Big Tech platforms X and Telegram are the latest targets of anti-free speech campaigns by governments consumed with making George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 a reality.
After owner Elon Musk and X executives declared for weeks…
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September 20, 2024
A group of Republican lawmakers are calling on the U.S. State Department to take a decisive stand against Brazil’s campaign to crush free speech online.
Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and three other…
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September 16, 2024
The Brazilian Supreme Court, as part of its war against free speech, has reportedly punished another of Elon Musk’s companies for his refusal to censor more on X.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes has been in a power struggle with X that…
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August 19, 2024
Elon Musk’s X platform shut down its office in Brazil as the government attempted to coerce censorship.
Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and Musk had spent months battling over online free speech, with Musk refusing the…
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April 9, 2024
Tech mogul Elon Musk issued a warning to a powerful Brazilian justice amid an escalating free speech clash between the X platform and the left-wing Brazilian government.
The conflict intensified after a recent installment of the Twitter…
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September 9, 2021
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro made a bold move, marking one up for free speech in his nation. The embattled president signed a provisional measure that will make it illegal for Big Tech to arbitrarily remove legal social media content.
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August 28, 2019
Yes, there are fires burning in the Amazon and that’s obviously a bad thing, but one Forbes columnist chided movie stars, politicians and the news media for spreading misinformation about them.
Contributor Michael Shellenberger, who…
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April 18, 2019
Chevron’s winning streak in the courtroom against Ecuador over pollution remediation continued in April. So did the liberal media’s silence on the battle.
ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows ignored the story that night. Major…
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September 20, 2017
The liberal media went above and beyond to denigrate President Donald Trump’s Sept. 19, speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
One Newsweek headline proclaimed, “Trump Was Laughed At By World Leaders For Dissing…
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August 11, 2016
Oil giant Chevron won in court again as a federal appellate court recently upheld a 2014 ruling blocking enforcement of an $8.65 billion claim against the oil company. But just as they did in 2014, the broadcast evening news shows…
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