The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2020

According to a report from The Guardian , the company has removed a Facebook group with more than 1 million members after it was threatened by the Thai government for violating local laws around defaming the ruling monarch. Thailand has laws against criticizing its monarch punishable with up to 15 years in prison, The Guardian reports.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi (Children without Borders) in Japan is a humanitarian educational association NGO that supports disadvantaged children and youth in Asia who are on the street, are victims of trafficking, forced labor, and natural disasters, or in conflict with the law. Their great website is available in Japanese, English, and French.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Signatories include Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, Witness, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which partners with Facebook to flag hate group accounts. In August, Das filed a criminal complaint against a local journalist after a Wall Street Journal report.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Not even Signal itself can see their messages — much less law enforcement or national security agencies. Like almost all apps, its terms of service state that the product cannot be used to violate the law. Encrypted messaging has been a boon to activists, dissidents, journalists, and marginalized groups around the world.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Careless People made waves on publication, thanks to Wynn-Williams' filing a whistleblower complaint with the SEC, her accounts of sexual assault (which Meta denies), and a portrait that makes founder Mark Zuckerberg look like a clueless cult leader. She preps Zuckerberg for meetings with foreign leaders, which he hates. Back in the U.S.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Josh Hawley (R-MO), scurried to stroke the president’s ego with deceitful interpretations of law and threats to sue Twitter. As my colleague Casey Newton wrote in 2018, it took a genocide in Myanmar for Facebook to realize that some speech is so hateful it can’t be kept up just because it’s newsworthy.

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