Much of that has focused on TikTok, which has become the dominant app for millions of Americans. A lot of people are torn about our new reality, however. Few seem to have the exact relationship ...

“Tech firms should not be bullying their users,” declared Federal Trade Commission head Andrew Ferguson in announcing an investigation of Big Tech censorship and shadow banning. Ferguson’s ...

Not only did federal agencies fund these efforts, but they also coordinated censorship of groups and individuals with opposing views, even objecting to jokes on the internet. Universities cashed ...

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Source: Biggie SmallsSource: "Murder of Biggie Smalls/St. Martin's Press Voletta Wallace died this week at 78. Her only son was the late Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. hip-hop artist Biggie Smalls ...

Many in the world of arts and humanities fear that a climate of censorship is impending - and it's far from the only concern. 'Assault on free expression' In January, President Donald Trump signed ...

New York rapper The Notorious B.I.G., also known as Biggie Smalls, died in 1997 at 24 in a shooting. After her son's death, Wallace was dedicated to keeping his memory alive through advocacy and ...

Alexander Smalls is Southern through and through. “I’m like Faulkner,” he says. “We put commas, not periods on everything—it’s never over.” This sentiment rings true not only in his ...

Likewise, Germany’s strict Internet censorship law, which went into effect in 2018, was swiftly used to punish not only anti-immigrant tweets by leaders of Germany’s far-right Alternative for ...

Censorship continues to be used today still in these situations and through the regulation of social media platforms, as seen in the recent TikTok ban. While censorship has been justified under the ...