YouTube strengthens its “enforcement on third-party apps” violating its ToS, “specifically ad-blocking apps”, leading to error messages and “buffering issues”
this time blocking third-party apps Vallari Sanzgiri / MediaNama : Buffering Ahead: YouTube to Limit Video Access via Ad-Blocking Apps Codrut Nistor / Notebookcheck : Google renews its assault on YouT...
Tech executives and officials detail how the Indian government used new rules, censorship, and law enforcement to break Twitter's resistance to takedown orders
Washington Post : X: @seemay . Forums: r/Twitter X: Seema Chishti / @seemay : How India tamed Twitter, set a global standard for online censorship This “escalating censorship is part of a wider campa...
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...
Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi
Sources: Facebook fears cracking down on Hindu extremist groups in India because of the likelihood that it could lead to violence toward its staff
Sources: Facebook fears cracking down on Hindu extremist groups in India because of the likelihood that it could lead to violence toward its staff
Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Facebook considers physical retaliation from Hindu extremist groups as a danger in India, which it ranks as a “Tier One” country for societal violence
Social media giant's security team cites possible attacks if extremist Hindu groups are kicked off platform
A third of India's 4M IT workers at firms like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro still go to the office daily to serve clients abroad amid lockdown
Looking at Big Tech as the next Big Oil. — The world's abrupt slowing down in the past few weeks may have introduced millions … Tweets: @aakar__patel and @passivefool Tweets: Aakar Patel / @aakar__p...