Free Speech
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June 26, 2019
The front page of the internet is suppressing popular conservative voices — “without warning.” Reddit’s subreddit group, The_Donald, was given a “quarantine” by admins following liberal complaints about…
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June 26, 2019
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) warned Big Tech companies and his Democratic counterparts Wednesday that free speech is a fundamental value, and losing it will “tear us apart.” Crenshaw was commenting during the June 26 hearing (viewable at 1:…
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June 25, 2019
When the U.S.-based crowdfunding website GoFundMe booted Australian athlete Israel Folau, critics had no idea it would be the best thing they could do for him. Folau is a popular national figure both as an athlete and an outspoken Christian. He…
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June 25, 2019
A new revelation from Project Veritas has found that YouTube and Google labeled popular conservative commentators as “Nazis.” In a leaked document published on June 25, an email from a Google employee, Liam Hopkins, described Ben…
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June 25, 2019
A recent exposé of a regional Wikipedia project revealed some troubling stories of propaganda and abuse — even denial of a genocide The Wikipedia branch in Azerbaijan, a small democratic Muslim country in the Middle East, allowed editors to…
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June 24, 2019
A crowdfunding platform has joined the mass liberal panic over state abortion bans. GoFundMe, the for-profit site where users create donation funds, made its own campaign to raise money for abortion clinics. On June 21, the fund was launched with…
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June 24, 2019
An Antifa-related activist group called “All Out DC” has been putting up posters with the personal information of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, as well as other free speech figures, in an effort to “Block the Alt-Right.” The group’s poster…
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June 24, 2019
Project Veritas has released an insider leak story exposing Google for biased, manipulative practices. James O’Keefe’s whistleblower outlet posted a video of Google Responsible Innovation Head, Jen Gennai, in a June 24 report. The…
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June 21, 2019
XBox has video game smack-talk in its crosshairs. In an interview with Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo, Xbox head Phil Spencer proclaimed that “Xbox Live is not a free speech platform.” He added that “It is not a place where…
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June 21, 2019
Reddit is notorious for its overzealous moderators, but one wonders what William Shatner could have possibly done to get banned from a large group. The social media platform, known as the “front page of the internet,” is home to several…
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June 20, 2019
In the wake of terror attacks, Big Tech companies are being taken to task over content policing. The June 26 hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee will feature testimonies from Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s parent company…
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June 20, 2019
Both sides of the political spectrum seem to misunderstand the damage online censorship does to the First Amendment. After Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) announced a tech free speech bill on June 19 that would address the problem of ideological…
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June 19, 2019
How do Americans feel about Big Tech companies policing content? Most people are for it but even more people doubt the companies can do it properly. Sixty-six percent of Americans, approximately 2/3rds of those surveyed say “social…
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June 19, 2019
Pro-life groups are rallying together against liberal censorship on Pinterest, an online scrapbooking site. After the pro-life group LiveAction was censored by Pinterest, allied pro-life groups have rallied to load the platform with the group…
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June 19, 2019
Republicans in the Senate plan on striking a blow for online free speech — by eradicating censorship of conservatives online. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a new bill June 19, meant to tackle the problem of tech monopolies and their…
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June 18, 2019
Facebook has long banned any use of cryptocurrency on its platform. Now all that has changed — because Facebook is doing it. The company launched a subsidiary called Calibra on June 18, which will oversee Facebook’s new cryptocurrency,…
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June 17, 2019
Facebook, which no longer funds CPAC, is now sponsoring an upcoming far-left convention. Netroots and its convention event Netroots Nation, originally founded by the far-left blogosphere during the Bush era, has enjoyed a renaissance amid the…
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June 17, 2019
Tech platforms are wiping any evidence of the Project Veritas video exposing Pinterest censorship. Twitter and YouTube have both taken down mentions of the Project Veritas Pinterest exposé in the past week since its release.
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June 17, 2019
Facebook is making a desperate attempt to push a Pollyanna philosophy on its users. This might backfire. In a June 14 blog post, Facebook announced an update to its policy. In a June 14 blog post, Facebook announced an update to its policy.…
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June 14, 2019
The massive tech monolith Google doesn’t want to be investigated or regulated. Google CEO Sundar Pichai carefully worded his criticisms of the antitrust investigations and the calls for regulation of big tech, in an June 13 interview with CNN…
