Questions and answers
What the site is, where the stream comes from, and what the notes and dates are for.
The site
- What is this site for?
- It keeps a record of how social media is censored. The notes explain the mechanisms and the law, the dates list the meetings and deadlines that shape them, and the stream brings in the latest articles from the sources on the Sources page.
- Who writes the notes?
- The site's author. They are kept current and corrected when a fact changes. Nothing on the site is written at the moment you read it: every page is built in advance from the same data.
- Is anything about me recorded?
- No. The site sets no cookies and loads nothing from third parties. The Privacy page says what the hosting provider keeps.
- Is this site itself censored?
- No. Nothing is removed from the notes, and the stream shows the sources' own excerpts. Every source is listed on the Sources page.
The stream
- Where do the articles come from?
- From the sources listed on the Sources page. The site fetches their feeds a few times a day and shows a short excerpt of each new article with a link to the original. The excerpts are theirs and the rights remain with them.
- Why has an article disappeared?
- The stream shows what each source's feed currently lists, up to a fixed number of entries per source. When a source drops an article from its feed, it leaves this page too. Older articles stay as long as the source keeps them.