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TikTok permanently suspended the promotional account for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary shortly before its wider release, escalating earlier ad-rejection disputes involving TikTok and X, while YouTube and Meta reversed course.

Netizens reported that some Huawei phones, such as the Huawei Pura X, could not play a Douyin video in which car media Dongchedi showed three Zunjie V800 brake pedal brackets fracturing during emergency braking tests, while phones from other brands played it normally. The video was reportedly taken down after it circulated.

Toronto-based VPN provider Psiphon plans to leave Canada if Bill C-22, a lawful-access bill requiring ISPs to build surveillance capabilities for police and CSIS, passes in its current form, potentially harming privacy-preserving tools serving 20 million users worldwide.

An indie developer who built a geoguessing game locally using Google Street View and MapKit was permanently banned when AI customer service mistakenly flagged it as a "cyberattack". Their appeal was rejected within a minute by the AI, sparking debate over the black-box nature of big tech's AI-powered customer support.

推文讨论 Claude 封禁来自中国大陆的访问，指出封禁的真正触发点可能是其风控系统将用户误判为使用中国护照的中国大陆人士，而非仅凭 IP 地理位置。

The Trump administration's newly launched America.gov AI chatbot was reprogrammed within a day of its release to stop fact-checking false claims from the president, refusing instead to answer political questions. The changes gutted the tool's usefulness for answering questions about federal services and policy impacts.

A user complains that Muse, an AI image generation tool, is incorrectly blocking requests due to NSFW content detection, rendering it unusable for their intended color reference purposes.

A user reports that WeChat has silently censored a post on Moments by hiding it, expressing outrage at the censorship.

Meta has taken down a critical video about its AI Glasses after it was filmed at Meta, raising concerns over censorship and transparency regarding the product.

Obscura VPN is a privacy-focused VPN service designed to prevent activity logging by separating user identity and browsing history through a two-party protocol.

The article shares initial user impressions of Grok 4.7, an AI model, discussing frontend and backend work, comparisons to other models like 5.6 sol and fable 5.1, and raising questions about safeguards and censorship.

Meta banned ads for a Virginia Woolf play in Spain because the content related to feminism, highlighting issues with automatic content moderation systems on social media platforms.

Heretic is a free software tool that allows users to remove restrictions from language models, enabling greater control over AI systems.

Spain has ordered the blocking of Archive.today and its mirrors, accusing the service of facilitating illegal access to copyrighted content without requiring a court ruling.

The article critiques the emergence of 'Trust & Safety 2.0' in AI companies, where NGOs and Effective Altruism advocates are embedded to control discourse, drawing parallels to past social media censorship.

European lawmakers are calling for an investigation into Meta after its copyright system was allegedly weaponized to suppress accounts posting about anti-government protests in Albania, raising concerns about censorship and compliance with the EU's Digital Services Act.

HuggingFace has started censoring content, with disabled messages on certain posts, leading to discussions on Reddit about the context and specificity of these actions.

Elon Musk shares a post quoting Michael Shellenberger, suggesting that lifting censorship on Twitter has led to social and political changes, including the success of the AfD party in Germany.

The post argues that militant political groups pose a threat to free speech on the internet by using tactics like doxxing on platforms such as Telegram to silence dissent and control narratives.

The article recounts the history of Italian hacker collective Autistici/Inventati and their recent designation as a terrorist organization by the US, highlighting the threat to their communication infrastructure and digital rights.