we're more politicized than ever we're 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 the. freedom of speech and social media bends censorship of double standards who should judge what can be said online. the internet audience snow totals almost 4500000000 almost all of them are effective social network users put one wrong move on their pages deleted digital

annihilation don't exist anymore. it's 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 power. reasonable for a community but i will have reasonable way to. build altman is a co-founder of the social network mine's 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 that 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. and 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 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 pull internet users aged 13 and over. in the same year google both 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 great isn't oh i love i.

love people on social media aren't political they're not they're doing stupid in an auction 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 after 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 their neighbors so last saw feelingless are calling a little later why don't think. you got it across but 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 starters so true such. were just hit until after. the mazola moment and since when if it can you just because it is several strong of people over there should be a car and i started to go but we should see how this could go to considerable space for me to. know this was crazy to skew voters just faded. 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 publish or speak of any information provided by another information content provider. section 230 exempt 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 says shelly nearby now playing for your cost low that they love that are playing a swing at us kind of wild card someone 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 law clerk for my pocket i mean 0 showing you what the bahraini only means i will stop buying tickets i have found out that sextile in canada some most but 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. as.

one of the. 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 a dress trick to 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 of 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.

just me. so there is no. economy to progress through these i recently. read where they stand up to me and. to show 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 $16000.00 broke ports on the internet political censorship. to 30 was granted on the communications. to 3rd. but they said this is what's critical

no time during the course of your existence social media or. you to be ever considered a publisher you're not a publisher noodle make editorial decisions as to what goes on nor sight. 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 he january. a relic from supporters and their march to save america erupted into a storming of the capitol practically controlled the congress building for several alice 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 trumpeter used for years as his main political mel's piece imposed a permanent ban on the president and he had 88000000 followers then it snowballed even further. the e-commerce platform shopify blocks full of donald trump's online

stores pay pal also shut down all fundraising 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. on the phone one day you're talking to somebody. all of a sudden your phone goes dead. when you say that was odd and you call the person back into i'm sorry i was just i was just talking to you about cold door trum or whoever and it 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. the british and american governments have often been accused of destroying lives in their own interests what you see in this these techniques is the state devising methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific means this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation psychological torture. disseminated within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among allies for the next 30 years and other victims say they still live with the consequences today.

during the vietnam war u.s. forces also bombs neighboring laos it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. until our. mouth country per capita. millions of unexploded bombs

still in danger lives in this small agricultural country jordyn wieber. even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago is the u.s. making amends for that tragedy and what help to the people need. in that little land of miles. from. the from from eleanor. from the tomb of the unknown soldier in the kremlin's walls the lamplit from the attorney 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 the 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 signs here stamped i sat separate out of it i snatched there he's a cock now up on top of me you talk about how after much time should be the hollis but the most down how much it has its effectiveness just what i want to get out just the way a salad but alas addition of content that is strong margins 0 to $1.00 store you still would have gone to brussels and now probably in that regard south when you started is that sickly she was afraid of 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 have gained a holiday 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 networks officials started to delete the neo nazi materials however traces of them can still be found quite easily. now i just.

am staggered here. 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 and suddenly searches for russia today. returning any results. films as inappropriate and offensive 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 terrorists 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. read it. into american radical groups and street protests. inappropriate and offensive.

thank you. alexandra god is a famous journalist in russia what happened to him and his documentary is now much talked about this 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 . the film was aired by the national t.v. channel. but a few days later google suddenly blocked the film from

a wider audience by giving it an age restriction. court order to 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 of the be jealous but it's they. who was foolish to move. so it's a move that about the well. being to a group. of dollar and with nothing. but at the center of the war. given. by lee well you

know. this is the letter we sent to google asking for comment and we have still received no response. i was going. in that way to. your ideas tear him down absolutely. and i see. that the. mutual. 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 the press trix content intended for a russian audience decisions will immediately be sent to the federal service for the supervision of information technology and mass media.

ordering the. infamous. if. i were. 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 any demands sent their way not to mention that all user information is stored on servers abroad.

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chinese media. witness tell the internet and the rules controlling it have changed in china where an entire generation has grown up with us strictly sulpher an internet only a handful of people mostly foreigners use v.p.n. tools to circumvent the restrictions. kid that's a sim deaf boneyard come forth just to. be facebook. in this town the side of the family and now i'm going to that i'm watching my trip and everyone on their board missed the boat sample cathartics that goes up like here on this is serious to me chad. is in a chair get away and then get a little war. come on my lael small deer is a cousin and you don't doubt that it has been a stiff born there if shotover chance you're. a good buddy of

letting them visit each other on the. digital walls on l. being built on every continent india is blocking chinese herbs 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 iran instead iranian users have their own social network. with a persian language interface the list goes on and governments are no longer just blocking web resources in rare cases it's becoming a global trend. because it's a bigger story when you go stop. by all agree with me i knew. there was nothing at the citadel not show us bother.

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