Free Speech

Kayla Sargent | June 25, 2021

The House Judiciary Committee passed six antitrust bills aimed at Big Tech in a two-day marathon markup. The markup left some conservatives leery of the power that platforms may still hold over users. However, a new Senate bill could help to…

Kayla Sargent | June 24, 2021

Republicans and Democrats have largely agreed that Big Tech has too much power. Yet, despite some agreement, the debate has raged on as Congress tries to determine how to hold companies like Facebook, Amazon and Google accountable.

The…

Alexander Hall | June 24, 2021

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows warned that conservatives should be skeptical of a Democrat-led effort to shape how Big Tech impacts the United States.  

Alexander Hall | June 23, 2021

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) torched fellow politicians for denying that Big Tech needs an antitrust reckoning, especially those Republicans who are taking money from Big Tech.

Alec Schemmel | June 23, 2021

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn bowed to China once again when it reportedly censored the profile of a Swedish writer to appease the Chinese Communist Party. LinkedIn is reportedly the only major Western social media company that operates freely in…

Alexander Hall | June 23, 2021

Big Tech platforms like Twitter were once characterized by free content. Now the platform is working toward releasing Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces as the internet shifts toward paid access to influencers.

 

Kayla Sargent | June 23, 2021

From Planned Parenthood to Satanism, AmazonSmile encourages shoppers to donate to some extreme charities — at least 216 different groups. But multiple prominent conservative groups aren’t even allowed to participate.

Amazon, which is on…

Kayla Sargent | June 22, 2021

Big Tech bias is not limited to Facebook, Google and Twitter. The ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee has decided to call out Microsoft for its censorship of conservative voices. 

 

Alexander Hall | June 22, 2021

Censorious tech activist and former Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao proclaimed the success of deplatforming across Big Tech platforms to obliterate so-called “hate” from the internet.

Alexander Hall | June 21, 2021

Game developer Scott Cawthon created one of the most famous survival horror video games. Now he is reportedly being harassed for donating to politicians the radical left doesn’t approve of.

Kayla Sargent | June 21, 2021

YouTube has reportedly struck down yet another video of a school board meeting for violating its policies on misinformation. The platform reportedly took down a video from the Shawnee Mission School Board in Kansas City, Kansas for “…

Gabriela Pariseau | June 21, 2021

Bret Weinstein, host of the DarkHorse Podcast, told MRC Free Speech America that “[S]omething has gone wrong inside of these tech platforms and it is putting us all in jeopardy.”

Autumn Johnson | June 20, 2021

Former Congressman Denver Riggleman and Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, argue that hate speech “precedent” should be used to ban extremism online.

Autumn Johnson | June 20, 2021

Twitter continues to allow users to spread the false narrative that Saturday night’s Pride parade car crash in Florida was an assassination attempt on Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

 

Autumn Johnson | June 18, 2021

Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, was inexplicably suspended from Twitter on Friday.

 

Autumn Johnson | June 18, 2021

A book review discussing the irreversible damage of gender dysphoria in children was removed after backlash.

 

Kayla Sargent | June 18, 2021

Facebook appears to have finally developed a sense of humor after its history of fact-checking and targeting satire sites like The Babylon Bee. The platform announced that it has developed a satire exception to its censorship practices in…

Craig Bannister | June 18, 2021

On Thursday, a coalition of 26 conservative organizations and activists released a letter to Congress, warning that antitrust bills targeting Big Tech platforms being pushed by Democrats “would give unelected Biden bureaucrats sweeping new power…

Kayla Sargent | June 17, 2021

Facebook’s censorship practices have evolved once again. The platform has decided to now extend its power to administrators of Facebook groups. 

The platform said in a blog post that it has developed new tools to “empower community…

Alexander Hall | June 17, 2021

First liberal corporations attacked conservative speech, but now they are destabilizing the finances of those they disagree with, as former Senate candidate Lauren Witzke has reportedly discovered.