Tag: Censorship
Australia withdraws a misinformation bill after critics compare it to censorship
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's government has withdrawn a bill that would give a media watchdog power to monitor digital platforms and require them...
Richard N. Winfield, First Amendment lawyer and former AP counsel, dies at 91
NEW YORK -- Richard N. Winfield, a leading U.S. First Amendment lawyer who represented The Associated Press for three decades and championed freedom...
Musk offers voters $1 million to sign PAC petition backing the Constitution. Can that be legal?
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X and owner of X who's gone all-in on Republican Donald Trump's candidacy for...
Internet surveillance firm Sandvine says it’s leaving 56 ‘non-democratic’ countries
Sandvine, the makers of surveillance-ware that allowed authoritarian countries to censor the internet and spy on their citizens, announced that it is leaving...
Musk's X skirts Brazil ban and returns to some users with change to server access
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Some Brazilian users regained access to X on Wednesday despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country's...
Musk deletes post about Harris and Biden assassination after widespread criticism
Elon Musk has deleted a post on his social media platform X in which he said “no one is even trying to assassinate”...