Schlagwort: censorship

Exaggerated corporate sensitivities? We publish excerpts from the moderation rules of TikTok which show that not only political content made the video platform nervous. The naming of competitors and criticism of the company were also punished.

Never before has a platform grown as fast as TikTok. We have gained exclusive insight into its content moderation and are publishing excerpts from its moderation rules: TikTok operates a sophisticated system to identify, control, suppress and direct content. The platform can throttle videos of protests and demonstrations according to its rules.

On facebook, people and pages are suddenly losing thousands of friends and followers. Particularly affected were accounts criticizing Turkey. Facebook rejects accusations of censorship and claims to be taking measures against fake accounts among followers. However the accounts in question are genuine.

Auf der re:publica 2017 sprachen Raegan MacDonald (Mozilla), Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt (International Music Managers Forum), Diego Naranjo (European Digital Rights) und Caroline De Cock (Copyright for Creativity) über von der EU-Kommission geplante Upload-Filter. Ihre Kritik an diesen Filtern in zwei Sätzen: Inhalt von YouTube anzeigen In diesem Fenster soll ein YouTube-Video wiedergegeben werden. Hierbei fließen personenbezogene […]

In der Reihe unserer Vortragsempfehlungen des 32. Chaos Communication Congress geht es diesmal um Zensur und die Selbstverteidigung dagegen. Ende Dezember letzten Jahres fand in Hamburg der 32. Chaos Communication Congress statt, von dem wir mehrfach berichtet haben. Bei weit über einhundert gehaltenen Vorträgen zu Technik-, Politik-, Kunst- und Gesellschaftsthemen ist es äußerst schwer zu […]

An anonymous hacker has reverse-engineered and published the once-secret blacklist of URLs produced by a German federal agency. He or she did this mainly out of technical curiosity – and found that it was really easy to do. The hacker hopes not go get sued for this action – and offers a general critique on secret, state-sponsored internet censorship.

Lesenswerter und ausführlicher Artikel heute im Berliner Tagesspiegel: der Schriftsteller Ha Jin (哈金, eigtl. 金雪飞/金雪飛) berichtet über Chinas Zensur, „Das System der tausend Augen“. Es funktioniert nach dem Prinzip 內緊外鬆 (nèi jǐn wài sōng): nach innen hart, nach außen weich. In der Außendarstellung der Zensur ist also kaum erkennbar, wie unnachgiebig sie nach innen wirkt. […]

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TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship

Voices Critical of Turkey mysteriously losing thousands of followers on Facebook

re:publica 2017 – Die europäische Zensur-Maschine rollt an

32C3 zum Nachschauen: Zensur & digitale Selbstverteidigung

Interview with BPjM-Leaker: Website Blacklists shouldn’t be done „in an intransparent way by a government“

Chinas Zensur: „System der tausend Augen“