2020-6-19 16:47 |
Removing monuments to fit the values of the day is not censorship. It is an act of speech in and of itself, says our columnist. origin »
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As the debate over free speech and internet censorship intensifies, social media platforms are seeking different ways to preserve freedom of expression without raising the hackles of users and regulators.
2020-2-18 14:09 | |
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Freedom is a fundamental right — but, when it comes to the Internet and social media, some governments have been restrictive. The issue of freedom of speech risen again in Canada as the government reportedly plans to censor its citizens’ social media activities.
2019-10-22 17:18 | |
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The latest skirmishes in the bruising trade war between the U.S. and China have led to the unlikely politicization of the NBA. But how did the views of a basketball executive become such a political football? And what does China’s ideological commitment to censorship say about the value of free speech and of free speech […] The post Bitcoin Is a Weapon for Free Speech in the Face of Government and Corporate Censorship appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-10-15 17:30 | |
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With growing concerns about a perceived censorship bias on social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, the demand for censorship-resistant social media networks is on the rise. A number of blockchain startups aim to use a decentralized model to preserve free speech in the digital age. But can a fully decentralized social media platform work?
2019-6-24 23:00 | |
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Crypto Twitter is embroiled in a heated debate over whether to suspend the controversial @Bitcoin account. Bitcoin maximalists call for its removal for violating Twitter’s terms of service and for false advertising, defenders of Bitcoin Cash and free speech are resistant to what they describe as “censorship.
2019-4-23 14:39 | |
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Vitalik Buterin opines on censorship within the cryptosphere, analyzing when it is acceptable and parsing out the differences between private and public censorship.
2019-4-18 20:28 | |
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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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Censorship is on the rise. The dream of an open, horizontal, internet where anyone can freely participate and communicate with all, is turning into a hierarchical internet where public spaces. . .
2019-3-8 18:17 | |
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s legal counsel Vijaya Gadde, Youtuber Joe Rogan and independent journalist Tim Pool engaged in a wide ranging debate on censorship and free speech over more.
2019-3-6 19:19 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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Blockchain has a new unexpected hero: Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. Although up until recently the cryptocurrency community would routinely grill Dorsey over Twitter’s notorious Bitcoin giveaway scam epidemic, the micro-blogging service’s chief has found a new fandom among staunch Bitcoin supporters; and it all began on the Joe Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience.
2019-2-12 20:08 | |
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Pro-Bitcoin Gab Founder Loses Coinbase Account, Calls For DEXs Gab. com, an up-and-coming social media platform that advocates for free speech is by no means, ironically enough, a stranger to financial censorship.
2019-1-6 00:13 | |
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A fresh wound has opened in the culture war, and this time money is the blade. In recent days, a number of prominent Youtubers and other content creators have abandoned the crowdfunding platform Patreon in protest at the deplatforming of “Sargon of Akkad” aka Carl Benjamin.
2018-12-18 23:30 | |
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On the latest episode of Season 2 of Distributed Dialogues, the hosts took a deep dive into the state of political repression in the People’s Republic of China.
2018-10-31 21:00 | |
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Governments and corporations have deployed censorship to limit speech and deprive people of vital communication channels. The ruling elite are trying to shush activists and freethinkers, but they are losing control and lashing out in frustration.
2018-10-16 12:50 | |
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A few days ago, about a dozen articles and campaign sites criticizing EU plans for copyright censorship machines silently vanished from the world’s most popular search engine. Proving their point in the most blatant possible way, the sites were removed by exactly what they were warning of: Copyright censorship machines.
2018-8-20 16:59 | |
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The Great Firewall of China is the largest-scale internet censorship operation in the world. The Chinese state says the firewall is there to promote societal harmony within an increasing population of billions of people.
2018-8-6 15:42 | |
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Sapien Network is creating a tokenized, democratized, reputation-based, Web 3.0, social news platform that will give users back control of their data, reward content creators, and fight fake news. They are looking to leverage the latest Blockchain technologies to build a platform that is immune to censorship, guards free speech, respects user privacy, and persists […]
2018-8-1 02:26 | |
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Cryptocurrency, a technology based upon principles of transparency, accountability, and censorship-resistance, is facing further censorship. Blogging service Medium joins a long list of platforms to have clamped down on crypto content together with Facebook, Google, and Mailchimp.
2018-6-20 20:20 | |
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