YouTube to Remove White Supremacist and Neo-Nazi Videos

RACHEL LERMAN / The Associated Press Jun 5, 2019 The company toughens its policies to an outright ban on content from extremists and those who promote hoaxes like Holocaust deniers. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

NYT Puts Up a Paywall

Staff / Truthdig Mar 18, 2011 Let's try this again, shall we? The New York Times has experimented in the past with the idea of charging for content, and starting later this month the Grey Lady is launching a new pay-to-play plan and squirreling most of what's fit to print behind a firewall. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Newsday’s Paid Content Project Hits Major Glitch

Staff / Truthdig Jan 27, 2010 In the future, news junkies may be willing to pay a subscription fee to get their fix, but judging by what's happening over at Long Island's Newsday newspaper, that time has not come. According to The New York Observer, after three months, only 35 people had signed up to have full access to newsday.com for $260 a year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Murdoch, Microsoft May Team Up to Challenge Google

Staff / Truthdig Nov 24, 2009 Over the last decade, Google has ballooned into the many-headed online hydra we know it to be today, and despite grumblings about monopolies and a couple of legal tussles, the company's viselike grip has seemed assured for years to come However, News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch might be gearing up (continued) . Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.K. Cracking Down on Net Piracy

Staff / Truthdig Jul 25, 2008 The British government is planning to "significantly reduce" the country's online file-sharing of copyrighted content, by at least 50 percent, in the next three years through a sequence of warning letters, Internet account suspensions and ultimate expulsion from Internet access. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Coming Soon: Wikiversity

Staff / Truthdig Aug 4, 2006 The Wikimania conference is underway, and "mania" is just one word that's getting the wiki treatment. Consider these project announcements: "Wikiversity" and "Wikiwyg." More news on what's new in wiki via blogger Andy Carvin (via boingboing.net). Great story by Stacy Schiff in The New Yorker about the future of Wikipedia. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Supreme Court: Obscenity Still in Eye of Beholder

Staff / Truthdig Mar 24, 2006 The Supreme Court has decided to leave it up to individual communities to decide whether something constitutes pornography. But in the borderless Internet age, what really constitutes a community? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Panic in the Newspaper Biz

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Mar 23, 2006 "I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying -- it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )