Recently, Facebook has been accused of actively censoring the accounts of conservative bloggers. As might be expected, Facebook posters from the opposite end of the social and political spectrum have reported liberal censorship as well. Perhaps the problem isn’t a systematic political bias, but instead overzealous application of censorship defined by Facebook’s community standards. Individual [...]
Twitter, which has been strongly committed to “keeping the Tweets flowing,” today unveiled its first Twitter Transparency Report. This report documents the requests the microblogging service receives from governments and copyright holders requesting Twitter to take down content or divulge user information. Taking a cue from Google, which publishes a similar report, the report’s primary [...]
Herdict Technical Director Mike King and I attended the first (annual?) EU Hackathon held last week in Brussels, Belgium. This event, sponsored by Google and Skype, was an opportunity to educate members of European Parliament about Internet censorship, filtering, and the need for transparency. It was also an opportunity for 54 programmers to demonstrate the [...]
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