President. The suit argued that Trump blocked the plaintiffs after they criticized the president, which constituted “viewpoint discrimination.” Being that the President’s Twitter, @RealDonaldTrump, is a public forum, that would be in violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan agreed with the plaintiffs. Read more…

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Here are the platforms that have banned Infowars so far

sudshr47 August 8, 2018

Over the past two-and-a-half weeks, tech platforms have taken a (if sometimes meek) stance against the far-right and conspiracy theorist content of Alex Jones by removing, banning or penalizing Jones and his podcast Infowars for breaking their community and hate speech policies. These removals signify an important moment in the history of the internet’s tug-of-war with […]