Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday said it will soon allow previously banned accounts to apply for reinstatement, rolling back a policy that had treated violations as permanent.The change applies to channels removed for posting Covid-19 or election-related misinformation, according to a letter from Alphabet lawyer Daniel Donovan to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. Previously those types of offenses carried lifetime bans."Today, YouTube's Community Guidelines allow for a wider range of content regardin ...

After ABC's decision last week to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air "indefinitely," he's coming back. On Monday, Disney, which owns ABC, said the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" host would return and the show would resume on Tuesday."Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive," the Walt Disney Company said in a st ...

文章核心观点 美国众议院司法委员会传唤Alphabet，索要其与拜登政府就内容审核政策的沟通信息，此前特朗普政府和国会共和党人曾针对科技巨头公司的内容审核政策，认为其压制保守派观点 [1][3] 具体事件 - 众议院司法委员会主席Jim Jordan要求Alphabet提供与拜登政府及政府外公司和团体就内容审核政策的沟通信息 [1] - 传票要求获取关于对特朗普、马斯克相关内容及新冠病毒、保守派讨论话题等内容限制或禁令的沟通信息 [2] 过往情况 - 去年Meta在Jordan所在小组审查下表示拜登政府曾施压其审查内容，今年1月该公司减少了内容审核 [4] 各方态度 - Jim Jordan称据其所知Alphabet未否认拜登-哈里斯政府审查言论的企图 [4][6] - Google发言人称公司将继续向委员会展示其独立执行政策，且致力于言论自由 [6]