Free Speech

Big Tech censors: We know what we’re doing. Their algorithms: April Fools! It’s a tall task for Big Tech companies to justify mashing the censorship button on conservative speech when the systems they use to do their dirty work are so stupid that they always come back to kick them in the pants. 

Democracy or demagoguery? YouTube censored a Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial debate hosted by a pro-family institute, then reinstated the video, claiming it had “mistakenly” removed the event video.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) called for unity among free speech advocates during a podcast by The Daily Signal. During the interview, she said that the GOP should be ready on “day one” with conservative reforms to protect free speech and stop censorship online.

It’s Episode 31 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how YouTube took down two days’ worth of videos from the February 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  

Big Tech faced yet another blow from the Department of Justice. Originally reported by The Wall Street Journal, the DOJ sent letters to members of the congressional judiciary committees and asked them to support an antitrust bill that prevented Big Tech companies from showing favoritism to their own products.

In a Tuesday appearance on the Fox Business Network’s The Evening Edit, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell called out the liberal Big Tech companies and media for their “censorship” of the Hunter Biden laptop story that has recently been confirmed by The New York Times. He also called out their double standard for scrutinizing the business dealing of presidential…

Twitter and other Big Tech social media companies are brazenly censoring America’s conservatives, while providing an open platform for its enemies, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) says.

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube allow seven dictators, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, unfettered access to post on their platforms, influencing approximately 50 million followers as of March 28. Meanwhile, former leader of the free world President Donald Trump is still banned.

A senior editor at The Federalist was locked out of his Twitter account over the weekend after he called Rachel Levine a man. According to The Federalist, Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson tweeted that Levine “is in fact a man” and was locked out of his account. Levine is a transgender woman who works for the Biden administration.

Former Google CEO and tech billionaire Eric Schmidt was reportedly involved with Biden’s White House science office in a way that raises serious ethical concerns. Politico reported that former Google CEO and leftist billionaire Schmidt even apparently paid the salaries of government officials, among other actions.

Congress should target monopolies as it advances Big Tech legislation, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said last week. “If ninety percent of your searches go through one search engine, is that a monopoly?” McCarthy asked during an interview on Thursday. “If you’re using a platform, and you’re picking and choosing what somebody can say on it, you shouldn’t have liability protection…

Liberals once infamously told free speech advocates to build their own platforms if they dislike Big Tech censorship. But unsurprisingly, the liberal New York Times is now suggesting that the pro-free speech platform Rumble will help conservatives get elected because liberal technocrats didn’t intervene. 

Recalling White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s revelation that the Biden Administration is working with Big Tech social media platforms to limit free speech, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) warned Friday of the threat to Americans’ First Amendment rights.

So-called fact-checkers should be eating crow following authentication of the emails from Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop by The New York Times. But a new analysis shows they’re being as brazen as ever by not updating old articles challenging the credibility of the story.