for their parents. were more politicized than ever or more polarized than ever the 21st century when speed is measured in megabytes per 2nd. electronic mail electronic money electronic media infinite possibilities for exchanging information i mean me and my wife the freedom of speech and social media bent censorship and double standards who should judge what can be said online. the internet audience know totals almost 4500000000 almost all of them are effective social network users put one wrong move on their pages deleted digital.

don't exist anymore. not who runs the show on the web how can anyone stand up to the tech giants if even the heads of state face the threat of being banned is there any limits to hold that virtual. but i will have reasonable way to. build alterman is a co-founder of the social network minds dot com it describes itself as an independent platform for the frank exchange of opinions the company has twice fallen foul of censorship by facebook and google for almost a year. was unavailable in google play. their apparent reason for taking us off was for a not even particularly explicit image of woman in

a bikini or something like that maybe maybe somebody part was showing but it was it was actually had a bore on it so it was. but then i appealed showed them their work twitter allows total pornography and yet you're not banning twitter twitter so why are you banning us facebook you tube of instagram to talk and twitter the most popular online platforms today a brave new world with no boundaries the pioneers achieved a real breakthrough in 2006 when facebook opened up to all internet users aged 13 and over. in the same year google bought the online video sharing platform you tube which had rapidly gained popularity the audience for these services has grown with each passing year if you are still here media and you say isn't bread great aren't kittens wonderful isn't music grade isn't oh i love i.

love people on close social media aren't political they're not 'd they're doing stupid in and out she was things lionel is a well known media analyst and radio host he's certain that even though the internet has long been a reliable tool for promoting anything you like there are only certain things that you can say take a currently relevant topic for example covert vaccines sputnik v russia's inoculation had come under a lot of criticism in the west even in its early development stages twitter even temporarily blocked the vaccines account but the table soon turned off to the lancet the reputable medical journal published a positive review in no time for in mass media declared sputnik deemed to be safe and effective knowing over my head and they were so lost so our feeling was are calling only one little thing. you gotta cut out i won't want to put in my children later shane. until very recently i can corporation basically manage the whole

global network the company was founded in the late 1990 s. as a nonprofit organization and. operated under a contract with the u.s. department of commerce which had the power to veto any decisions that the company made the foreign you know that is for something is so true such clearly has to come with a course no or just it until after. it's into the zone and that's when it accumulates because it is sort of the strong of the will of god as a virtuous cycle and i started to move but we should say others can do considerable space i mean. this was crazy to skew voters just. pushed. by the end of 2016 the us government under international pressure did eventually relinquish control over i can't. the basic principles of web interaction not contained in section 230 of the communications decency act. the major part of that

section consists of just 26 words. no provide out or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. section 230 exempts social networks from responsibility for almost anything their users might publish so no one can sue facebook for anything posted on their platform only the original poster at the same time the social networks have free rein to block any content they deem undesirable. if administrator is choose to remove your content you'd have no chance in court you must play by their rules. this session i knew by now playing for your cost found out in london are playing a swing at us kind of wild card telling just throwing our social today and would take me across quite so i found out the one that out soon to really come what if i

am wrong for the park i mean 0 showing you what the parlay namely means or stop buying tickets i have found out of sex i like are there are some guys that are only i am. only. this is the safety internet leaks office a major russian organization specifically created to counter dangerous information and fake news across the world wide web. every day. is for inappropriate content. the specialist at the center says you can find almost anything on you tube public beatings abuse even murder which appears life from time to time. and.

teenagers make up the main demographic for shocking content like that they have mastered the art of composing the search queries to find exactly what they're looking for even if the video is age restricted easily work around it. however neither violence nor the live broadcast of crimes being committed the internet giants seem content to turn

a blind eye to that but what about politics former u.s. president donald trump has clashed openly with twitter and facebook on numerous occasions and accused both of being strict if when it comes to the grand ole. parties content they cite several examples to support that claim for several years facebook's trending news section basically functioned as a mass media editorial team which systematically removed articles generated by conservative media outlets from trending topics. copies of internal guidelines were leaks to journalists at the guardian newspaper. this document shows that choices were made by a computer algorithm alone as facebook had claimed up to the last moment. you should mark a topic is national story importance if it is among the one to 3 top stories of the day we measure this by checking if it is leading at least 5 of the following 10 news websites. this is notable to.

me. so this now this is. going to be the programs. where they stand up to me and. to me that's a little bit of news also seized in late may 2020 before the end of his presidential term donald trump signed an executive order preventing online censorship of the content of the document was published on the white house's website but on joe biden's 1st day in office it mysteriously disappeared the executive order was to impact section 230 specifically. trump suggested revoking the social networks immunity from legal claims and he wanted to check on more than 16 felzenberg ports on internet political censorship. to 30 was granted on the

communications decency. to 3rd. but they said this is what's critical no time during the course of your existence social media or. to me ever considered a publisher you're not a publisher noodle make editorial decisions as to what goes on your site. donald trump issued those instructions after yet another conflict with twitter the service marks 2 of his messages as misleading specifically the one relating to possible mail in voting fraud trump responded by accusing the social network of interfering with the coming election with us or. matters came to a head you know early january. a relic from supporters and to save america erupted into a storming of the capitol practically controlled the congress building for several

allies some posed for photos in the congress hole and in congressman's offices others chased police officers along colorado's upstairs gunfire was heard repeatedly on different floors 4 people died in the assault and more than 50 were injured democrats in american media outlets immediately held trump responsible for inciting the violence with his tweets. as i have been saying for a long time twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech and tonight twitter employees have coordinated with the democrats and radical left in removing my account from their platform to silence me and you the 75000000 great patriots who voted for me. twitter the platform the trump card used for years as his main political piece imposed a permanent ban on the president and he had 88000000 followers then it snowballed even further. to e-commerce platform shock if i blow a hole of donald trump's online stores pay pal also shut down all fund raising

activities for trump and his associates after twitter he's also been banned from snap chat reddit and twitch. was viewed as a no censorship social network with a lot of conservative users google has removed it from its place. in year on the phone one day and you're talking to somebody. all of a sudden you phone goes dead. and you say that was odd and you call the person back and you say i'm sorry i was just i was just talking to you about kovi door traum or whoever and he goes dead again what if your phone carrier were to say well we don't want you to talk about certain things that are disinformation wise was incorrect hate you would say you're a phone company you're a phone carrier you can't limit what i'm saying that's the way i feel when social

media kicked you off of their platform. was a pandemic no certainly no borders just blocking 2 nationalities. you . judge us commoners. we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been so

many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. during the vietnam war u.s. forces also bombs neighboring laos there was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. how much it is especially the mouse can rebound country per capita all human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country jordyn wieber going to happen. even today kids in laos fall victim to bombs dropped decades ago is the us making amends for their tragedy in laos what help do the people need in that little land of mines.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see that. from the tomb of the unknown soldier in the kremlin's walls the lamp lit from the attorney flame was delivered to belgrade particular importance was attached to this ceremony and anything to do with world war 2 in both serbia and russia. because it was with the russian delegation for several years now she has headed the national civic movement victory volunteers their website suffers regular d.o.'s attacks and

their you tube videos are often blocked to access can't only be restricted by you tube administrators but by ordinary users as well all you have to do is complain if enough complaints are filed the video is banned that's what happened in november when the victory volunteers held an international historical online event commemorating the nuremberg trials star sam mendes camped i sat separate out of the i snatched there he's a cock now toward me you talk about how after much time should be the hardest but the most and how much it has if secretary myself but i want to get out just the way it shall but last edition of content that is to march of 02 i want story is really different than abruptly now probably in that regard it's out when you started is that seclusion a prayer from what if i meet islam or any one person i see. facebook too had issues with similar content and dozens of users who posted this iconic photo raising a flag over the right by military photographer you gain

a whole day temporarily banned. your post violates our community standards concerning dangerous individuals and organizations your publication has been hidden from others these rules have been enacted to prevent harm to anyone in the real world facebook recently became embroiled in a scandal over a neo nazi content a london based advocacy organization discovered several groups with around $80000.00 followers all belonging to white racists. groups as well as radical propaganda they have actively been selling extremist merchandise swastikas black uniforms and. it was a very long time before facebook took action but when observer journalist brought the issue to the attention of the network's officials they started to delete the neo nazi materials however traces of them can still be found quite easily.

so. even. if. russia's communications watchdog there were more than 20 instances of censorship against russian media outlets by foreign internet companies in 2020 twitter went further and introduced special labels for accounts belonging to officials and russian state affiliated media then suddenly searches for russia today stopped returning any results. films as you know appropriate and. featuring material that. a film titled in the name of the prophet is about the so-called islamic states oil

trade in northeastern syria possible connection between turkey and the terrorist it was openly accessible for years. on the same platform a former judge can be seen justifying the murder of a school teacher because he showed caricature of the prophet muhammad. to be viewed with no restriction anyone can still see it. can't. be any. american radical groups and street protests. inappropriate and offensive.

thank you. alexander a god is a famous journalist in russia what happened to him and his documentary is now much talked about his film tells the head of 2004 when terrorists held an entire school in beslan hostage more than 300 people died in that atrocity including 186 children . in. the film by the national t.v. channel one. but a few days later google suddenly blocked the film from a wider audience by giving it an age restriction.

court ordered google to lift the restrictions as they contravenes the constitutional rights of russian citizens to freedom of speech and information. however google representatives officially stated that they disagreed with the ruling would appeal and would not lift the restrictions. but. who. well. this is the letter we sent to google asking for comment. we have still received no response.

that was going. in a way to fill our ideals but your ideas tear him down absolutely nothing like i just in the book and i see. that the. you tube the phrasebook now would feel giants who may face being blocked a new law introduces the concept of a web resource owner who will be held responsible for violating russian users' rights this could be applied to almost any platform that restricts content intended for a russian audience decisions will immediately be sent to the federal service for the supervision of information technology and mass media. that will stop. the war phone ordering the. infamous.

one of the bill's sponsors alexandra de and of the state duma refers to these measures as disincentives he claims that until recently they had no way to counter the tech giants they don't really have permanent bases in russia and are not subject to russian law. and they usually ignore. their way not to mention that all user information is stored abroad. suggests an increased. traffic to be the most effective measure

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china took the 1st steps towards creating a national internet for 20 years now the country's great. in the country and it does it. you tube and twitter blacklisted later the golden shield learns to reset the p.m.'s which were commonly used to bypass the restrictions. of those that are with. the sitting room you would. get a minute he. smothers to get those c'mon build. their speech you. know you don't know what it is to. a reporter inside knowledge of she's worked for several chinese media outlets and

witnessed tell the internet and the rules controlling it have changed in china where an entire generation has grown up with us strictly sulfur and internet only a handful of people mostly foreigners use v.p.n. tools to circumvent the restrictions. kid that's a sim death bowling here come forth just to. be facebook. in this town the side of the family and now i'm going to it that i'm watching. t.v. and they're bored missed the boat sample cathartics that there's a black kid on this is to chat. shit as i chat get what i'm doing get a little war. come on my lael slow india is a cousin and you don't doubt that as an ace born there. that good but he had been a better chair than the. digital walls are now being built on every continent india

is blocking chinese apps and creating its own tick-tock like turkey is passing a law to control social media content it requires i.t. companies to help local offices to interact with government officials facebook twitter and you tube have long gone from their own instead to radio and users have their own social network. with the persian language interface the list goes on and on governments are no longer just blocking web resources in rare cases it's becoming a global trend. the 1st machine understood that it. could but it's a bigger story when you go stop. sure you strongly polishers i mean i'm loyal but i only agree with me when you will probably go by you see if you do something is also at the citadel not show off spada cockleshell the sheer beauty to watch cod mila to be in the police so for all.

seems wrong. rowles just don't hold. any gold yet to shape our disdain comes to council. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime but old wounds still haven't healed. and they seem to you know cells of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption i don't know. to this day mothers still search for grown children. hope for their birth parents. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this period dramatic development that only . exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time

to sit down and talk. in the headlines this sunday morning from moscow armenia's prime minister raises the stakes this weekend sending an order to dismiss the country's top general back to the president of the rejected it setting the stage then for a constitutional showdown as crowds in the capital continue to demand the. stories of the. code. used in europe as people refuse but. at the same time as the world health organization is pointing to drastic shortages in. health organization special envoy 19 speaks directly to us in the week the.