Twitter seemingly removed a journalist's tweet about India's Home Minister globally, not just in the country, an apparent first, in response to a “legal demand”
The Hindu : Tweets: @officialsauravd , @martinsfp , and @akhmxt . Thanks: @aroondeep See also Mediagazer Tweets: @officialsauravd : “My tweets have been withheld not just in India, but worldwide. I d...
Sources: the UK Home Office is seeking changes to the Online Safety Bill to require platforms monitor “legal but harmful” content, worrying the tech industry
Radical powers in online bill would increase liability of global internet groups beyond current global regulation Tweets: @tim , @matthewlesh , @martinsfp , @jimkillock , @webdevlaw , @sjhmorris , @ut...
The French startup scene also suffers from a lack of diversity, but it cannot be measured because it is mostly illegal in France to track people's ethnicity
- Bloomberg polled top venture capital firms on diversity policy — 'Absence of ethnic diversity doesn't seem to bother investors' Tweets: @martinsfp , @technology , @hkanji , and @business Tweets: ...
China proposes an internet architecture called New IP to UN's ITU; critics say its top-down design would give governments granular control over the internet
New architecture would enable cutting-edge technologies but western countries fear more control for state-run internet services Tweets: @martinsfp , @bakerluke , @amir , @jgriffiths , @madhumita29 , @...
Sources: US officials warn the UK that a free trade deal would not happen if digital services tax on companies like Google and Amazon becomes UK law this fall
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph : Tweets: @benrileysmith , @martinsfp , @feorlean , @pmdfoster , and @telegraph Tweets: Ben Riley-Smith / @benrileysmith : *Exclusive* US has told Britain it will not get ...