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India threatens to jail Facebook, WhatsApp & Twitter staff over refusal to wipe data that ‘undermines national security’

RT | March 6, 2021 Indian authorities have reportedly given an ultimatum to US social media platforms, threatening jail time for their local employees if the companies continue to ignore official takedown requests against “damaging” information. Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter have each received written notices warning their employees could face arrest should the requests be […]

House Republicans Propose Legislation to Allow Biden to Ban Sanctioned Foreign Leaders From Social Media

By Kirill Kurevlev – Sputnik – 03.03.2021 US House Republicans are introducing legislation that would broaden US sanctions law to ban social media platforms from letting foreign persons or organizations which were put under sanctions for terrorism from using their services, Fox News reported Tuesday citing a copy of the bill. The law bill is reportedly proposed by […]

Twitter searches for revenue, looks at subscriptions, pay to read tweets

Twitter searches for revenue, looks at subscriptions, pay to read tweets ****News Topic 309***** Tech CEO says Twitter needs to go ‘all in’ on subscriptions Tech CEO says Twitter needs to go ‘all in’ on subscriptions Twitter’s days as a completely free platform could be ending. According to comments made by CEO Jack Dorsey at […]

As Leaks Expose UK Op to ‘Weaken’ Russia, Suppression of Grayzone Reporting Backfires

Twitter added an unprecedented “warning” to Max Blumenthal’s Grayzone article about explosive leaks revealing a massive UK government anti-Russia propaganda operation involving Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat. Instead of suppressing the article, it went viral. By Max BLUMENTHAL, Aaron MATÉ After […]

Russian Foreign Ministry: Twitter no longer independent social media, but a tool of ‘digital diktat’ under control of West

By Jonny Tickle | RT | February 26, 2021 Twitter is rapidly changing from an independent platform into a tool of Western countries to impose a dictatorship over the internet. That’s according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, following a recent ban of Russian accounts. Speaking on Friday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova blasted the US […]

Twitter purge of accounts "Undermining Faith In NATO"

Twitter purge of accounts “Undermining Faith In NATO” ****News Topic 304***** Twitter Says It Purged Dozens Of Accounts For “Undermining Faith In NATO” Twitter Says It Purged Dozens Of Accounts For “Undermining Faith In NATO” Twitter has announced it recently suspended dozens of accounts for undermining confidence in NATO. It was part of a broader […]

‘Undermining faith in NATO’ is now grounds for Twitter ban, because certain kinds of politics have become a religion

By Nebojsa Malic | RT | February 25, 2021 Heresy against NATO has apparently joined the ever-expanding list of sins that will get one erased from Twitter, as Big Tech mounts a crusade against infidels at home and abroad on behalf of values of Our Democracy. Twitter announced bans on 373 accounts it connected to “state-linked information operations” on […]

Twitter’s Attempt to Suppress Grayzone Reporting Backfires as Warning Label Becomes Meme

“The new Twitter scare label illustrates the threat our kind of factual reporting presents to a national security state that must employ social media censorship to conceal its agenda from the public.” -- The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal
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How the Big-Tech monopolies are hurting their own value

By David James | OffGuardian | February 19, 2021 The increasing censorship by the tech monopolies is rightly prompting protests from those who see it as an attack on free speech. What has been less noticed, however, is that the social media companies are adopting one of the strangest, and potentially most self-defeating, business strategies […]