Censorship

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Free Speech vs. Cancel Culture: Reasons for Optimism
From social media to controversial statues, the free speech debate is more alive than ever. New tech can help safeguard history while letting us live our values.
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Jack Dorsey Has Floated Decentralized Fact-Checking at Twitter. Here's What That Could Look Like
Twitter's CEO has endorsed the idea of decentralized fact-checking. We looked at some prototypes to see what that might look like.
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Alexandra Elbakyan, the woman behind SciHub, at a conference at Harvard in 2010.
Blackballed by PayPal, Scientific-Paper Pirate Takes Bitcoin Donations
Bitcoin has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals.
Alexandra Elbakyan, the woman behind SciHub, at a conference at Harvard in 2010.

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Tearing Down Monuments Isn't Censorship – It's Speech
Removing monuments to fit the values of the day is not censorship. It is an act of speech in and of itself, says our columnist.
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Unstoppable Domains Launches Censorship-Resistant Blogging Platform
Decentralized blogging is coming to a .crypto URL near you thanks to a partnership between Unstoppable Domains and Protocol Labs.
Unstoppable Domains CEO Matthew Gould (left) and CTO Braden Pezeshki (Credit: Unstoppable Domains)

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'We Need 30 Different Words for Censorship,' Feat. Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The rallying cry of the totalitarian is "He farted first", but if both systems have produced similar outcomes, is there much of a difference? Today's wide-ranging discussion...
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InterPlanetary File System Is Uncensorable During Coronavirus News Fog
Digital citizens are turning to decentralized protocols like IPFS to share news during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Russia Seeks to Block 'Darknet' Technologies, Including Telegram's Blockchain
A Russian government agency has requested contractor bids to find ways to block censorship-resistant internet tech, including one blockchain: Telegram's.
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YouTube Temporarily Bans Two Popular Crypto Channels Claiming Policy Breach
The YouTube policy cited didn't mention digital assets.
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Handshake's Uncensorable Web Domains Go Live on Mainnet
Namebase CEO Tieshun Roquerre joins @nlw to talk about why uncensorable web domains matter as Handshake goes live to mainnet.
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