9 Best Articles in 2022
ProPublica
Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children
ProPublica
~18 min read · From 2017 · A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
Reader View · Shared by 140, including Merkstatt, Yvette d’Entremont, Matt Navarra, Hannes Grassegger, Florian Hanke 🍎, Mathew Ingram, David Bauer, Jane, Dominic Grzbielok, Charlie O'Keefe, Leslie D, zeynep tufekci, Kim Dik
Vox
How the new banned books panic fits into America’s history of school censorship
Vox
7 min read · Feb 17th
Shared by 72, including Larry Ferlazzo, Jamil Smith جميل كريم, Jennifer Ouellette
The New York Times
Censorship, Surveillance and Profits: A Hard Bargain for Apple in China
The New York Times
~17 min read · 2021-05-17 · Apple built the world’s most valuable business on top of China. Now it has to answer to the Chinese government.
Reader View · Shared by 341, including Azeem Azhar, Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, BenYT, Evan Selinger, Paul Graham, hakan, Christopher Mims 🤌, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Matthew Green, Joshua Benton, Kevin Roose, Cory Doctorow, Tim Sweeney, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Chaotic Goode, Aral Balkan, patrick h. lauke (lazarus) #toryScum "Big Dog", Kara Swisher, Casey Newton, Ser Jeff Garzik
WIRED
The Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai Reveals the Real Purpose of China's Censorship
WIRED
2 min read · 2021-12-05 · Censorship in China is about more than topics and keywords. It’s about destroying social resources.
Shared by 66, including Backchannel
The Atlantic
How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw
The Atlantic
10 min read · From 2020 · China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.
Reader View · Shared by 252, including Martin Steiger 🔥, Merkstatt, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nicolas Granatino 🌻, Nico Luchsinger, Gerd Leonhard, Cory Doctorow, Mathew Ingram, Matthias Lampe, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy, zeynep tufekci, Vikram Dutt, Agnese Folli, Klaus Eck, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (He/Him)
Protocol
I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
Protocol
6 min read · 2021-02-19 · I wasn't proud of it, and neither were my coworkers. But that's life in today's China.
Reader View · Shared by 226, including Chris Isak , Kevin Kelly, Neeraj K. Agrawal, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Ajit Pai, Elena Neira, Bjorn Larsen, Katja Evertz, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Matt Navarra, Tomio Geron, hakan, hardmaru, Dirk von Gehlen, Kyle Chayka
The New York Times
Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?
The New York Times
6 min read · From 2018 · Tech employees concerned their products are being deployed for government surveillance or censorship are increasingly asking their employers how the technology is being used.
Reader View · Shared by 212, including Niklaus Gerber, Dominik Grolimund, Jane, Merkstatt, Jeremiah Owyang jowyang.eth, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, sull, John Battelle, Bjorn Larsen, Jason Fried, Kim Dik, Gideonro, DHH, Michael Duergner, Florian Hanke 🍎, Gerd Leonhard, Azeem Azhar, Carl Morris
The Washington Post
The culture wars next frontier: Public libraries
The Washington Post
Apr 17th · The battle that started in schools has spread to public libraries - a dangerous expansion of secret censorship happening across the country, opponents say.
Shared by 208, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, sonia, ACLU, David Weigel, Karen K. Ho, Ernie Smith, John Schwartz, Brendan Nyhan, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈, Ken Schwencke, Alberto Cairo, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Ida Bae Wells, Dan Gillmor
The Washington Post
TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience
The Washington Post
From 2019 · Social media has been a quintessentially American journey rooted in ideas about creative expression and freedom of speech. But the rise of the Chinese video app TikTok could signal an end to Western dominance of the Internet’s megaphones — and an ideological change in what people see on the Web.
Shared by 51, including Gerrit Eicker, Dr. Simon A. Rego, Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Neeraj K. Agrawal, John Koetsier, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Alec Couros, George M 🇪🇺, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙
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The Washington Post
The culture wars next frontier: Public libraries
The Washington Post
Apr 17th · The battle that started in schools has spread to public libraries - a dangerous expansion of secret censorship happening across the country, opponents say.
Shared by 208, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, sonia, ACLU, David Weigel, Karen K. Ho, Ernie Smith, John Schwartz, Brendan Nyhan, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈, Ken Schwencke, Alberto Cairo, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Ida Bae Wells, Dan Gillmor
CNN
Texas has declared open season on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube with censorship law
CNN
7 min read · May 13th · Texas residents can now sue Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for allegedly censoring their content after a federal appeals court sided Wednesday with the state's law restricting how social media sites…
Reader View · Shared by 32, including Guy Kawasaki, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Melissa Fach 🇺🇦, Michael Seemann
TNW
Can a web3 Wikipedia evade Russian censorship? Techies are divided
TNW
3 min read · Apr 5th · Web3 devs are building a decentralized Wikipedia to evade censorship, but critics fear the approach will kill the site's purpose.
Reader View · Shared by 10, including Merkstatt, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
The Conversation
When are book bans unconstitutional? A First Amendment scholar explains
The Conversation
8 min read · Apr 13th · A free speech expert defines censorship and applies that lesson to current political struggles in the U.S. to ban books from public schools and libraries.
Reader View · Shared by 36, including Guy Kawasaki, PhilanTopic
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Bloomberg
YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals
Bloomberg
6 min read · From 2018 · Some creators say privacy concerns, censorship, and a coming ban on cryptocurrency ads are driving them away from the big names.
Shared by 174, including Merkstatt, Erik Hauth, Thomas Telandro, Damien Van Achter, Philip Junker, Thomas Pleil, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Rodrigo Prior, Luis Roig
BBC Breaking News
BBC News launches 'dark web' mirror
BBC Breaking News
2 min read · From 2019 · In a bid to thwart censorship attempts, the BBC News website is now available via Tor.
Reader View · Shared by 172, including Dean Anthony Gratton, Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, Amber Mac, Christina Sommers, Claudia Sommer, Mathew Ingram, Jamie Burke ⛺️, Rajesh Pancholi, Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්, Anita Graser 🇺🇦, Steve Faulkner, Amy Webb, Mat Ryer, Dorothy Bishop, Kevin Marks, Martin Stabe, 🐝 johnmu.xml (personal) 🐝, Thom Brooks
The Guardian
Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes
The Guardian
3 min read · 2021-10-16 · Tourist board in Austrian capital rails against censorship of art on social media platforms
Reader View · Shared by 141, including Clemens M. Schuster, Jonathan Kogan, Michael Schär, Adam Thomas, Ian M Calvert, Chris Heilmann
Miami Herald
Banning books isn’t the answer. Teach more-inclusive sex education — and teach it earlier
Miami Herald
Feb 5th · In the banned-book movement brewing in schools and libraries across the country, the focus of the censorship has been mostly on race.
Shared by 136, including Carrie Brown
briankrebs
The Democratization of Censorship — Krebs on Security
briankrebs
From 2016 · John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” This notion undoubtedly rings true for…
Reader View · Shared by 30, including Esther Schindler, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶
Glenn Greenwald
My Resignation From The Intercept
Glenn Greenwald
~14 min read · 2020-10-29 · The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
Reader View · Shared by 123, including Nick Lüthi, ErikWemple, Charles Hoskinson, Helmi, hakan, Jay Rosen, DHH, Matt Taibbi, Barnaby Skinner, Joshua Benton, Mike Maples, Jr, BenYT, John Nosta, Bryan Onel, Mathew Ingram
Guardian Tech
The internet, but not as we know it: life online in China, Russia, Cuba and India
Guardian Tech
5 min read · From 2019 · Interactive: More than half of the world’s population is now online, but that does not mean we are all seeing the same thing
Reader View · Shared by 172, including Mark Little, bouiboui, Lukas Stickelberger, Merkstatt, Niklaus Gerber, Mark Kaigwa, Damien Van Achter, Luca Like, Zain Fathoni, Adham Dannaway, Ines Bieler, luis antónio santos, Josh Holder, Dominik Grolimund, Liliane Ferrari ™, Yvette Dubel, Fabricio Teixeira, Mohamed Azazy, Brad Brooks, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
The New York Times
Opinion | I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead.
The New York Times
6 min read · Mar 7th · When we censor ourselves, our learning environments suffer.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 112, including Alex Tabarrok, Dr Jordan B Peterson, Joshua Benton, Todd Kashdan, Bill Johnston, Niall Ferguson, Jeffrey Flier, Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org ☮️, Olga Khazan, Jeff Jarvis, Christina Sommers, Felix M, Ben Dreyfuss, Ida Bae Wells, Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️, Mike Volpe, Jessica Valenti, Jonathan Haidt, Helen Lewis
EFF
China’s Global Reach: Surveillance and Censorship Beyond the Great Firewall
EFF
5 min read · From 2019 · Those outside the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are accustomed to thinking of the Internet censorship practices of the Chinese state as primarily domestic, enacted through the so-called "Great…
Reader View · Shared by 29, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Tac Anderson, John Koetsier, Charlie O'Keefe, Ste Davies, Chris Messina
