A proposed law in the United Kingdom (U.K.) would reportedly regulate social media like a “hazard industry,” with new methods of censorship. Free speech advocates should be concerned.
Censorship
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October 28, 2021
“Who is going to be the unbiased arbiter of truth? I don’t think it exists,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said, challenging the leftist narrative pushing for greater censorship of online speech.
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October 27, 2021
It’s not the first time a Big Tech executive bragged about censoring speech online, and it likely won’t be the last. A YouTube executive testified at a Senate hearing yesterday that the platform had removed more than one million videos for so-…
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October 27, 2021
It’s Episode Nine of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about the newest trend for sporting events, bumper stickers, T-Shirts, and songs, “Let’s Go Brandon,” and how Big Tech is exhausting all efforts to silence the…
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October 27, 2021
Facebook’s algorithms and tools reportedly unfairly limited conservative news sites and personalities. Facebook employees also reportedly exerted continual pressure on their company to censor more. But Congressmen have had enough and spoke out…
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October 26, 2021
The U.S. Senate hearing on SnapChat, TikTok, and YouTube today made one thing very clear: TikTok does not appear to want to give straight answers about its connection to China. But U.S. Senators took the Big Tech platform to the mat.
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October 22, 2021
Wisconsin Republicans are backing state bills to allow censored social media users to sue platforms for damages, in an attempt to target online censorship.
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October 22, 2021
One of the most notorious liberal billionaire mega-donors in the United States is reportedly aiding Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who advocated for more Big Tech censorship.
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October 22, 2021
Twitter’s bout with free speech online continues. The platform censored U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for stating in a tweet that transgender admiral Dr. Rachel Levine was not “the first female anything” but a “dude who lived…
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October 20, 2021
Twitter Vice President of Trust and Safety Del Harvey has announced she is leaving the company. Harvey has been praised for making Twitter safe, but in fact she left a legacy of biased censorship. Harvey announced via tweet thread that she was…
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October 20, 2021
The Media Research Center’s newest video series CensorTrack with TR dives into cases of online censorship every Wednesday. This week, the very show itself was a victim of censorship. On September 30, episode five was released. It covered multiple…
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October 19, 2021
“This is terrifying for the United States of America,” said comedian Steven Crowder after he was censored by YouTube for a Louder with Crowder episode highlighting recent reports of “transgender” rape threat to women. YouTube issued the strike…
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October 15, 2021
Apparently Twitter’s guidelines about violence only apply to Donald Trump, not communist Chinese state-controlled news outlets. The Global Times threatened Taiwan and potential allies with becoming “cannon fodder” on Twitter, and Twitter has not…
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October 14, 2021
Twitter has published a list of suggestions for policy makers on how best to regulate Big Tech. But the platform has a history of extreme bias. At least one of Twitter’s suggestions also sounds suspiciously like, “We need more censorship.”
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October 13, 2021
It’s Episode Seven of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about the Free Speech America study which reported that Big Tech censors GOP congressmen by 54 to 1 more than Democrats.
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October 13, 2021
Exclusive: Google, the next Ministry of Truth, is rewriting history. Google’s “About” section is meant to explain at a glance the most relevant facts about a person. Unless it’s former President Donald Trump. His “About” section contains no…
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October 12, 2021
So much for free speech online. “Big Tech hates America and free speech. It’s death by 1 billion cuts. We’re not going to let them get away with it,” Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell said in a tweet.
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October 11, 2021
One America News’s Justine Murray blasted Facebook and “Tzar Zuckerberg” for censoring conservative free speech while allowing sexual exploiters to use and abuse Facebook and its users.
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October 8, 2021
The atmosphere for content creators with Google just reached a new freezing point. YouTube and parent company Google reportedly plan to demonetize all content from so-called “climate deniers.”
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October 7, 2021
Big Tech just can’t seem to get off the censorship train — especially when it comes to content that runs counter to the left’s accepted narrative. “You know, tyrants don’t like [satire]. It’s the thing that they hate more than anything else,”…
