A list of platforms that banned or limited Trump-affiliated accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Apple, Snapchat, TikTok, Shopify, Pinterest, and more
The first inkling I had that something was very wrong … Cameron Peters / Vox : Every online platform that has cracked down on Trump Will Chamberlain / New York Post : Rein in abusive Big Tech republic...
Pornhub says it has removed all videos from unverified accounts from its platform; the number of hosted videos dropped from 13.5M to 7.2M
More Than 10 Million Videos — From Its Site Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Pornhub suspends over 10 million videos to eradicate illegal content Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1451: the trouble...
With top 100 brands contributing only an estimated 6% of Facebook's revenue and Zuckerberg's voting control over the company, ad boycott's impact may be limited
Facebook held a cross-team meeting *within 24 hours* of just the boycott's announcement to discuss how to handle it. https://twitter.com/... Bob Pickard / @bobpickard : This ‘PR ploy’ conjecture about...
In a letter to members of Congress, IBM says it's exiting the general-purpose facial recognition business and opposes the use of such tech for mass surveillance
and +1 on this (tho already a bit late): “We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agenci...
Amazon's Ring says 400+ law enforcement agencies across the US use its Neighbors Portal, which lets them ask owners for the footage from their Ring cameras
right at our front doors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : New: The doorbell-camera company Ring has forged partnerships with more than 400 police agencies across the ...
Investigation finds 4,152 items on Amazon that were declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled, or are banned by regulators
but which really wasn't. “Amazon in court argued it didn't sell the helmet but merely listed it on the seller's behalf.” https://www.wsj.com/... Joanna Stern / @joannastern : Things @WSJ found on Amaz...
Apple debuts Sign In with Apple service, which masks info like email addresses, for iOS and non-iOS apps and web; mandatory for iOS apps using 3rd-party logins
the project I loved and led at Mozilla 6-8 years ago, the project that broke my heart. This is my take, I'm sure it's incomplete. @fastcompany : Apple has been jousting with Facebook and Google over p...