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Apple removes New York Times app in China
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 5.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, social media, threat
Summary | Apple removed its New York Times app from its store in China. China's internet censorship is one of the toughest in the world; the government blocks all the websites seen as a threat. In China, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Instagram are all banned. The New York Times app had been violating the country's regulations, that is why it had to be taken down.
Image Description | Photograph of a tablet screen displaying the New York Times
Image Tags | tablet
The Week in Tech: Facebook Live, a More Civil Reddit and Yahoo’s Odd Deal-Making
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 9.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, marketing, politeness, Twitter
Summary | Reddit has for the first time in its existence enabled users to block other users from commenting. This enables censorship of less desirable opinions. Twitter landed the exclusive deal to live stream a football game on their platform, a deal Facebook was initially after since they are better known for their LiveStream service than Twitter. This is a high-profile marketing campaign for Twitter. Also, Yahoo is trying to sell itself.
Image Description | An image of a smartphone showing a livestreamed interview.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
Two Saudi women are sentenced to 20 lashes for using bad language while arguing with each other over WhatsApp
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 24.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, game, gender, WhatsApp
Summary | Two Saudi women were sentenced to 10 days in prison and 20 lashes because they used bad language on WhatsApp. Saudi Arabia has been condemned numerous times for violating human and women's rights, and restricting freedom of expression. For instance, the game Pokemon Go was banned because it is similar to gambling.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone with the WhatsApp logo on the screen, and photograph of the city of Jeddah.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone, WhatsApp
Chinese social media sites lit up with grief for dissident Liu Xiaobo, but not for long
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 15.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, politics, social media
Summary | Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate, just died. Many Chinese people expressed their sympathy and grief online, but the government tried to censor those comments. Most Chinese citizens don't know the dissident's name. On Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, the government deleted pictures of Liu and his wife.
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Obama Shifting Online Strategy on ISIS
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, law, politics, privacy, threat
Summary | President Obama wants to use surveillance techniques of new media to find IS terrorists. Tech companies, however, increasingly offer their users encrypted messaging services and refuse to hand over the keys to the government. Companies are protecting their users' privacy but also giving terrorists safe channels of communication.
Image Description | Portrait of Apple’s chief executive.
Image Tags | male(s)
China Disrupts WhatsApp Service in Online Clampdown
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, Google, Instagram, privacy, threat, Twitter, WhatsApp
Summary | The Chinese government has partly shut down the use of WhatsApp within their borders. The app is widely used around the globe and was used by some in China do communicate with people outside of Chine with end-to-end encryption. Other popular social media platforms and internet sites like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are blocked under the "Great Firewall" in China.
Image Description | Woman using a smartphone and women standing in front of Facebook and Instagram logos as well as emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, female(s), Instagram, logo, smartphone
Cinnabon causes a stir with Carrie Fisher tweet
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 29.12.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Twitter
Summary | Big companies sometimes make gaffes when they use their social media accounts. For instance, after the death of actress Carrie FIsher, Cinnabon posted a picture of Princess Leia (Fisher's most famous role) with a cinnamon role representing her buns in her hair. Cinnabon had to delete its tweet and apologize after users thought the post was "tasteless". Other people thought that Fisher would have liked the post and laughed at it.
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Apple's Emoji Gun Control
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 16.8.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, emojis
Summary | Apple decided to replace the gun emoji with a water pistol emoji, but didn't say why they made that decision. Maybe Apple was influenced by the #DisarmTheiPhone campaign. However, there is a problem: if an Apple user sends an Android user a squirt gun emoji, the Android user will receive a gun emoji. Apple's decision breaks compatibility between different phones. Moreover, Apple wants people to be able to express themselves, so they should not remove tools that allow people to fully express themselves. We should be worried about the role of big companies in deciding and controlling what we can/can't say or what emoji we can/can't use.
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Facebook must show it can follow its own rules on child safety
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is struggling to comply to its own rules which prohibit all nudity from the platform. Their artificial intelligence software designed to take down all images of nudity works unreliably. Although Facebook is one of the safest spaces online, there are still problems.
Image Description | Reuters image of a lot of Facebook logos through a magnifying glass.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo
Fighting fake news: societies using technology to search for truth
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 0.0.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, fake news, politics, social media, threat
Summary | Many countries are trying to combat fake news and urging Facebook to find ways of combatting fake news. They influence elections by deceiving people and that is a great problem. It is nearly impossible to identify fake news with a program, it takes a human. Facebook is now allowing users to flag suspicious content, which is then reviewed and if deemed fake, labeled as such and displayed with a lower priority. Fake news are not taken off of Facebook because that would be censorship.
Image Description | Shutterstock images of protesters against fake news.
Image Tags | female(s), text
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