21 July: The Weekly Takedown
by Jillian C. York | Jul 21 2016
- Facebook has been accused by several publications of censoring Kashmiri news analysts and bloggers.
- Twitter has banned Milo Yiannopolous, a writer for alt-right site Breitbart, after he harassed actress Leslie Jones with a series of racist and sexist tweets.
- After Facebook banned gun sales on its platform, BoingBoing writes that the company has done little to implement the ban.
- Google recently deleted the 14-year-old blog of writer and artist Dennis Cooper from its Blogger platform without notice. Cooper’s blog, which deals with sexual and violent themes, had a content warning.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jillian C. York
Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work lies at the intersection of technology and policy. Based in Berlin, she serves of the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she works on issues of free expression, privacy, and digital security.
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