Free Speech

Instagram and its parent company Facebook have purged several what it called “extremist” figures ranging from controversial Jewish activist Laura Loomer to anti-Semitic hate preacher Rev. Louis Farrakhan. In the latest round of tech bans, Facebook and Instagram have deplatformed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Infowars, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Loomer and Farrakhan.

Social media has been consistently banning people based on liberal complaints. But when it bans someone championed by liberal Hollywood and the Democrats, suddenly everyone becomes a free-speech advocate.

Tech execs and influencers do not want to see conservative opinions on their platforms. In an interview with Mother Jones, former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao slammed the existence of subreddits like The_Donald.

Activists have forced Mastercard to call a vote at its upcoming June shareholder meeting that could result in the credit company refusing service to conservatives. A plan promoted by liberal activist group SumOfUs called for Mastercard to add a “human rights committee” to prevent right wing individuals and groups from being able to access money donated to them from supporters via Mastercard.…

The attack on the conservative internet has reached a new low. Poynter, the journalism institute responsible for training writers and reporters, decided to promote a left-wing smear of conservative groups online. The result was a hit job written by someone who works for the anti-conservative Southern Poverty Law Center for a journalism organization funded by prominent liberal billionaires such as…

Social media companies appear to be tossing away their copies of SPLC’s bogus “hate map.” It took a while, but Facebook finally responded to the April 3 call from MRC president Brent Bozell and numerous other conservative leaders for the platform to cut ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Markus Persson, aka “Notch,” the original inventor of the worldwide video game phenomenon Minecraft, has been memory-holed by Microsoft from the game’s history for being politically incorrect. Persson created the original game in 2009, and sold the rights to Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion. Since then, Microsoft appears to have done it's best to scrub his memory from the franchise. According…

In the latest case of Big Tech interfering with elections, Twitter recently banned at least two candidates running for office. Tommy Robinson (legal name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) is both the former leader of the English Defence League and an alumni of conservative Canadian news outlet Rebel media. BBC reported Robinson will run for European Parliament. Carl Benjamin, better known as SargonOfAkkad,…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s many interviews in the past few months left the media wondering: where does he get his information? In an interview with podcaster Sam Harris, Dorsey dropped that he knew that journalists who leaned left were less likely to follow right-leaning journalists than right-leaning journalists were to follow left-leaning journalists.  

Facebook seems to struggle with the concept of transparency, especially when it comes to how it goes about banning and censoring content. The mystery was somewhat illuminated when a journalist from the The Telegraph (U.K.)was allowed to sit in on a meeting of Facebook content moderators.

Twitter is so mired in liberal propaganda that it views opposition ideology as the equivalent of white supremacy. In an report by Vice’s Motherboard,  a Twitter executive told an employee in a meeting that Twitter could not ban white supremacists in the same way as it bans ISIS terrorists.

Ideological bias runs rampant in the search to regulate the internet. In the U.K., on the heels of the Home Secretary’s new proposals for regulating the internet, the Oxford Internet Institute announced a new commission to “safeguard democracy” from “misinformation, ‘fake news,’ and micro-targeting.” Last year, "junk news" sites included us -- NewsBusters, CNSNews.com and MRCTV. 

Apparently it’s easier to just pay fines than it is to make active changes to a site’s privacy policies — when your Big Tech company is big enough. In the last quarter, Facebook pulled in more than $15 billion in revenue, and reported that it would set aside $5 billion for any fines “as and when necessary.”

Google has come under fire from both Republicans and Democrats for its invasions of privacy. Now Congress wants is holding its feet to the fire. Democrats and Republicans from the House Energy and Commerce Committee penned an April 23 open letter to Google’s CEO over its Sensorvault database. They demanded answers from Google by May 7, followed with a briefing by May 10.