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YouTube will remove more white supremacist and hoax videos, a more aggressive stance on hate speech
YouTube said it will remove false videos alleging that major events like the Holocaust didn’t happen, as well as a broad array of content by white supremacists and others in a move to more aggressively crack down on hate speech.
Analysis: FEC poised to limit who can give political campaigns free cybersecurity help (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:06Congress knows the Internet is broken. It’s time to start fixing it.
The "Internet is broken." That, according to Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), is the sentiment animating a bipartisan antitrust review of technology titans in the House of Representatives. He is right to initiate the effort.
A right-wing YouTuber hurled racist, homophobic taunts at a gay reporter. The company did nothing. (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 06/05/2019 - 06:20Op-Ed: President Trump keeps threatening the freedom of speech (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 06/04/2019 - 15:43Analysis: President Trump’s ban on US companies supplying Huawei will not make the country safer, experts say (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 06/04/2019 - 11:41Analysis: Apple may not be able to escape political peril in Washington anymore (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 06/04/2019 - 11:40Facebook, Google and other tech giants to face antitrust investigation by House lawmakers
Democratic Reps plan a sweeping review of Facebook, Google and other technology giants to determine if they’ve become so large and powerful that they stifle competition and harm consumers, marking a new, unprecedented antitrust threat for an indus