Malaysia blocks access to Grindr's and Blued's websites and says it may engage with Google and Apple to curb the LGBTQ dating apps in the Muslim-majority nation
Malaysia has blocked access to LGBTQ+ networking and dating sites Grindr and Blued, with authorities reviewing legal measures …
Apple removes two of China's most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in the country, citing a Cyberspace Administration of China order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China's marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
How neo-Nazi influencers on Telegram formed the Terrorgram Collective and a network of chats and channels, targeted a teen in Slovakia, and groomed him to kill
www.propublica.org/article/tele... Mastodon: @vruz@mstdn.social : If ProPublica were able to investigate this, what are the chances that the CIA and the FBI couldn't investigate it themselves before t...
Sources: many of Meta's employees are furious about its moderation changes allowing “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation”
See Substack as another illustration [embedded post] Olivier Simard-Casanova / @o.simardcasanova.net : While I don't dispute that there's a contingent of fascists in the Silicon Valley, Meta is so big...
Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tim Gill, who founded the publishing software company Quark before becoming an influential LGBTQ+ activist
“He has helped lead the fight against HIV-AIDS, laid the groundwork for marriage equality and so much more”
The US Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act by a vote of 91 to 3; the bills now head to the House
It's Our Last Chance To Stop It Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post : Senate passes landmark bills to protect kids online, raising pressure on House Maya C. Miller / New York Times : Senate Passes...
Telegram, used by half of Russia's 140M residents, has become a refuge for LGBTQ+ citizens, who routinely create new channels to avoid government surveillance
Sassafras Lowrey / Wired : X: @fredpagesf X: Fred Page / @fredpagesf : Life for LGBTQ+ Russians is harrowing. Over the past decade, building on anti-"gay propaganda" laws, President Vladimir Putin ha...
How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books
https://www.techdirt.com/... Kevin Carson / @KevinCarson1@kolektiva.social : Copyright Nazis strike again: — If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at t...
Duolingo deletes LGBTQ+ references in Russia after being warned by the country's communications regulator that the content is classed as “extremism”
UK-based users sue Grindr in the UK, alleging the app shared personal data, including HIV status, with ad companies like Localytics between 2018 to 2020
- LGBTQ+ dating app accused of breaking data protection laws — Grindr was previously fined $6 million in Norway over breaches