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Big Tech
Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers
20h ago — Google may block you from watching YouTube videos if you have an ad blocker installed on your Windows PC or mobile device.
Windows Central
Big Tech
WhatsApp ads are here – and privacy experts are worried
20h ago — Privacy experts are raising concerns over Meta's decision to bring ads to WhatsAppOn Monday, June 16, 2025, WhatsApp announced new ad features are set to land in the Updates tabIn 2023, Meta denied claims that WhatsApp was planning to add in-feed ads on the platform After years of rumors, worries, and denials, it's finally happened – WhatsApp is officially getting ads.
TechRadar
Free Speech
What free speech rights do government employees have?
20h ago — Does the First Amendment protect public employees when they speak? It depends.
FIRE
Cancelled
Roseanne reconsidered?
20h ago — Roseanne Barr is a comedian, actress, and one of the more notable victims of cancel culture. Back in 2018, she was enjoying a popular resurgence after a
Reason
Banned
The Taliban has banned a lot of things ... but chess?
20h ago — Even watching it — is forbidden." "In short," Hassanzadeh said in a telephone interview, "this healthy and harmless entertainment was snatched away from us." The Taliban's ban on playing chess in public was reported in May by local and international media, but it appeared that it had begun long before, implemented in stops and starts.
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Free Speech
In Quran burning conviction, UK judge uses violence against defendant as evidence of his guilt
20h ago — UK judge cites violence against Quran-burning protester as proof of his guilt, Brazil sentences comedian to over eight years for telling jokes, and France targets porn.
FIRE
Suppressed
Leak exposes data on applicants to Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025
21h ago — A leaked database exposes over 13,000 submissions to an application form for the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 initiative.
Straight Arrow News
Suppressed
FBI suspected a Chinese plot to hijack 2020 election for Joe Biden. Read the long-hidden intel memo
20h ago — Read the long-hidden intel memo The tens of thousands of fraudulent ID were made for fraudulent mail-in votes FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE FBI-SJC-IIR-000002 COUNTRY OR NON-STATE ENTITY: United States; China SUBJECT: Chinese Government Production and Export of Fraudulent US Driver's Licenses to Chinese Sympathizers in the United States, in Order to Create Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Mail-in Votes for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, in late August 2020 DATE OF INFORMATION: 00 AUG 2020 SUMMARY: None. SOURCE: A collaborative source with indirect access, none of whose reporting has been corroborated for less than one year. CONTEXT: The source obtained the information from an identified sub-source, who claimed they obtained the information from unidentified PRC government officials. WARNING: This is an information report, not finally evaluated intelligence.
Just The News
Banned
MAHA: General Mills to Eliminate Artificial Colors From U.S. Cereals, School Foods by 2026 – [your]NEWS
Yesterday — Company commits to full phase-out of synthetic dyes as federal health reforms target food additives.
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Banned
Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Child Sex-Change Procedures – [your]NEWS
Yesterday — In 6-3 ruling, justices say state law does not violate Equal Protection Clause, leaving policy to voters and lawmakers.
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