Thiruvananthapuram : , Nov 12, 2018: A social media expert who launched Freebits.app, a decentralised, blockchain-powered social network platform, has stated that there is an international social media censorship crisis.
Thiruvananthapuram (12 Nov 2012,IANS) Thiruvananthapuram: An expert in social media, Freebits.app – a new blockchain-powered, decentralised social network platform.
He said that the global social media censorship crisis is real.Speaking at an international seminar here on Friday, Shiva Kintali, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, said social media platforms controlled by technology companies are becoming spaces of censorship and control.
Shiva Kintali (alumnus from IIT Kharagpur) spoke at an international seminar.He stated that social media platforms managed by tech companies have become spaces for censorship.
Shiva Kintali, a graduate of IIT Kharagpur said that the technology companies control social media sites and are imposing censorship on them.
“There is a social media censorship crisis across the world.
There is an international social media censorship crisis.The world is facing a crisis in social media censorship.
Journalists, politicians, global leaders, creators and even satire accounts are getting de-platformed.Global leaders, journalists, and creators are being de-platformed.
Reporters, political leaders, creators, and even satire account owners are all being removed from social media.A couple of technology companies are controlling the global social media communications and censoring, shadow banning and de-platforming opinions without any transparency,” said Kintali.Kintali stated that a few technology companies control the social media networks worldwide and are censoring, shadow banning, and de-platforming opinions with no transparency.”Kintali said that two technology companies have taken control of global social media communications.They are deplatforming opinion without transparency and shadow banning them.
He said that democracy is impossible without freedom of speech, cross-pollination of ideas and a common understanding of what is true and what is false.
He stated that democracies are impossible without free speech and cross-pollination.He believed that democracy was impossible without freedom to speak, inter-pollination and an understanding of truth and falsehood.
“Freebits is a new social networking platform built on blockchain technologies and is a radically new kind of social media, which has built-in support for decentralised identity, Metaverse integration, AI-powered news aggregation, tamper proof photos, videos, credentials and many more,” added Kintali, who before launching his own business, was a faculty in the Computer Science department, Princeton University.Kintali was previously a professor at Princeton University’s Computer Science department before starting his business.
Kintali said that Freebits, a social network platform built on blockchain technology, is a radical new type of social media.He was an instructor in Princeton University’s Computer Science Department before setting up his own company.
The event titled ‘International Conference on Social Media and Developing Societies’ was organised by the Media Studies Department of Christ Nagar College, in association with two other organisations based outside India.In association with two organizations based in India, the Media Studies Department at Christ Nagar College organized the event titled “International Conference on Social Media and Developing Societies”.
The International Conference on Social Media and Developing Societies was organized by Christ Nagar College’s Media Studies Department in collaboration with two organisations based out of India.
Manju Rose Mathews, the head of media studies and organiser of the conference, said the social media in the pandemic and post-pandemic age has diverse issues to be studied by researchers.
Manju Rose Mathews (head of media studies, organiser of conference) said that social media during and after pandemics has many issues for researchers.Manju Rose Matthews, head of media research and the organiser, stated that researchers should study a variety of issues related to social media and the post-pandemic era #crisis #censorship #Expert
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