Free Speech

Recode co-founder and New York Times contributor Kara Swisher wrote an opinion piece for The Times that was no less than a tantrum aimed at Facebook’s refusal to be as censorious as other Big Tech companies in the lead up to this November’s election. Swisher’s ultimatum to Facebook, “Clean Up Your Act, Facebook, or We’re Leaving,” is an example of the progressive left’s…

Facebook is radically changing the news that is most likely to pop up across Americans’ News Feeds, just in time to have a huge impact on the upcoming election. Facebook’s Newsroom announced in a June 30 blog that “Today, we’re updating the way news stories are ranked in News Feed to prioritize original reporting and stories with transparent authorship.” Facebook stated that its new policy…

After years of liberals scapegoating Russian interference for their 2016 defeat, they have turned up the heat on Big Tech to prevent that from happening again. Now, Silicon Valley is doing its best to ensure that President Donald Trump is defeated in November. Several Big Tech companies have made calculated policy reforms, bowing to leftist demands and bending under the weight of a growing…

Activists realize they can bully people into giving them what they want by rioting in the streets or pressuring online. Reddit, like other corporations, has responded by giving them exactly what they want: shutting down pro-Trump political speakers online and politically-incorrect speech of all kinds. “Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and about 2,000 other communities today…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said, “I don’t think it’s right for a private company to censor politicians or the news in a democracy.” The sentiment seemed to vanish after a slew of ad boycotts and hit pieces in the liberal media.

As the Trump administration initiates war on Big Tech censorship, President Donald Trump suspects that Silicon Valley liberals will use every dirty trick they can come up with, including censoring him. Trump speculated in an interview with The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech that his Twitter account’s days are numbered. When asked by Domenech if he believed he would be banned by Twitter,…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg caved to internal and external pressure and once again changed Facebook policies. He declared his platform will be “adopting some new policies to prohibit a wider category of hateful content in ads.” In a June 26 livestream Zuckerberg said his company does “believe that there is a public interest in allowing a wider range of free expression in people’s posts than…

Imagine a groan-inducing trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles, but for social media censorship. Such is the Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency (PACT) Act. The PACT Act, from Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), is an attempt to find a way to satisfy the left and right about online censorship. It also appears to be proof that two heads are not always better…

Instagram has reportedly censored users from sharing a video by Christian missionary and Bethel Music artist Sean Feucht. The artist said the platform is “classifying my WORSHIP videos as ‘harmful or false information.’” “An Instagram user attempted to reshare video of Feucht during a peaceful protest, yet was blocked because the content doesn't align with [the platform’s] ‘diverse community…

Twitter has continued its unabashed attacks on President Donald Trump and his allies by permanently suspending well-known, pro-Trump meme creator Carpe Donktum. “I have been Permanently Suspended by twitter for the Todler [sic] video that President Trump tweeted last week,” Carpe Donktum announced in a post on free speech platform Locals.com. Carpe Dontum explained that he “received a DMCA…

Twitter is at it again. The social media site censored President Donald Trump’s response to raging protests just outside the White House. Trump warned the attempt to turn historic St. John’s Episcopal Church into a “Black House Autonomous…

President Donald Trump’s signed proclamation to halt visas that import foreign workers has enraged Big Tech leaders. Apparently diversity and cheap labor are more important to them than aiding American workers during an unprecedented economic crisis.

Google has an infamous history of censoring conservatives, and now it has claimed that it will bring fact-checking to Google images. Google will soon start fact-checking photos and videos in an effort to ensure that people "have access to critical context about the information⁠ — and now images ⁠— they encounter online."  Google Group Product Manager Harris Cohen wrote a brief company blog…

Censorship doesn’t just stop at blocking freedom of expression. Banks and financial processors wield the power to halt one’s livelihood at the mere accusation of “hate speech.”