July 27, 2021 The ‘Apple Pay is a monopoly’ soap opera continues ZDNet reports Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services hearings that are focused on, yet again, forcing Apple to ‘open up’ their NFC chip. Actually they should be talking about the secure element in Apple Silicon […]
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On The Media
Tim has been on a roll recently. Not that Tim, the other Tim. Tim Pool. When YouTube and Twitter started purging ‘conservative’ Japanese content that wasn’t breaking any content rules, following what YouTube and Twitter were already doing in America, Tim Pool was the only online journalist reporting it. I […]
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Twitter Follows YouTube Purge of Conservative Japanese Commentators
First YouTube and now Twitter is freezing mainstream conservative commentators. Kazuya’s bogus YouTube purge for ‘spam’ a few days ago, now reinstated after a overwhelming response from online Japanese across the political spectrum, has been followed by Twitter freezing his account. Two attacks this close together is not coincidence. I smell […]
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YouTube Purge Hits Conservative Japanese Channels
The YouTube purge of conservative and right-wing channels as described by Tim Pool earlier this year has hit Japan hard recently with many high-profile and popular channels such as Tsuneyasu Takeda and Kazuya taken down for vague YouTube community violations, spam mostly. This is not fringe but mainstream commentators who […]