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Financial Censorship After Capitol Riot ‘Truly Chilling,’ Says OCC Chief Brian Brooks
13.1.2021
“Money might be controlled by a handful of elites,” the departing bank regulator said at a Wednesday event. “Crypto is about freedom.”
Crypto leaders worry over threat from ‘big tech’ censorship
13.1.2021
Social media users are leaving traditional providers in droves in favor of more independent platforms over fears of unwarranted data collection, censorship, and refusal of service
Kim Dotcom Discusses the Swelling Crypto Economy and His Plans to ‘Accelerate P2P Electronic Cash’
13.1.2021
This week, news.Bitcoin.com chatted with Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now-defunct file hosting service Megaupload and the creator of the content monetization application called K.im. The Internet entrepreneur Dotcom is a big believer when it comes to the crypto economy and during...
Big Tech’s Freedom of Speech Purge Pushes People to Censorship-Resistant Blockchain Social Media
9.1.2021
During the last few days, the world has watched the Big Tech and social media crackdown after the incident that took place at Capitol Hill a few days ago. During the last 48 hours, U.S. President Donald Trump, a great number of right-wing supporters, and literally anyone who speaks out against...
Internet Shutdowns Cost India $2.8B in 2020: Report
8.1.2021
A 2020 report by Top10VPN found India to be the country that suffered the most economic damage from internet disruptions
Blockchain Developers Are Focused on the Wrong Problem
30.12.2020
If it's to reach its full potential, the decentralized economy needs to scale censorship resistance, say Solana's CEO and COO
Snowden and human rights advocates talk internet surveillance in the era of BLM
11.12.2020
Challenges to internet freedom are threats to grassroots protests, panelists agreed
In India, a Clash of Digital Innovation and Internet Censorship
25.11.2020
Among democracies, the Indian government tends to shut down the internet most frequently. Can crypto thrive in this environment?
A New Bitcoin Mining Pool Claims It Has Tools to Censor Blockchain Transactions
12.11.2020
A blockchain and technology company claims its new bitcoin mining pool is embedded with tools that enable the pool to censure transactions in the blocks they mine. According to a statement issued by the DMG, the parent company to Blockseer mining pool, this ability allows the latter...
‘Slippery slope’ as new Bitcoin mining pool censors transactions
12.11.2020
The launch of a new 'censored' mining pool has some Bitcoiners worried its a harbinger of things to come
Bitcoin Cash-Fueled Onchain Social Media Platform Memo Launches iOS App
6.11.2020
Two years ago, an onchain social network called memo.cash was launched and the application has developed quite a bit since then. On Tuesday, the Memo team revealed that the platform is now available for iOS phones via the App Store. Apple users can now connect to the social network that etches...
Partisan dunks eclipse Section 230 in Senate hearing on social media giants
28.10.2020
Though the hearing did not focus on solutions, open source looks like a real way of addressing the committee's concerns about transparency and accountability
This social media platform gives you the option to make your posts undeletable
28.10.2020
The CEO of Minds thinks that others will follow suit
Blockchain Bites: Filecoin Strike, Bitcoin Fees Fall, Coinbase Censorship
19.10.2020
Five Filecoin miners have gone on strike. Bitcoin miners are seeing depressed earnings. And Binance is closing its Jersey branch
NFT and crypto art can magnify the truth of our reality without censorship
11.10.2020
There are already enough signs to say that the crypto art market will pretty soon be shaped just like the traditional contemporary market
Belarus News Media Are Testing Decentralized Tech to Resist Censorship
2.10.2020
Belarus media are testing NewNode, a decentralized tech helping resist the government censorship
Crypto Exchange Binance Blacklisted by Russia’s Telecom Censorship Agency
26.9.2020
Russia’s telecom regulator Roskomnadzor has added Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, to the list of blacklisted websites in the country. The exchange was blacklisted on June 2, 2020, but Binance became aware of this only on September 24th, after receiving communication from...
Unstoppable Domain’s co-founder had this to say about Facebook and the future of free speech
19.9.2020
Can you imagine a world with 40 Facebooks competing for you?
How a Hacker Launched a Decentralized Network to Track Internet Censorship
15.9.2020
Using free and open-source software, the Open Observatory of Network Interference has built a “decentralized, citizen-led, internet censorship observatory.”
The Moss Piglet Dilemma: Paypal Bans Payments to Merchants Using the Word ‘Tardigrade’
14.9.2020
The popular payment provider Paypal has been known for cutting off a number of merchants and organizations over the years. This week, the public found out that Paypal has been censoring merchants that sell items related to the name “tardigrade” just because a Balkan arms dealer uses...