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Questionnaire for Technology Service Providers

This is a questionnaire Medium sends to third party service providers before we work with them to ensure their data collection, storage, and security practices are consistent…

AB 2880 — Kill (this) Bill

Fellow Californians, please join us in opposing AB 2880, which would allow and encourage California to extend…

Firewall With Me

Around April 10, we began hearing reports that Medium was blocked in China. The first evidence of a block involved WeChat. Over…

Medium’s 2015 Transparency Report

Here’s our second transparency report. It covers all takedown or information requests received in 2015, including government requests, and the actions we took in response.

Takedown Requests

Left to Our Own Devices

Medium co-filed an amicus brief yesterday supporting Apple in its refusal to create custom code for the FBI that would weaken iPhone security. This brief was a joint effort with 16 other Internet companies, including Automattic, Reddit, LinkedIn, Kickstarter, GitHub, and Twitter…

The Post Stays Up

Medium Users,

As some of you have noted, Medium’s now blocked in Malaysia.

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One of our goals at Medium is to treat our users better than anyone else. And a way we do this is by trying to make it actually clear (not just legally defensible) what we are doing with data and analytics.

Medium’s Commitment to Net Neutrality

Yesterday afternoon Medium co-filed an amicus brief in support of net neutrality at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. This brief is a joint effort with Automattic, Reddit, Squarespace, Yelp, and Twitter. We’re glad to be part of this group and proud of the brief…

Blocking and Tracking

Some Medium users have noticed that ad-blockers are blocking legit parts of Medium, such as our first-party analytics and icons. This is not good because they prevent you from making fullest use of the site (and at worst, new users might not realize what’s missing). To be clear, we don’t…

Gags on speech erode our users’ trust

Supporting Twitter’s suit against government restrictions on a company’s right to report the number of nat’l security requests it receives