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UK Drops Plans For Ban of “Legal but Harmful” Content in Online Safety Bill
The UK’s proposed Online Safety Bill, while clearly well-intentioned, honestly feels like it’s probably doomed to be a somewhat embarrassing failure. I mean, most would say that can’t police the internet, but boy is the UK government willing to take a crack at it! While the entire proposal itself is…
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Microsoft, Apple, And Google Dominate World’s Most Hated Tech Firms!
It’s very easy to get angry at big-tech companies. Mostly because their total market dominance has largely wiped out much of their competition that once required them to at least be a little innovative in winning our business over. Following a report via RaveReviews, however, statistics taken from all around…
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Microsoft Investigates Racist Bing Search Engine Results
Microsoft Investigates Racist Bing Search Engine Results Ok. So I think it’s pretty fair to say that not many people use Bing. Despite Microsoft pushing us (rather hard) to use both it’s Edge Browser and Bing search engine, neither has found particular traction amongst the community. This is very likely…
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Sims Community Manager Asks Fans To Stop Attacking The Staff
Sims Community Manager Asks Fans To Stop Attacking The Staff The Sims 4 has had a bit of a bumpy road since it launched. To me, it epitomised everything that was going wrong with EA. When the game initially launched, it had neither pools nor babies. In the game series,…
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Nearly Half Of UK Internet Users Claim To Have Suffered ‘Harm’
Nearly Half Of UK Internet Users Claim To Have Suffered ‘Harm’ The internet can be a fun place. Full of laughter, comedy, pathos and, of course, information. It can, however, also be a nice place for people to throw their virtual vitriol behind the safety of their keyboard. Just how…
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EU Tells Internet Giants To Remove Bad Content Inside An Hour
EU Tells Internet Giants To Remove Bad Content Inside An Hour A major factor that social media and internet companies have had to deal with in recent years is hateful or illegal content people posted on their sites. It has gotten to the point that many companies have to specifically…
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Gab Ordered By Microsoft To Remove Anti-Semitic Content
Gab Ordered By Microsoft To Remove Anti-Semitic Content You may not have heard of Gab, but in terms of brand new social media platforms, it’s doing quite well. The website was initially launched just under 2 years ago. It operated under the simple premise that everything was permissible. You know, like how…
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Facebook Issue Infowars Alex Jones With 30 Day Ban
Facebook Issue Infowars Alex Jones With 30 Day Ban You may or may not have heard of Alex Jones or Infowars. Perhaps you should consider yourself lucky if you haven’t. To put it simply Alex Jones is a right-wing commentator who occasionally comes out with some pretty wild theories about…
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Facebook Will Not Ban Hate Or Conspiracy Theorist Pages
Facebook Will Not Ban Hate or Conspiracy Theorist Pages Facebook has been fighting off bad news stories left, right and centre for the last 6 months. The social media site has regularly found it subject to criticism be it for the content it hosts or for the way it has…
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Facebook Flags Declaration Of Independence As Hate Speech
Facebook Algorithm Finds the American Declaration Of Independence As Hate Speech With Independence day landing in America a couple days ago, the nation was celebrating the day that Britain decided to allow them to self-govern. As a British person, I can’t honestly say I like the job they’ve done so…
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Facebook Shuts Down Over Half A Billion Fake Accounts
Facebook Shuts Down Over Half A Billion Fake Accounts Facebook has certainly been the focus of some intense scrutiny over the last year. That in no small part due to the way it handles our data and also the content which has been posted on the social media site. With…
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Social Media Is “Too Slow” Dealing With Scams
Social Media Social Media has had a rough ride over the last couple years. Whether it’s election tampering, spreading hate speech or distributing fake news, they have rarely been in the news for a good reason. The European Commission, however, has just dumped a fresh load of criticism on social…
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Twitter Introduces New Rules With Fears of Mass Account ‘Purges’ To Come
Twitter Account Purges In November, Twitter announced its new rules to deal with the problem of abuse, hate speech and general behavior on their social media platform. As of Monday the 18th of December, these rules have now officially come into effect. These changes, however, have led many to believe…
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Twitter Removing ‘Verified’ Ticks as Part of Hate Crackdown
Twitter starts removing ‘Verified’ ticks as new guidelines come into effect Social media, in general, has been under a lot of scrutinies recently. Specifically, in the role, it plays in the speading of news. As part of new guidelines set out by Twitter, the social media site is setting out…
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Social Medias Failure to Deal with Illegal Content is “Shameful”
A UK government committee has ruled that the social media giants are “shamefully far” from addressing illegal, dangerous and hateful content. Evidence was found on Facebook, Twitter and Google of such a nature that the committee has said that it found: “repeated examples of social media companies failing to remove illegal content…
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