Free Speech

Claremont Institute President Ryan P. Williams tweeted that his organization’s advertisements are being blocked on bogus charges. He claimed that Google operatives were “punishing us for our political thought by refusing to let us advertise to our own readers.” He elaborated that his organization sought to advertise an upcoming May 11 gala, “But Google refuses to allow us to do so.”  

CNN is ready to push Big Tech into banning President Donald Trump -- as a “dangerous” person. Facebook and Instagram banned six individuals and all links to conspiracy website InfoWars as “dangerous” last week.

Facebook has a way of labelling and categorizing ideologies and individuals that it has banned. But how does it view other groups it hasn’t banished? On May 2, Facebook banned Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, Infowars’ Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and a handful of others. These individuals and any links promoting them were banned from Facebook and Facebook’s…

After slamming at least 29 conservative outlets and websites as “unreliable,” it appears Poynter was unprepared for the negative response it caused — for publishing something incredibly unreliable. When the Washington Examiner reacted to the Poynter blacklist, which included 515 websites and at least 29 conservative sites, Poynter took the Examiner off the list. Later, on May 2, it removed a…

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.