Tag: suppression

Joachim Hagopian, Israel Assault on Free Speech

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Joachim Hagopian 14,532 Palestinians have died in Gaza since the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7th. In less than 50 days more people are being killed at a faster clip in Gaza than any other war this century. The November 25th New York Times headline – “Gaza Civilians, Under Israeli Barrage, Are Being Killed at Historic Pace,” follows with the opening sentence: In less than two months, more than twice as many women and children have been reported killed in Gaza than in Ukraine after two years of war.  The NYT article goes on…

Caden Pearson, Elon Musk Unveils Twitter Censorship Machine in 2020

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By Caden Pearson 0:007:25 1    Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk and independent journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday unveiled what drove former Twitter executives to suppress the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Dubbed “The Twitter Files,” Taibbi published his reporting in a thread on his Twitter account, which he said was based on “thousands of internal documents obtained by sources” from the social media platform. The tweets contained communications amongst Twitter employees as they grappled with how to excuse their decision to censor the Hunter…

Mozilla says ‘deplatforming’ Trump isn’t enough, wants to shield internet from ‘bad actors’ as users uninstall Firefox in disgust

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©  REUTERS/Albert Gea Mozilla, developer of the Firefox internet browser, has argued that more must be done to keep Donald Trump and other “bad actors” out of cyberspace, prompting many to vow to never use the group’s services again. , In a blog post titled ‘We need more than deplatforming’, the open-source software community said that Twitter’s decision to permanently ban Trump from its platform didn’t go far enough in weeding out “hate” on the internet. While blaming Trump for the “siege and take-over” of the US Capitol on January 6, the non-profit tech group argued…