It’s pretty simple. People love Instagram. People love using hashtags. People love to curse. People love to curse in hashtags on Instagram. Instagram doesn’t like that. In fact, Instagram censors any sort of curse word hashtag, possibly porn related hashtag and so on from its searches. That’s a good thing! But Instagram also weirdly censors some pretty normal hashtags too.
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Because every company with even just a three-legged rat in the copyright race basically just shotgun sprays Google for takedown requests these days, Microsoft accidentally but very hilariously asked Google to censor… Microsoft.com. That’s got to be even worse than HBO giving Google a takedown request for VLC
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Apple’s iCloud has seen better days as it’s still experiencing issues from its early-morning outage, and now we’re hearing reports of iCloud emails and attachments being censored.
According to Macworld, Apple’s iCloud email service has been caught deleting emails that contain the phrase “barely legal teen.” Two test emails were sent using personal iCloud accounts, the first one having the worlds “He’s a barely legal teenage driver” while the second email changed the order to a “barely a legal teenage driver.” The second email was delivered without any problems, but the first email that used the “barely legal teen” phrase is yet to be delivered. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: iPhone 6 Rumor To Feature Polycarbonate Body, Conan O’Brien Tells Us What Everyone Uses Their iPads For,
India’s in the midst of a security crisis and has asked Twitter to curtail “inflammatory messages” or prepare to face legal action, according to the Times of India. The country has shut down numerous websites, while Google and Facebook have already pledged to remove any threatening content. Officials reportedly said that Twitter “failed to cooperate” in efforts to curb messages or help the government find their source, despite an earlier pledge by the social network to censor content when a country demanded it. Indian ISPs have started blocking the service’s accounts, according to TNW, but not Twitter itself, as the site first reported. In any case, the country still has a long way to go to catch the censorship leader.
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Twitter warned by Indian government to kibosh inflammatory tweets originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The French Supreme Court has handed down a ruling that Google must censor terms such as “torrent,” “RapidShare,” and other phrases that could be related to illegal file sharing. The decision was in response to a case brought by SNEP, a French music industry group, requesting that Google be forced to censor its results and be held accountable for facilitating piracy. The court ruled that the Mountain View company couldn’t be held responsible for people’s decision to click through to sites containing illegal material. But it reversed a lower court decision, demanding that related terms be removed from its autocomplete database to making finding such content more difficult. Google was understandably disappointed by the ruling, especially since the company already actively blocks some piracy related search terms. But, that apparently wasn’t enough for the SNEP. Check out the ruling itself at the more coverage link.
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French Supreme Court orders Google to censor piracy related terms in Instant search and Autocomplete originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Twitter dispatched its first biannual Transparency Report — revealing government requests for user info and content holdback along with DMCA takedown notices — which spotlights the US as the most active by far. The company claimed it was aroused to action by Google, which has been doing it for the last two years and recently added copyright takedowns to its own reports. So far, Twitter says that while most nations requested user data 10 times or fewer, the US government made 679 such appeals, more than the entire rest of the world combined. It also showed how often it obeyed — 75 percent of the time in the US; much less elsewhere — and said that affected users are always notified unless the company is prohibited from doing so. As we also noted with Google’s reports, DMCA takedowns were by far the most numerous requests, with 3,378 total affecting 5,874 users, and 599 offending items actually pulled (38 percent). Those appeals aren’t broken down by company like Mountain View’s, but if you think that Usher photo mashup you’re using as an avatar might be a problem, check the source to see all the data.
Twitter Transparency Report shows DMCA and government actions: US is biggest busybody originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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