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Sometimes there are so many collisions between the big tech platforms and our democracy in a week that I barely know where to begin. Other times, one platform so thoroughly dominates the discussion that there’s hardly anything else to talk about. The past couple weeks have been the latter kind. And the company sucking up…

AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein; YouTube PewDiePie, the most popular solo YouTuber in the world, recently said he has been “banned from China” after he posted a video featuring memes related to China and its president. In the video, PewDiePie drew similarities between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Winnie the Pooh, a comparison made by many pro-democracy…

Skip to content The king of blackface will get to decide what is considered “hate speech.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mandate social media companies to censor “online hate and disinformation” if he wins re-election.That’s right, the world’s number 1 blackface enthusiast will decide what constitutes “harmful” content.Trudeau’s Liberal Party responded to the following…

Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is the world’s largest independent YouTube channel — but if you live in China, you can no longer enjoy the Swedish star’s content. Following a series of jokes referencing the Hong Kong protests, the PewDiePie channel now appears to be censored. The YouTuber announced his blacklisting in a recent video, where he…