For Journalists in Kenya, “2020 is the worst year on record”
By Victoria Rubadiri Since the novel coronavirus outbreak in Kenya in March, more than 47 cases of arbitrary arrest, assault and harassment have been perpetrated…
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Human Rights Watchdog Says Governments Using Pandemic To Crack Down On Online Dissent
By Aaron Kesel Governments around the world are using the ongoing pandemic to crack down on online dissent according to a human rights watchdog. Washington-based…
“A Truly Orwellian Culture” — Amazon Removes COVID Skeptic’s Book For Violating Content Guidelines
By Tyler Durden Around the time Twitter purged New York Post’s bombshell stories about Hunter Biden from its platform, late last week, Amazon was busy…
Big Tech Tried to Censor the NY Post’s Hunter Biden Story — They Made it Huge Instead
By Brad Polumbo Elections are messy. As the day of any election gets closer, more stories are leaked as opponents and muck-raking journalists try to…
The New Media Has Become like the Old Media—And That Means the Usual Bias
By Ryan McMaken A sizable majority of American adults say—when polled—that social media organizations “censor” political viewpoints: A Pew Research Center survey conducted in June finds…
Battlefield Social Media: The West’s Growing Censorship
Op-Ed by Gunnar Ulson The United States, United Kingdom and the European Union are fond of passing judgement on nations around the globe regarding “free…
Urgent: EARN IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives
By Joe Mullin The dangerous EARN IT Act passed the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, and now it’s been introduced in the House of Representatives….
The Online Content Policy Modernization Act Is an Unconstitutional Mess
By Elliot Harmon EFF is standing with a huge coalition of organizations to urge Congress to oppose the Online Content Policy Modernization Act (OCPMA, S….
#YouTubeRegrets — Propaganda Watch
By The Corbett Report Are you concerned that watching YouTube-recommended CNN propaganda has turned you into a raging imperial warmonger? Or that that MSNBC video…
Google Tries to Burn LBRY … But LBRY Fights Back
By The Corbett Report Jeremy Kauffman joins us to discuss LBRY, an open-source, decentralized protocol that is helping creators share video content peer-to-peer through the…
Journalists Face Sedition Charges Under Cybercrime Law in Pakistan
By Qurratulain (Annie) Zaman Three Pakistani journalists were charged with sedition between September 11 and 16 under Pakistan’s 2016 Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), a law that…
Criminalizing Free Speech: The Sedition Act Trials
By Michael Boldin Attacks on the Freedom of Speech are nothing new. Benjamin Franklin warned about them as far back as 1722. And the Sedition…
Why Freedom of Association Is So Important
By Zachary Yost If one were to come up with a word cloud for the year 2020, among the largest words, such as “awful” and…
Three More Arrested In Australia For Making Anti-Lockdown Posts Online
By John Vibes Earlier this week we reported that a pregnant woman from Melbourne, Australia, was arrested in her home for creating a social media…