Free Speech

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, New York Times opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo asked his Twitter followers who felt strongly about the issue “what specific policy are you saying FB should…

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 “massive demographic changes” to Europe as millions fled from hotbeds of terror, violence, war or political unrest in the Middle-East and Africa after…

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 Twitter stars had allegedly been banned for “[breaking] the site’s rules about operating fake accounts and purchasing fake interactions with their accounts.”

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 algorithms and shadowbanning. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) doubled down on the topic of algorithms, asking if the people who created the algorithms were…

Palmer Luckey’s firing proves that even the most talented of tech wizards can be purged for wrongthink. The founder of Oculus and a former Facebook employee, Luckey joked in a May 22 CNBC interview about his 2017 firing: “I gave $10,000 to a pro-Trump group, and I think that’s something to do with it.”

Rising conservative star to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) scorched social media as a waste of time as well as an “addictive drug.” Hawley blasted social media as a blight on American society in a May 22 opinion piece for USA Today. He accused Big Tech companies of creating a business model based on addiction, saying that they develop “new schemes to hijack their users’ neural circuitry.” 

Twitter is built with an apocalyptic attitude toward conservatives and conservative media. The company’s co-founder Ev Williams told CNN Business in a May 22 interview that he believed that Twitter was not destructive towards the political landscape in the U.S.

Google prides itself on creating a “safe,” politically “nonpartisan” and “inclusive” workplace… for everybody but conservatives, according to one Google engineer. Conservative Google software engineer Mike Wacker published a scathing May 21 tell-all on Medium describing the liberal insanity he encounters on a daily basis. “If left unchecked,” he wrote, “these outrage mobs will hunt down any…

While Democrats ironically call for Facebook to be broken up, one would never know from looking at their campaign receipts. In the course of 22 days, Democrats running for president have outspent Trump on social media ads by 5-to-1.  

Both The New York Times and Washington Post blasted the free speech position taken by President Donald Trump last week. World leaders, led by New Zealand, united around the Christchurch Call to demand stronger internet censorship. This followed the deadly Christchurch terror attack that killed 51 Muslims. President Trump not only refused to sign on, but established a censorship reporting hotline…

The academic elite behind the prevalent philosophy in tech censorship is ready to blame the GOP for pretty much everything. A study produced by three Iowa State University and University of Kansas professors has studied the link between political rhetoric and white nationalist hate crimes.  

Having it your way at Burger King might well include urging violence against conservatives, according to critics of the company. The fast food company’s UK Twitter account has been tied to attacks on conservative political figures. There has been a recent epidemic of conservative British politicians being repeatedly doused by protestors’ milkshakes.

Facebook’s COO claims that breaking up the company will put America at a disadvantage to China. During a May 17 CNBC interview with Julia Boorstin, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg tried to dodge government regulation by appealing to American interests.

The Women’s March has a new agenda item: to delete all signs of President Donald Trump from social media. On May 20, the left-wing activist organization prepared 300,000 signatures as a petition to ban Trump, to be delivered at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco and New York City.