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Month: November 2020

Censorship study finds censorship growing rapidly, worldwide, even in “free” countries

Censorship study finds censorship growing rapidly, worldwide, even in “free” countries

The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of the world’s freest countries are not safe from internet censorship. Source: ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies | University of Michigan News

Senate Democrats ask YouTube CEO to remove election misinformation

Senate Democrats ask YouTube CEO to remove election misinformation

This is basically government imposed censorship via proxy: Senate Democrats wrote a letter to YouTube’s CEO, citing concern about rampant election misinformation on the platform. Source: Senate Democrats ask YouTube CEO to remove election misinformation As noted in recent posts Google and Twitter have both recently taken steps to censor views by scientists that go against the current narrative. Eminent scientists have, in those cases, asked questions about current pandemic policies – that question the underlying assumptions behind them. When…

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