Parler withdraws its lawsuit against Amazon for kicking it off AWS

Posted on 03/03/2021 by Engadget

Parler's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon has come to an abrupt end. The Verge reports that Parler withdrew the suit late yesterday (March 2nd). The social site didn't provide an explanation for the withdrawal, but said it had the right to su...

Twitter says it won’t block activists, journalists and politicians in India

Posted on 10/02/2021 by Engadget

Twitter has said in a blog post that it won’t block the accounts of politicians, journalists and activists in India, despite being ordered to do so by the Modi government. “We have not taken any action on accounts that consist of news media entities,...

India’s government threatens to jail Twitter employees unless they block critics

Posted on 04/02/2021 by Engadget

India’s government has warned Twitter that it must obey its orders to remove “inflammatory content” or employees will face potential jail time, Buzzfeed has reported. The government, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, made the edict after Twitter un...

DoJ asks Congress to limit protections for social media companies

Posted on 23/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The Department of Justice (DoJ) is asking Congress to adopt a new law that would make Facebook, Google and Twitter liable for the way they moderate content, The Washington Post reports. The legislation would alter the controversial Section 230 so tha...

Google pulls ‘fediverse’ Android apps for allegedly enabling hate speech

Posted on 29/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google has stepped up its fight against hate speech, but there are concerns that it might be too aggressive. As Private Internet Access reports, Google has pulled or threatened to pull multiple “fediverse” apps (groups of interconnected servers used...

Reddit has banned nearly 7,000 hateful subreddits since June 29th

Posted on 20/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Reddit says it’s ramping up its fight against hate speech. Since rolling out its new content policies on June 29th, the platform has banned nearly 7,000 subreddits for hateful content. While the company admits it has more work to do, it says it’s enc...

For a ‘free speech social network,’ Parler isn’t that free

Posted on 02/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter conservatives, long frustrated by the site’s supposed “anti-conservative bias” have a new platform of choice: Parler. The app, which bills itself as the “free speech social network,” has become a kind of social media haven for the right in re...

EARN IT Act amendments transfer the fight over Section 230 to the states

Posted on 02/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an amended version of the EARN IT Act. The controversial legislation will now head to the full Senate floor for debate. While the amendments include substantial changes, groups like the ACLU and Free Press...

Senators push FCC to take action on Trump’s social media order

Posted on 10/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Some Republicans are eager to see the FCC follow through on President Trump’s executive order theoretically limiting protections for social networks. Senators Marco Rubio, Kelly Loeffler, Kevin Cramer and Josh Hawley have sent a letter to FCC chairma...

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