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dailycaller.com

Canada Orders Comedian To Pay Singer $35,000 For Offensive Joke 'Quebec's Human Rights Tribunal ordered a comedian to pay $35,000 to a teen singer he made fun of as part of his stand-up routine, ruling Wednesday that the teen's "right to equality" was violated by the jokes.

‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram Social media is waging a sexually charged war on fruits and veggies. In July, Facebook and Instagram quietly updated the Facebook Community Standards language regarding permissible sexual expr…

danielpocock.com

Where do all the censored developers go?Being censored by an organization that claims to be promoting Free as in Speech is no small feat. It raises an interesting question: where do conscientious ...

reclaimthenet.org

Google bans family cafe for "offensive content” for posting photo of British dish, faggots and peas “I don't really associate the word 'faggots' with anything offensive, and yet someone has made a decision that's affecting my livelihood."

TOSsed Out We've been tracking the impact of social media content takedowns and account deactivations for many years. TOSsed Out highlights the various ways in which Terms of Service (TOS) and other speech moderation rules are unevenly enforced, with little to no transparency, against a wide spectrum of...

theatlantic.com

Don’t Use These Free-Speech Arguments Ever Again Most speech, hateful or not, is protected by the Constitution. To pretend otherwise is foolhardy.

Hong Kong Protestors Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block: Usage Up 3685%Mesh networking: how you communicate when China censors the internet.

Calling Prophet Muhammad a pedophile is not protected by free speech, court rules The European Court of Human Rights upheld an Austrian ruling against a woman who was convicted of disparaging Islam.

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fightthefuture.org

Twitter is Trying to Erase the Past I recently got an e-mail saying I had violated Twitter’s rules for hateful conduct. I immediately thought my account password had been compromised, o...

8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service "We made the decision to totally ban them."

new.blog.cloudflare.com

Terminating Service for 8Chan The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio are horrific tragedies. In the case of the El Paso shooting, the suspected terrorist gunman appears to have been inspired by the forum website known as 8chan.

theguardian.com

Knitting website's war on Trump forces crafting community to confront racism The knitting community may be seen as apolitical, but a conversation has been building over race, hate speech and the president

Facebook Just Announced It's Banning 7 of Its Most 'Dangerous' Accounts. Here's the Full List and Why They Did It The official count is six human beings who are also brands, along with a media company run by one of them.

newsroom.fb.com

Standing Against Hate | Facebook Newsroom Today we're announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram.

Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt Patreon, a crowdfunding site for content creators, is facing a rebellion after its human moderators booted a creator who had violated its hate speech policy.

Rap lyric Insta post 'a hate crime'Chelsea Russell said she used the Snap Dogg lyric as a tribute to a boy who died in a crash.

FYI, saying ‘men aren’t women’ now qualifies as ‘hateful conduct’ on Twitter Twitter’s crusade against “hate speech” has vanquished yet another meany face. A prominent Canadian feminist says that the company flagged a tweet she wrote which meekly suggested that men aren’t women. Isn’t Twitter fun?

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Rep. Jim Jordan: Congress should examine free speech restrictions by social media companies and others Congress should appoint a task force to examine how social media companies are restricting conservative speech .