Facebook and Instagram ban Myanmar’s military

Posted on 25/02/2021 by Engadget

Facebook and Instagram have indefinitely banned the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw) from the platforms. Military-controlled state and media entities are no longer welcome on the platform following this month's coup either. Nor are ads from commerc...

Xiaomi files court challenge against US ban

Posted on 30/01/2021 by Engadget

Xiaomi isn’t wasting time disputing the US’ decision to put it on a list of Chinese military-backed companies and ban American investments. Reuters reports the Chinese phone giant has filed a legal complaint against the US Defense and Treasury Depart...

Facebook’s Oversight Board will review Trump’s suspension

Posted on 21/01/2021 by Engadget

Facebook’s Oversight Board will decide whether to restore Donald Trump’s access to that platform and Instagram. Both services locked the former president out of his accounts for 24 hours earlier this month over policy violations in the wake of the US...

Russia bans ‘Death Note’ and other ‘violent’ anime

Posted on 21/01/2021 by Engadget

It seems a Russian court has started to scribble the names of anime series in a mysterious black notebook. A district court banned Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul and Inuyashiki on certain streaming websites over worries that teens are recreating violent act...

YouTube extends Trump’s suspension ahead of inauguration day

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Engadget

YouTube will continue blocking Donald Trump’s official channel from uploading new videos and livestreams for a minimum of seven more days. The Google—owned video platform told CNBC and Bloomberg that it extended the channel’s suspension “[i]n light o...

Snap permanently closes Donald Trump’s account

Posted on 14/01/2021 by Engadget

Last week, as many social networks took steps to ban or restrict President Trump’s posts in the wake of violent riots that attacked Capitol Hill, Snap indefinitely suspended his account on its service. Today, the company announced that shutdown is pe...

YouTube removes content from Donald Trump’s channel, blocks new uploads

Posted on 13/01/2021 by Engadget

After a Trump rally and march ended with an assault on the Capitol by supporters of the president, many social media companies responded by banning his accounts or limiting Donald Trump’s posts. YouTube previously removed a video where Donald Trump c...

TikTok ban will remove videos of Donald Trump inciting rioters

Posted on 08/01/2021 by Engadget

Unlike Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and YouTube, Donald Trump does not have a TikTok account for the service to suspend, but it is laying a ban down on certain content related to Wednesday’s riots in Washington D.C. People who support the president stor...

Twitch bans the PogChamp emote following Capitol Hill riots

Posted on 07/01/2021 by Engadget

Twitch has banned the popular PogChamp emote after the face of it, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, encouraged further violence. “We’ve made the decision to remove the PogChamp emote following statements from the face of the emote encouraging further viole...

TikTok’s deadline comes and goes with no sale and no ban, yet

Posted on 05/12/2020 by Engadget

After months of wrangling, proposals, court rulings and a few extensions, a deadline set by the Trump Administration’s Treasury Department mandated a sale for TikTok by today, December 4th. The day is almost over (on the East Coast, anyway), and ther...

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