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'Cute winter boots': A resistance movement disguised as a TikTok trend explainedTikTok users are cleverly using the trend “cute winter boots” to resist against U.S. government policies and censorship. The phrase is a eu...
Trump signs executive order that he says will protect free speechPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at restoring free speech by ending federal censorship. Trump and Republicans claim t...
TikTok and government clash in last round of Supreme Court briefsTheir briefs were part of a high-stakes showdown over the government's insistence that ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, sell the app's o...
FCC Commissioner Carr writes to Big Tech, accuses them of forming “censorship cartel”In a letter on November 13 addressed to Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, and Tim Cook, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said tha...
Joe Rogan has a warning for America: If Kamala Harris win US presidency in 2024, it could threaten this...Joe Rogan has warned that the First Amendment could be at risk if Kamala Harris becomes president. He discussed social media censorship and...
US Supreme Court sidesteps dispute on state laws regulating social mediaLegal battles over social media control escalate as court decisions differ. The role of content moderation and free speech rights takes cen...
Congress veteran P Chidambaram calls BJP a cult worshipping Narendra ModiChidambaram also expressed hope that the INDIA bloc will win all the 39 seats in Tamil Nadu and the one seat in Pondicherry where the elect...
What the university presidents got right and wrong about antisemitic speechIf Harvard, MIT and Penn had chosen to model their policies after the First Amendment, many of the presidents' controversial answers would ...
US Supreme Court to weigh state laws constraining social media companiesThe justices took up two cases involving challenges by technology industry groups who argued that these 2021 laws restricting the content-m...
Backlash in China against draft law banning items that harm 'national spirit'The changes were first made public last week as part of a mandatory "soliciting opinion" process, as concerns mount about the increasingly ...
Can social media companies boot Trump? YesAs the Congressional Research Service has explained in a report for federal lawmakers and their staffs, lawsuits predicated on a website's ...
The story few now remember: When free speech was muzzled the first time in independent IndiaShyama Prasad Mookerji’s prophetic warning to Nehru, delivered during the parliamentary debate remains relevant as ever: “Maybe you will co...
Emergency no longer possible: Arun JaitleyArun Jaitley said Emergency is no longer possible in the country as media censorship is not possible in the digital era and amendment to th...
Malaysia amends sedition act amid criticismThe revised act makes it illegal to promote sedition on the internet, which may give rise to web censorship.
Narendra Modi government likely to frame norms for media coverage on anti-terror operationsThe Home Ministry had earlier asked the I and B Ministry to amend rules so that live coverage of anti-terror operations by television chann...
- Google wants govt to take on China in WTO
The Obama administration is weighing the merits of taking China’s censorship of Google to the World Trade Organisation as an unfair barrier...
- US asked to drag China to WTO over Google dispute
Some groups are calling on the United States to challenge China's "firewall" before the World Trade Organization, as a bilateral row over c...