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In response to the Online News Act, Meta (owner of Facebook) began blocking access to news sites for Canadian users at the beginning of August 2023. [15] [16] This also extended to local Canadian news stories about the wildfires, [17] a decision that was heavily criticized by Trudeau, local government officials, academics, researchers, and evacuees.
Facebook has been criticized for having lax enforcement of third-party copyrights for videos uploaded to the service. In 2015, some Facebook pages were accused of plagiarizing videos from YouTube users and re-posting them as their own content using Facebook's video platform, and in some cases, achieving higher levels of engagement and views than the original YouTube posts.
Facebook was blocked in Vietnam for two weeks in May 2016 due to protest of dissidents. [98] Vietnam Facebook users total about 52 million and is a vital tool for their day to day use. However, the government is not accountable to the people which causes abuse of censorship in Vietnam. [99]
In 2020 and 2023, the United States Government tried to ban social media app TikTok. The DATA Act would have banned the selling of non-public personal data to third party buyers. [ 75 ] The RESTRICT Act would allow the United States Secretary of State to review any attempt of a tech company to " sabotage " the United States.
The government requires Internet search firms and state media to censor issues deemed officially "sensitive," and blocks access to foreign websites including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. [82] According to a study in 2014, [ 83 ] censorship in China is used to muzzle those outside government who attempt to spur the creation of crowds for any ...
In August 2010, Flixster got to 20 million combined mobile app downloads and was ranked as the top movie app on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. [20] In April 2014, Flixster's app was updated with Chromecast support allowing users to "cast" movies to a Chromecast-connected device. [27] A streaming-only app, Flixster Video, was also released. [28]
A censor may be able to detect and block use of circumvention tools through deep packet inspection. [28] There are efforts to make circumvention tools less detectable by randomizing the traffic, attempting to mimic a whitelisted protocol or tunneling traffic through a whitelisted site by using techniques including domain fronting or Meek. [ 5 ]
In May 2010, when an account on Facebook promoted a competition to draw Muhammad, government officials took a more focused approach and sent a letter to Facebook urging closure of the account, asked all ISPs to limit access to the account's link, and invited the Indonesian Association of Internet Cafe Entrepreneurs to restrict access to the ...