The Moral Panic Behind Internet Regulation
This will make the internet a much less free place to speak compared to Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park—the place which is supposed to represent Britain’s commitment to free speech.
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This will make the internet a much less free place to speak compared to Speakers’ Corner at Hyde Park—the place which is supposed to represent Britain’s commitment to free speech.
Twitter is violating its own stated rules, and it is doing so as a means to target specific individuals for ideological reasons.
People on social media hurried to declare that they would never again spend a penny at Ristretto and were rewarded with approval from like-minded peers.
Harassment and the advocacy of violence are serious issues, and there is nothing morally objectionable about social media companies.
The Legacy social networks have betrayed the trust of their users to such extent that their brands are essentially unsalvageable.
This sort of freedom leads to a freer and safer world. At Gab, we will never compromise on our commitment to protect freedom of speech for everyone.
The evolution of our content policy not only risked the core of Facebook’s mission, but jeopardized my own alignment with the company.
These data are consistent with Amnesty’s findings, where nearly 9 percent of Twitter mentions toward black women were problematic.
A small group of journalists have falsely smeared the world's top YouTuber as a Nazi sympathizer.
In this age of omnipresent social media, our greatest challenge may be figuring out how to take advantage of the benefits of the technology that can connect us to each other without suffering serious social costs.
The deliberate downplaying of dissent for both Persian and English language audiences is indicative of an attempt to fool Iranians back into submission at a time when the regime has never been more anxious about its survival.
We must be the protectors of our own free speech, and habitually speak out not just against the tech giants, but also against populist gurus.
We would not tolerate a phone company cutting off somebody’s service because of the words they used in their conversations.
The very writers, publishers, poets, musicians, comedians, media producers and artists who once worried about being muzzled by the government are now self-organizing on social media (Twitter, especially) to censor each other.