politics Something Awful's "Fuck You and Die" forum went from freewheeling jokesters to Nazi shitposters, so it's dead Cory Doctorow

twitter An important, elegant thought experiment on content moderation regulation Cory Doctorow

1a The platforms suck at content moderation and demanding they do more won't make them better at it — but there ARE concrete ways to improve moderation Cory Doctorow

censorship The platforms control our public discourse, and who they disconnect is arbitrary and capricious Cory Doctorow

Internet Parler, the "free speech" alternative to Twitter, breaks out the ban-hammer Rob Beschizza

Business Facebook ad boycott includes Ben & Jerry's, REI, Patagonia, North Face, Eddie Bauer Xeni Jardin

Business Reddit to honor Ohanian's request to appoint Black director, and address anti-Black hate Xeni Jardin

censorship Read the text of Trump's draft Executive Order about Social Media Thom Dunn

censorship French companies will have one hour to remove content at police demand Rob Beschizza

facebook Facebook must pay $52M for 11,250 content moderators' mental health issues caused on the job Xeni Jardin

News Leaked Twitter demo shows red banners to indicate lies and disinformation under tweets Xeni Jardin

youtube YouTube moderators must sign agreement acknowledging they might get PTSD Rob Beschizza

youtube Youtube's Content ID has become the tool of choice for grifty copyfraudsters who steal from artists Cory Doctorow

naughty words Conservatives angry at Burger King over ad where someone says "Damn that's good" Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Americans should definitely be worried about the EU's new copyright rules Cory Doctorow

youtube The Youtubers' union just wants Google to give them the rulebook Cory Doctorow

censorship Tiktok's internal policies are both weird and terrible Cory Doctorow

art That time my husband reported me to the Facebook police: a case study Daphne Keller

News Right-wing troll complains about how hard he has it Jason Weisberger

After pressure, PayPal takes down Ku Klux Klan donation account Rob Beschizza