Neowin News Feed for: Protests

Tesla Faces Dual Crisis: Plummeting sales, owner backlash amid Musk's controversial politics

Fiza Ali — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:58:02 +0000

Elon Musk's recent controversial behaviour may be turning customers away and costing the brand, as Tesla faces declining sales and growing owner protests over fascist salute. Read more...

Nine Google workers get arrested after sit-in protest over $1.2B cloud deal with Israel

Omer Dursun — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:42:01 +0000

Google employees were arrested after a sit-in protesting cloud deals with Israel. Workers occupied offices to oppose Project Nimbus, voicing concerns that the technology could enable surveillance. Read more...

Reddit to go dark on June 12, subreddits protest against probable death of third-party apps

Aditya Tiwari — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:04:01 +0000

In an attempt to protest against Reddit's recent API pricing, various subreddits have joined hands for a digital protest. These subreddits will be going dark later this month for a period of 48 hours. Read more...

Foxconn offers protesting workers 10,000 yuan if they agree to quit and board buses

Fiza Ali — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:28:01 +0000

Foxconn has made an offer to its workers to leave the iPhone city following the protests that erupted at the Zhengzhou facility because of a notice informing them of a delay in payments. Read more...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk attempts to alleviate concerns at factory site after protests by locals

Usman Khan Lodhi — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 18:10:01 +0000

Elon Musk sought to alleviate the locals' water concerns relating to Tesla's plan to construct a factory in Germany, saying that the plant would use less water than the original expectation. Read more...

Bangladesh government blocks mobile internet after protests turn violent

Usama Jawad — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 16:16:01 +0000

Reports claim that the Bangladeshi government has blocked mobile internet in some regions after protests against the killing of two students in a road accident turned violent, with over 100 injured. Read more...

China blocks Instagram to stop spread of pro-democracy protest images

Jett Goldsmith — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:30:01 +0000

Mainland China has placed a nationwide block on popular photo sharing service Instagram, likely to prevent the spread of photos from Hong Kong's ongoing pro-Democracy protests. Read more...

German Internet activists' furor over a possible “serious breach of privacy”

Phi Ha — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 12:54:34 +0000

Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets of Germany after fears that it may become another "surveillance nation". German Chancellor Angela Merkel denied any involvement with the NSA. Read more...

ACTA protests take to the streets in Europe today

John Callaham — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:16:53 +0000

A large number of people are protesting in the streets all over Europe today, giving a real world voice against the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Read more...

Apple protesters to hold rally in New York Thursday

John Callaham — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:20:17 +0000

Protesters plan to hold a rally against Apple on Thursday at Apple's Grand Central Station store in New York City to protest alleged poor working conditions at factories that make Apple products. Read more...

Microsoft protests at digital signatures

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:27:13 +0000

Microsoft has filed legal papers in a California court requesting the rejection of all anti-trust settlement claims submitted with digital signatures. The software giant also requested that the court reject all such claims that have... Read more...