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Virgin Media's UK operations are ultimately controlled by a US Delaware organisation named Virgin Media (UK) Group Inc.[98] Interested stakeholders cannot confirm who actually owns and controls Virgin Media due to Delaware company law not requiring disclosure of controlling ownership in annual reports made to the state.[99]. The company named Virgin Media (UK) Group LLC was closed and dissolved in 2016. [100]See also: £7.5 billion bailout needed by UK airlines, carriers throughout EU & US to appeal for aid
The majority of top public colleges and universities use a blacklist of secret words, created by Facebook, to automatically censor comments on university social media pages, according to a new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. As campuses sit empty and much of student life moves online, this censorship has an amplified importance.
- Colleges block over 1,800 unique terms on their social media pages
- Secret filters automatically remove comments mentioning political figures, corporate partners, sports teams, faculty members, and even an emoji
- 87% of colleges block users on Facebook or Twitter
- Administrators abuse social platform tools to quietly censor posts and users — transforming their pages from public forums into vehicles for positive publicity
Comment: And again: We need more of these conversations, now; everyone needs to be thinking through and discussing what's occurring with those open enough to consider the dire implications of authoritarianism gone wild.