The Weekly Takedown: 7 December 2016
by Jillian C. York | Dec 6 2016
404: Twitter, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google have joined forces to take down "terror content" using a centralized database.
CENSORED: A new report from Citizen Lab looks at how China’s WeChat platform is taking censorship abroad.
PRIDE: Singer Mykko Blanco accuses YouTube of having a "homophobic double standard" after his music video was removed from the site.
LONG READ: In an opinion piece, professor @karaalaimo argues against censorship of cyberspace.
BONUS: Onlinecensorship.org's Jillian C. York and Matthew Stender weigh in on the Facebook "fake news" controversy.
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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