shadow banning Lauren Boebert goes ballistic, shouting at former Twitter employees: "Who the hell do you think you are!?" (video) Carla Sinclair

web theory China's We Chat "shadow-bans" messages with forbidden keywords, but only for China-based accounts Cory Doctorow

twitter Twitter now allows "non-toxic slurs" as long as the slurs are not hate speech Thom Dunn

politics Attacks on free speech rising in U.S. Rob Beschizza

twitter Musk shadow bans the Twitter account tracking his jet Jason Weisberger

fbi Capitol rioters lured and reported to FBI by women on dating app Bumble Kevin Reome

TikTok admits secretly banning the word "gay" and similar terms in Russia, elsewhere Rob Beschizza

censorship Tiktok has become a vital tool for monitoring abuses against Xinjiang Uyghurs, but that's threatened by the company's new censorship rules Cory Doctorow

Business Facebook has filed a laughable patent-application for the well-known practice of "shadow banning" Cory Doctorow

human rights Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow

china Chinese urbanization has left 25 million vacant homes in rural villages Cory Doctorow

Free Speech for White Supremacists Trump is the Lorax who speaks for the Nazis Jason Weisberger

trump Is Stormy Daniels being shadowbanned on Twitter? Gareth Branwyn

Copyfight Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing Cory Doctorow