Free Speech
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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 company policy…
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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 Twitter when he…
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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 journalism that…
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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 Russian…
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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 Square…
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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 reasons in…
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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 York Times,…
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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.
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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 Review,…
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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 Elizabeth Warren…
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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 pound fork-…
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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 offensive “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 prominent…
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May 28, 2019
Journalists freaked out over a slowed-down video that made Nancy Pelosi look silly and have sparked a debate over what videos should and shouldn’t be permitted online. The result was a pile-on with the media calling for speech to be silenced,…
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May 28, 2019
A documentary about the migration crisis in Europe went viral despite YouTube restricting it within 24 hours of its release. YouTuber and filmmaker Lauren Southern released the #Borderless documentary on May 24. The film centers on the crisis of…
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May 24, 2019
Do as I say, not as I do. The censorious ideas pushed by popular Twitter #Resistance twins have come back to bite them. Activists Ed and Brian Krassenstein were permanently suspended from Twitter May 23. The Daily Beast reported the liberal…
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May 23, 2019
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are ready to admit that everyone is biased, including their own employees. At a May 22, hearing in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, representatives from the major tech companies were grilled about…
