Free Speech

To lobby, or not to lobby? That’s no longer a question for pro-censorship Twitter. A group of tech companies, including Twitter, are looking to push their policy objectives. Pro-censorship Twitter and Vimeo are among five companies forming the “Open Internet Alliance” to advocate for specific legislation and regulation of the internet.

Twitter censored The Federalist’s reporting and warned that links to the publication’s reporting “may be unsafe.” According to The Federalist, Twitter displayed the following message to users who attempted to access the publication’s content: “The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe.” The warning added that the…

The Department of Justice requested that Google be sanctioned in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit. The basis of the suit was surrounded by the argument that Google was a monopoly. Reclaim The Net reported that the DOJ alleged in a pleading that Google instructed its employees on how to mark documents as “confidential” to hide documents during the discovery phase of the lawsuit.

It’s Episode 30 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Facebook censored Heritage Action’s video compilation of President Joe Biden praising his anti-American energy plan. 

Twitter censored Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk for declaring that United States Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine had lived for many years as a male. 

Conservatives should pare down the several pending Big Tech reform bills into one or two pieces of legislation that can garner broad support if/when Republicans win control of Congress.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr slammed Big Tech and President Joe Biden for mislabeling the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. Once again, the Russian disinformation excuse for leftist scandals has been revealed as a canard. And the trope had electoral implications as well. 

The Media Research Center (MRC) is proud to announce the addition of a new partner to the Free Speech Alliance, The Heritage Foundation. “Big Tech is an enemy of the American people,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts said in a press release.

Internet traffic cop NewsGuard outed itself as a pathetic joke by giving perfect grades to outlets that tried to quash the Hunter Biden laptop story. Left-wing news organizations Politico, The Washington Post, Axios and USA Today all maligned the Biden bombshell by the New York Post as possibly part of a 2020 “disinformation” campaign.

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database reached an important milestone as it continues to monitor the war Big Tech companies have waged on free speech online.

The chief executive of a megafund dedicated to health care workers attacked Facebook for allowing “misinformation.” Debby Blakey is chief executive of HESTA, a megafund worth $68 billion.

Twitter locked The Babylon Bee’s account Sunday evening. The platform locked the account after the satire site posted that Rachel Levine was the site’s “Man of the Year.” Levine is a transgender woman.

Twitter Blocks Links To Daily Mail Article Questioning COVID-19 Deaths. The article was written by the Daily Mail’s deputy health editor, Eve Simmons, and alleged that the UK’s government may have vastly overstated the number of deaths from the virus.

Twitter flagged tweets from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the wake of his comments on two transgender women. According to the Washington Examiner, Paxton tweeted last week about Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine and swimmer Lea Thompson. Both are transgender women.