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Post by Admin on Mar 17, 2018 18:23:12 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2018 9:49:59 GMT
edri.org/eu-commissions-recommendation-lets-put-internet-giants-in-charge-of-censoring-europe/' EU Commission’s recommendation: Let’s put internet giants in charge of censoring Europe On 1 March 2018, the European Commission proposed a “Recommendation” on the surveillance and filtering of the internet by online companies. “The European Commission is pushing ‘voluntary’ censorship to internet giants to avoid legislation that would be subject to democratic scrutiny and judicial challenge”, said Joe McNamee, Executive Director of European Digital Rights (EDRi). “Today’s Recommendation institutionalises a role for Facebook and Google in regulating the free speech of Europeans. The Commission needs to be smart and to finally start developing policy based on reliable data and not public relations spin”, he added. European Digital Rights (EDRi) stresses that international and European human rights law must be respected. Under human rights law, restrictions to our rights to privacy or freedom of expression need to be provided for by law and be necessary and proportionate. The European Commission’s short-cut, where it puts the focus on “voluntary” measures by internet companies, bypasses democratic accountability. '
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2018 16:58:58 GMT
' YouTube Content ID could become an ACTUAL LAW '
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2018 21:36:15 GMT
a little 'something' about Mark Zuckerberg; www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-25/dumb-f-ks-julian-assange-reminds-us-what-mark-zuckerberg-thinks-facebook-users' Julian Assange fired off a tweet Friday afternoon reminding people of the time Mark Zuckerberg called his users "Dumb fucks" because they trusted him with their private information. Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask. Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks. ' |
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2018 16:08:13 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2018 14:14:59 GMT
www.rt.com/news/423229-russia-censorship-totalitarianism-facebook/| Russia blasts Facebook’s ‘totalitarianism & censorship’ after 270 accounts banned for no reason - Moscow has chided Facebook and demanded an explanation from the US State Department, after the social media giant banned media and personal accounts that violated no rules but are purportedly linked to a Russian “troll factory.” “It is clear that this is part of the anti-Russian campaign in which the media landscape is being cleansed of alternative sources of information, under the pretext of Russian interference in the 2016 election,” Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said during a press conference in Moscow. “It is odd that a company that celebrates openness is resorting to totalitarian methods of control and censorship on the basis of dubious criteria.” read more here; www.rt.com/news/423229-russia-censorship-totalitarianism-facebook/
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2018 14:36:57 GMT
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinians-israel-incitement-arrests-social-media-twitter-facebook-a8288631.html | Palestinians decry increase in arrests for 'incitement to violence' on social media | - Facebook has become the latest Israeli-Palestinian battleground as anti-terror arrests and detentions for online posts skyrocket Ahed Tamimi, the 17-year-old who became a symbol of Palestinian oppression after she was detained for slapping two Israeli soldiers at a demonstration in the West Bank, accepted a military court plea deal last week sentencing her to eight months in prison. Her mother, Nariman, was also sentenced to several months in jail on charges of incitement – because she live streamed the incident on Facebook. Both plea bargains were immediately decried by rights activists as an unfair outcome of an unfair system. The military court sentencing of Ahed, a minor, is illegal under international law. Nariman Tamimi’s punishment, however, reflects a growing trend in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, for which there is little legal precedent. The number of people arrested for “incitement to violence” through online activity or social media posts has skyrocketed in the last few years, sparking increasing worries over freedom of expression from Palestinian rights organisations. “It’s a growing problem,” Mousa Rimawi, director of the Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedoms (Mada), told The Independent. “Social media sites are … an efficient window to empower journalists and Palestinians in general to express their opinions freely,” he added. “Systematic surveillance and observation by the Israeli authorities [means they have become] an open platform for persecution and oppression relating to users’ opinions.” The state, worried that inflammatory content online has fuelled a spike in recent Israeli-Palestinian violence known as the “Jerusalem Intifada”, created a cybercrime unit in October 2015 to monitor and censor what is published on the internet. ' read more here; www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinians-israel-incitement-arrests-social-media-twitter-facebook-a8288631.html
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