25 January 2017: The Weekly Takedown
by Jillian C. York | Jan 25 2017
404: Russian media outlet RT was temporarily banned from posting videos, photos and links for 24 hours, seemingly due to their livestream of Obama’s final press conference.
NSFW: A secret loophole allows “pirates” to bypass YouTube’s content controls and share pornography on the service.
SPEECH!: Twitter and Facebook are being sued by families of terror victims, who accuse the social media giants of material support for terrorism.
LONG READ: The Gatestone Institute weighs in on “fake news” and the “censorship industry” that wants to rid the internet of it.
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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