Censorship

The Babylon Bee Editor-in-Chief Kyle Mann told Reason Editor-at-Large Nick Gillespie why his company has refused to delete the infamous tweet that got it kicked off Twitter.

Chinese Communist Party-tied ByteDance not only owns other tech companies like the U.S. app TikTok, it also is extending its influence to sectors including news and the medical industry, Forbes reported.

Yelp is putting warnings on listings for crisis pregnancy centers, lest babies slip through the abortion net.

A former Twitter executive just blew the whistle against the Big Tech platform for allegedly ignoring serious cybersecurity problems and apparently misleading prospective owner Elon Musk on spam bots.

Tech outlet WIRED complained that Google’s search results need improvement—through more censorship! WIRED whined in an Aug. 16 piece that content on Google, just like on social media platforms, can create an “information trap.” Francesca Tripodi asserted in the WIRED article that “[c]onspiracy theorists and propagandists” are engineering online content to spread “lies.”

It’s Episode 51 of CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about how Big Tech has an anti-conservative and anti-Christian bias. 

Last week, Grant Sikes, a freshman MALE at the University of Alabama attempted to join a sorority, yes, the Greek Life chapter for females. Thankfully, he was dropped the day before bid day. 

Foreign interference in U.S. elections? Chinese Communist Party-linked TikTok launched an in-app Elections Center in the lead-up to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.

They’re at it again! Two of the leading platforms responsible for censoring the bombshell New York Post Hunter Biden scandal stories before the 2020 presidential election are gearing up to censor free speech to combat so-called “misinformation” ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

The New York Times is having another meltdown over so-called “election misinformation” on social media and trying to pressure Big Tech companies to up their already over-bloated censorship operations.

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board slammed Twitter in light of new “hard evidence that Twitter booted blogger Alex Berenson” after White House officials complained about the journalist to Twitter employees.

Shielding the FBI? Twitter restricted the link to a PJ Media article questioning the FBI’s motives for raiding former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

Big Tech sent a stark message to conservatives during the second quarter of this year that it will continue to fiercely protect President Joe Biden and censor viewpoints that differ from the left’s narrative on major political issues.

A post that dared to accurately point out that an Internal Revenue Service job posting required a willingness to use “deadly force” apparently triggered Facebook’s leftist fact-checking partners.