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Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers…

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Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users’ searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier for the Chinese government to monitor people’s queries, The Intercept can reveal. The search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, was designed for Android devices, and would remove content deemed sensitive by China’s ruling […]

Who Knew?: ‘Illegal Alien’ Is Deemed ‘Hateful Content’ According to Twitter Police…

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The federal government, U.S. Supreme Court, and lawyers across the country use the word “illegal alien” to describe immigrants who illegally enter the country, because that’s the definition in the law. But Twitter makes its own laws, and the social media giant is now blocking folks from promoting any messages with the phrase, which its […]

Twitter Exposes its Politically Motivated Censorship Policy in Banning of Alex Jones…

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It has been a busy month for Twitter, and Alex Jones, with Jack Dorsey forced to defend the decision not to ban Jones early last month, only reverse course by suspending Jones shortly after a tense Senate hearing on social media. The Senate hearing, in which Dorsey spoke alongside Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, […]

New Tech Watchdog to Monitor Conservative Censorship on Facebook, Twitter, Google…

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The Media Research Center, a conservative press watchdog which has long monitored liberal bias in the news media, on Thursday launchedMRC TechWatch — a new project dedicated to exposing bias and censorship online by major tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube. Overseeing the new effort: Allen West, a senior fellow at the […]

Google Is on the Verge of Making a Huge Mistake With China…

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The recent news that Google is working on a search engine for China’s highly censored Internet reminded me of a Chinese saying: “to have your spine pointed at.” Back home in China, if someone who has done something immoral or unethical is seen walking down the street, others might point at the person’s back after […]

Trust Us, We’re Secretly Working for a Foreign Government: How Australia’s Proposed Surveillance Laws Will Break the Trust Tech Depends On…

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In the last few years, we’ve discovered just how much trust — whether we like it or not — we have all been obliged to place in modern technology. Third-party software, of unknown composition and security, runs on everything around us: from the phones we carry around, to the smart devices with microphones and cameras […]

Facebook Censoring Articles from Conservative Outlets About Manafort, Cohen…

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Multiple posts sharing articles by prominent conservatives have been temporarily censored on Facebook under the excuse that they “look like spam.” Both articles dealt with the Paul Manafort conviction and the Michael Cohen guilty plea, arguing that these events were not nearly as damning to President Donald Trump as the media supposed. First, Facebook blocked […]

Press Needs to Restore Its Credibility on FBI and Justice Department…

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I will never call the mainstream media “the enemy of the people.” But I will call them out for having strayed from fairly reporting some of the biggest stories of the last two years. No matter how egregious their errors, they insist on pointing fingers elsewhere and reinforcing their political biases, in ways unimaginable to […]

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