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Investigation reveals that Russian TMCT internet censorship systems are generating blocking pages with Chinese characters, indicating the equipment is supplied by China Unicom.
South Korea will mandate that online forums use AI tools to scan every image for censorship, marking a significant expansion of automated content moderation.
A new documentary 'TikTok Never Dies' premiering at Tribeca Film Festival chronicles the six-year legal saga around banning TikTok in the US, following three creators caught up in the lawsuit. The article argues the TikTok ban was ultimately more about American politics and US-China trade tensions than about TikTok itself.
The Minimax M3 model appears to have no political censorship, standing out among Chinese LLMs in a bias benchmark.
The article argues that overly safe and censored AI models hinder creative exploration, while open models offer more freedom for experimentation.
The article discusses the US-Iran conflict, focusing on Iran's internet blackout and the challenges of getting information out of the country, featuring an interview with former Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian.
The article argues that AI is becoming the new epistemic infrastructure controlled by a handful of private individuals and corporations, with opaque authority and lack of democratic accountability, potentially leading to mass hallucination and blind reliance.
David Sacks warns that government control over AI development could lead to censorship and surveillance, referencing Orwell's 1984 and the ancient question of who guards the guardians.
A Texas woman was arrested on a felony charge for a Facebook post reporting alleged hospitalizations from bacteria in the town's water, despite the city later issuing a boil water notice. She has filed a federal lawsuit claiming political retaliation.
A user criticizes the OpenClaw community for banning mentions of alternative AI agents, arguing it stifles free speech and hides legitimate concerns about OpenClaw's development.
A new VPN called MasterDnsVPN hides all traffic inside DNS queries on port 53, making it extremely difficult for firewalls to block without disrupting the internet. It is designed for restrictive networks and censorship-heavy environments.
The Heretic LLM de-censorship project received a legal notice from Meta, leading to the removal of derivative Llama models; the project has since moved to a Codeberg mirror and plans technological measures to preserve access.
Meta served a legal notice to the Heretic Project over derivatives of its Llama AI models, prompting the project to remove the weights and announce plans to diversify infrastructure with an official Codeberg mirror.
Larry Bushart, who was jailed for posting a Trump meme, wins an $835,000 settlement from the sheriff who arrested him in retaliation for protected speech.
Meta has restricted Facebook and Instagram accounts of human rights groups and activists in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, complying with government requests under local cybercrime laws. Critics condemn the move as arbitrary censorship that violates freedom of expression and access to information.
The Take It Down Act, signed by President Trump, requires social media platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate imagery including deepfakes within 48 hours or face fines, but experts warn it may facilitate censorship and do little to help victims.
This mechanistic interpretability study of Qwen 3.5 uncovers the specific circuit responsible for political censorship, demonstrating how it can be identified, analyzed, and even turned off by steering internal directions. The findings reveal that the model's factual knowledge remains intact, with censorship behavior layered on top.
Discusses the irony that small creators are penalized for using AI while big companies use AI to ban them.
Meta permanently disabled the Instagram account of journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, which had over 1 million followers, following a request from Kuwait after his arrest and acquittal.
Discussion about Trump's team using US phone number data roaming to directly access the internet, but not when connected to Wi-Fi.