Once again, Elon Musk has shown that his approach to free speech is actually based on selective logic and opportunism, as opposed to upholding the core principle as he claims. Over the past few weeks, Elon has been making a big show of his decision to take a stand against the Australian eSafety Commission, which [...]read moreX Continues To Oppose Australian Regulators on Censorship
Once again, Elon Musk has shown that his approach to “free speech” is actually based on selective logic, and opportunism, as opposed to upholding the core principle as he claims. Over the past few weeks, Elon has been making a big show of his decision to take a stand against the Australian eSafety Commission, which [...]read moreX Continues to Oppose Australian Regulators on Censorship
Image: Shift Up / Sony, Atlus, Kotaku / SB Arts Media (Shutterstock), Fellow Traveller, HoYoverse, Don’t Nod Entertainment, Bethesda Softworks, Screenshot: Paramount / Kotaku This week, debates raged about supposed censorship in Stellar Blade. We also took a look at the upcoming game from the makers of Life Is Strange, remembered how the first trailer [...]read moreThe Stellar Blade ‘Censorship’ Row And More Gaming Opinions
Stellar Blade is a PlayStation 5 sci-fi action exclusive about fighting monsters and saving humanity in a stylish post-apocalyptic world. So why are thousands of its self-identified fans signing a petition to “Free Stellar Blade” from censorship? The answer is surprisingly complicated and kind of sad. Blade’s Book Club Is The Best Thing About Marvel’s [...]read moreHow Stellar Blade ‘Censorship’ Became A Silly PS5 Controversy
After taking a stand against Brazilian authorities over requests to censor X (formerly Twitter) users, Elon Musk and X Corp. have now agreed to comply with the demands, in the face of growing fines, and a potential ban of the app in the region. Earlier this month, X announced that the Brazilian authorities had issued [...]read moreX Will Comply With Brazilian Censorship Demands After Opposing a Court Order
After taking a stand against Brazilian authorities over requests to censor X (formerly Twitter) users, Elon Musk and X Corp. have now agreed to comply with the demands, in the face of growing fines, and a potential ban of the app in the region. Earlier this month, X announced that the Brazilian authorities had issued [...]read moreX Will Comply with Brazilian Censorship Demands After Initially Opposing a Court Order
Last month on the BBC’s flagship news programme, Newsnight, author and journalist Howard Eric Jacobson complained that Britain’s public broadcaster had been showing too many images of Palestinian suffering in Gaza. He added that in televising Palestinian suffering in this way, BBC was “taking a side” and that while it was “agonising to see what [...]read moreCensorship is a crucial complement of genocide | Israel War on Gaza