As Chinese police step up efforts to crack down on illegal economic activities, crypto over-the-counter (OTC) traders are being detained to assist investigations. In another sign Chinese law enforcement are targeting cryptocurrency trading, Zhao Dong – a prominent Chinese crypto OTC trader and the co-founder of crypto lending platform RenrenBit […]
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The UK watchdog said that Google had limited rival search engine companies from accessing consumers and could potentially block the world’s third-largest smartphone manufacturer from improving its own services. A deal struck between US tech giants Alphabet Inc and Apple Inc to switch default search engines to Google on Safari […]
YouTube intellectual Stefan Molyneux has seen his channel of 14 years and thousands of videos deleted, with the platform citing “hate speech” as a number of online venues take aim at conservative and right-wing personalities. Molyneux – the host of Freedomain Radio, billed as “the world’s number one philosophy show” […]
Singapore authorities charged a 23-year-old woman with breaking the city-state’s ban on unlicensed bitcoin sales on Wednesday. The woman allegedly bought S$3,350 (about $2,400) in bitcoin in late February 2020 using funds the police say came from the proceeds of an online scam. The Straits Times identified the woman as […]
Police tear-gassed groups of youths on the streets of Nantes, some of whom were attending the ‘Fete de la Musique’ event, while others were demonstrating on the first anniversary of the death of Steve Canico in a police crackdown. Eyewitness footage from the scene shows large crowds sprinting away from […]
As President Trump continues to try and drum up support for his call for states to “dominate” protesters and beef up police presence against them, Attorney General Bill Barr and a team of senior Justice Department officials have quietly taken the lead on disrupting the protests and going after the […]