While YouTube has been panicking over one offended LGBT reporter, the platform’s overreaction has both sides outraged.
YouTube announced a crackdown on Wednesday June 5 on videos promoting or glorifying racism and…
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June 10, 2019
Democrats are threatening to regulate Big Tech. But they’re saying it while their pockets are stuffed with donations from these companies.
The House Judiciary Committee announced it was having a hearing concerning “Online…
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June 7, 2019
As Facebook drowns in privacy scandals censorship, investigations, conservatives are being urged to avoid working with the platform.
Wall Street Journal’s columnist Peggy Noonan wrote that Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg were…
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June 7, 2019
As YouTube cuts off the ability of conservatives like comedian Steven Crowder and free speech advocates to support themselves on YouTube, it has allowed massive Russian disinformation to thrive.
In the wake of revelations about…
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June 6, 2019
If you thought Big Government was the main threat to your free speech and gun rights, think again. Big Tech has come for both in recent weeks.
As The Washington Post reported in a May 30 article, Salesforce has rolled out a new…
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June 6, 2019
One Vox contributor managed to help demonetize dozens of YouTube accounts by complaining that he was being harassed by conservative comedian Steven Crowder.
Vox Media’s Carlos Maza, an activist and writer known for spewing hatred at…
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June 6, 2019
The liberal media would have readers believe that they are the most persecuted minority and should be protected as such. YouTube seems to agree with them.
Carlos Maza, a contributor the left-wing site Vox, caused an uproar on liberal…
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June 5, 2019
An incident where a Facebook employee gave private info to a predatory journalist has free speech advocates up in arms.
“Do we want to be on platforms that are just waiting to release our private information to places of…
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June 5, 2019
The media loves to claim how much Russia influenced the right on social media during the 2016 election.
A new study contradicts that narrative, however. The software company Symantec released a May 5 report that took a closer look at the…
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June 5, 2019
Wikipedia is already banned in China. So why is the site kowtowing to Chinese propaganda on an entry?
The crowdsourced platform locked the post for the Chinese Tiananmen Square Massacre, after changing the title to the milder Tiananmen…
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June 4, 2019
While the United States is blasting Big Tech for censoring conservative speech, the European Union is mulling a similar crackdown on “offensive content.”
Europe has been putting pressure on tech companies for a variety of…
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June 4, 2019
YouTube relies on its algorithms to do many things, including taking down, censoring, and restricting content. But if the algorithm enables pedophiles, then it is also terrifyingly dangerous..
According to a report released by The New…
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June 3, 2019
When it rains, it pours. Big Tech companies have lost more than $140 billion in market value as the Justice Department and Federal trade Commission announced impending investigations.
The two arms of government are preparing antitrust…
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June 3, 2019
A tech company has made a disturbing statement during the left-centric “Pride Month.”
For Snapchat, the LGBTQ might also include pedophiles. In the campaign for “Love Has No Labels” held by Snapchat, one of the…
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May 31, 2019
Conservatives have been booted for tweeting “learn to code,” meanwhile a liberal calling for violence against conservatives has gotten a free pass.
Far Left Watch claimed that Steven Bonnell, better known as Destiny, “…
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May 31, 2019
Tech companies have been strangely silent on the subject of Chinese censorship. But one reason for their silence might be the millions Chinese companies have invested in these platforms.
In a May 30 podcast with the Harvard Business…
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May 31, 2019
For liberal Twitter, “hateful conduct” can be any joke that makes conservatives smile.
Radio host and blogger Erick Erickson was suspended on May 31 for cracking a joke about Democratic presidential candidate and Senator…
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May 31, 2019
The tech industry is slowly circling conservative media and preparing to strike.
An advertising program manager for Microsoft responded to an op-ed by New York Times contributor Farhad Manjoo, agreeing that Fox News was a “million…
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May 30, 2019
Twitter has gathered a group of academics to help decide the fate of free speech on its platform.
Twitter, the platform that bans people for tweeting “learn to code” at journalists, is considering cracking down on “white…
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May 29, 2019
Big Tech companies say Iranian hackers used social media to interfere with the American 2018 midterm election.
A group of anonymous hackers infiltrated social media sites in April 2018 to influence the midterm elections. According to…
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