Published on: 2025-04-25 03:25:26
In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created at the end of 2024, it was reorganized from the Global Engagement Center, a larger office with a similar mission that had long been criticized by conservatives who claimed that, despite its international mission, it was censoring American conservatives. In 2023, Elon Musk called the center the “wo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 17:23:30
*Authors in alphabetical order – all contributed equally Abstract Censors worldwide have long censored unencrypted HTTP traffic. In this blog post, we show that a specific HTTP version—unencrypted HTTP/2—is unaffected by censorship in China and Iran. We access otherwise censored websites in both countries over unencrypted HTTP/2. Despite no web browser implementing unencrypted HTTP/2, we detect that up to 6.28% of websites support unencrypted HTTP/2 traffic. To aid the community and ease futur
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 13:37:50
Key findings We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region. While many of the shipping restrictions are related to regulations involving WiFi, car seats, and other heavily regulated product categories, the most common product category restricted by Amazon in our study was books. Banned books were largely related
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 18:37:50
Key findings We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region. While many of the shipping restrictions are related to regulations involving WiFi, car seats, and other heavily regulated product categories, the most common product category restricted by Amazon in our study was books. Banned books were largely related
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 06:05:00
A complaint about poverty in rural China. A news report about a corrupt Communist Party member. A cry for help about corrupt cops shaking down entrepreneurs. These are just a few of the 133,000 examples fed into a sophisticated large language model that’s designed to automatically flag any piece of content considered sensitive by the Chinese government. A leaked database seen by TechCrunch reveals China has developed an AI system that supercharges its already formidable censorship machine, ext
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 18:00:23
Rushil Agrawal / Android Authority Gemini is hands-down one of my favorite tools, but it doesn’t always answer every question I ask it. Certain topics are completely off-limits, and that piqued my curiosity. I wanted to dig into which subjects it avoids and figure out whether AI censorship makes any sense — or if it’s just overreach. I started researching the topics Gemini doesn’t want to discuss and then asked it a barrage of questions in five different areas to see which ones it’d dodge. The
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 13:04:00
A hot potato: Mark Zuckerberg is a vocal proponent of free speech, especially since Donald Trump was re-elected, but it seems the Meta CEO hasn't always been so anti-censorship. There have long been reports that Facebook developed a content suppression tool for the Chinese market. Now, new details about the system have surfaced. Last April, Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook global policy director who was fired in 2017, revealed in a complaint filed with the SEC that Facebook sought a footh
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Google is once again in the crosshairs of Republicans in Congress because of alleged censorship, Bloomberg writes. The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Google's parent company Alphabet and CEO Sundar Pichai for evidence of communication between the tech company and the Biden administration. The subpoena specifically asks for documents covering communications between Alphabet and the executive branch, along with discussions Alphabet might have had internally or with third-parties about t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 18:40:38
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is interviewed by FOX and Friends at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent subpoenas to eight technology companies asking for more information about their communications with foreign governments over concerns that they seek to "censor speech" in the U.S. The subpoenas were sent Wednesday to the CEOs of Google parent Alphabet , Meta , Amazon , Apple , Microsoft and TikTok, as well as X and video platform Rumble.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 03:20:25
The Federal Trade Commission today announced a public inquiry into alleged censorship online, saying it wants "to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users' access to services based on the content of their speech or affiliations, and how this conduct may have violated the law." "Tech firms should not be bullying their users," said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who was chosen by President Trump to lead the commission. "This inquiry will help the FTC better understand how t
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