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. · Shared by 211, including Merkstatt, Yvette d’Entremont, Matt Navarra, Mathew Ingram, Florian Hanke 🍎, zeynep tufekci, Hannes Grassegger, Jane, Dominic Grzbielok, Charlie O'Keefe, Leslie D, Cory Doctorow, Kim Dik
VICE
Revealed: Documents Show How Roblox Planned to Bend to Chinese Censorship
VICE
7 min read · Jul 25th · Filtering games. Blocking maps with Taiwan. Handling "historical facts." Roblox was prepared to go all in on Chinese censorship, according to newly released internal documents. · Shared by 87, including Howard Getson, Neeraj K. Agrawal
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. · Shared by 340, including Azeem Azhar, Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, BenYT, Evan Selinger, Paul Graham, hakan, Christopher Mims 🤌, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Matthew Green, Joshua Benton, Casey Newton, Cory Doctorow, Tim Sweeney, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Chaotic Goode, Aral Balkan, patrick h. lauke (redux) "Big Dog" #toryScum, Kara Swisher, Kevin Roose, 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 67, 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. · Shared by 252, including Martin Steiger, Merkstatt, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nicolas Granatino 🌻, Nico Luchsinger, Gerd Leonhard, zeynep tufekci, Mathew Ingram, Matthias Lampe, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy, Cory Doctorow, 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. · Shared by 226, including Chris Isak , Kevin Kelly, Neeraj K. Agrawal, Bjorn Larsen, Ajit Pai, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Elena Neira, Katja Evertz, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Matt Navarra, Tomio Geron, hakan, hardmaru, Dirk von Gehlen, Kyle Chayka
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 212, 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 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. · Shared by 212, including Niklaus Gerber, Dominik Grolimund, Jane, Merkstatt, Jeremiah Owyang | jowyang.eth, jowyang.sol, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Michael Sullivan, John Battelle, Bjorn Larsen, Jason Fried, Kim Dik, Gideonro, DHH, Michael Duergner, Florian Hanke 🍎, Gerd Leonhard, Azeem Azhar, Carl Morris
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The Pudding
The Big [Censored] Theory
The Pudding
9 min read · Aug 29th · A case study on how the government censors TV in China. · Shared by 254, including Jason Hirschhorn, Tactical Tech, Mathew Ingram, Ernie Smith, russell, Jeff Jarvis
BBC News (World)
The 'dangerous' books too powerful to read
BBC News (World)
10 min read · Sep 22nd · Forty years on from the launch of Banned Books Week, censorship is once again on the rise. John Self considers the long and ignoble global history of book-banning. · Shared by 25
The Intercept
Facebook Report Concludes Company Censorship Violated Palestinian Human Rights
The Intercept
5 min read · Sep 21st · The report, due out tomorrow, said Facebook and Instagram showed bias against Palestinians during a brutal Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip last May. · Shared by 25, including Massimo Banzi, Neel V. Patel
Guardian Books
How to beat a book ban: students, parents and librarians fight back
Guardian Books
9 min read · Sep 21st · As rightwing campaigns for censorship sweep the US, opponents are finding ways to keep books on the shelves · Shared by 26, including Tactical Tech, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dorothy Bishop
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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. · Shared by 172, including Dean Anthony Gratton, Dorothy Bishop, Amber Mac, Christina Sommers, Claudia Sommer, Mathew Ingram, Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, Rajesh Pancholi, Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්, Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Steve Faulkner, Amy Webb 🤖, Mat Ryer, Jamie Burke ⛺️, Kevin Marks, Martin Stabe, 🌽〈link href=//johnmu.com rel=canonical 〉🌽, Thom Brooks
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 🏠) 🌙
The Pudding
The Big [Censored] Theory
The Pudding
9 min read · Aug 29th · A case study on how the government censors TV in China. · Shared by 254, including Jason Hirschhorn, Tactical Tech, Mathew Ingram, Ernie Smith, russell, Jeff Jarvis
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 · 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
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. · Shared by 122, 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
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… · Shared by 30, including Esther Schindler, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶
NBC News
Book banning in Texas schools: Titles are pulled off library shelves in record numbers
NBC News
~16 min read · Feb 1st · Facing pressure from parents and threats of criminal charges, some districts have ignored policies meant to prevent censorship. Librarians and students are pushing back. · Shared by 121, including Jeff Jarvis, Judd Legum, Constantin Gurdgiev, Chris O'Brien, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Lyz Lenz, Adrian Roselli 🗯, Larry Ferlazzo, Ida Bae Wells
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