2023-01-26
India has banned a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role in the 2002 riots in Gujarat state. The documentary highlighted a report that found Modi “directly responsible” for the “climate of impunity” enabling the violence. https://twitter.com/...
The Daily Beast
After an uproar, Twitter suspends US white nationalist Nick Fuentes' verified account, one day after lifting the Holocaust denier's ban that began in July 2021
both of whom were central to the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the January 6th attack on the Capitol—have been suspended again. https://twitter.com/... @bonchieredst...
India has banned a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role in the 2002 riots in Gujarat state. The documentary highlighted a report that found Modi “directly responsible” for the “climate of impunity” enabling the violence. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi
2022-05-27
Today, @hrw is releasing a report that finds an overwhelming majority of online learning products endorsed by 49 of the world's most populous countries during Covid-19 school closure were risky for children to use. https://www.hrw.org/...
Washington Post
Human Rights Watch finds 89% of 164 remote learning apps and sites used during the pandemic in 49 countries shared student data with marketers and data brokers
Many of these products monitored children, & harvested personal data — for example, who & where they are, or what they do in class, or who their family & friends are, or what kind of device their families could afford for them to use. #StudentsNotProducts https://www.hrw.org/...
Washington Post
Human Rights Watch finds 89% of 164 remote learning apps and sites used during the pandemic in 49 countries shared student data with marketers and data brokers
“Children,” lead researcher Hye Jung Han wrote, were “just as likely to be surveilled in their virtual classrooms as adults shopping in the world's largest virtual malls.” - #NowReading @techchildrights for @hrw https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Human Rights Watch finds 89% of 164 remote learning apps and sites used during the pandemic in 49 countries shared student data with marketers and data brokers
2020-07-29
If passed, this new law will enable Turkey's government to control social media, to get content removed at will, and to arbitrarily target individual users. It signals a new dark era of online censorship. https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Turkey passes law extending sweeping powers over social media platforms, ordering those with 1M+ DAU to open offices in the country and store user data locally
The legislation extends control over social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.