Former software engineer Alec Muffett, who worked on security issues at the company, said the company's growth obsession — notably its decision to build
a censorship tool in hopes of gaining access to the Chinese market — led him to quit the company.
Unveiling a new
censorship tool in China could lead to more demands to suppress content from other countries.
Researchers also identified the hardware component used to implement AdHose is also used as
a censorship tool in Egypt.
Not exact matches
Last October, Durov wrote
in a post on Twitter that Iranian authorities had demanded the company provide them with «spying and
censorship tools.»
Hence the CEO can decry authoritarianism
in a speech for Ivy League students, despite leading a company that has shut down Russian dissidents and toyed with building
censorship tools for China's government.
As blame fell to Facebook for Trump's election, word of Facebook prototyping a
censorship tool for operating
in China escaped, triggering questions about its respect for human rights and free speech.
But
in 2010 and 2011, Tunisians were a people armed with the
tools to fight back — including proxy accounts and other means of hiding online activity that had become common
in the days of web
censorship.
In addition, the Committee is concerned about the capacity for copyright to be used as a
tool of
censorship, as Sir Laurence Street warned.
CCLA,
in partnership with PEN Canada, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has launched
Censorship Tracker, an online crowd - sourced mapping
tool to monitor threats to freedom of expression
in Canada.
Considerable efforts have been made
in less repressive countries to provide
tools to avoid such detection and
censorship.
As blame fell to Facebook for Trump's election, word of Facebook prototyping a
censorship tool for operating
in China escaped, triggering questions about its respect for human rights and free speech.
In 2016, Facebook Inc. developed a censorship tool that suppresses posts from appearing in news feeds in specific geographie
In 2016, Facebook Inc. developed a
censorship tool that suppresses posts from appearing
in news feeds in specific geographie
in news feeds
in specific geographie
in specific geographies.
The new moderation
tool allows the users to satiate their brand of
censorship as appropriate as they may find it
in their own way so that they can avoid possible conflicts and dodge any sort of harassment complaints.