Censorship

The New York Times has a theory where Elon Musk’s belief in free speech comes from: his sheltered childhood as a white boy in Apartheid South Africa.

Former President Donald Trump condemned the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board in an interview with CBN News. Trump soundly scorched the new government board for its parallels with Soviet Russia.

In the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters mocked conservatives for suggesting Twitter was biased against conservative ideas and posts: "Right-wing accounts were never purged from Twitter to the degree that the sometimes overblown commentary suggests, though some high-profile users have been temporarily suspended for violating standards…

It’s Episode 36 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about Amazon employee and customer temper tantrums that led to the censorship of two books — one about child self-acceptance and the other about biology. 

Over the weekend, the Biden administration rolled out his Ministry of Truth under the Department of Homeland Security called the Disinformation Governance Board. This clearly Orwellian (1984) machination has rightly been the subject of scrutiny, but on Sunday’s Reliable Sources, CNN host and chief media apologist Brian Stelter suggested the real problem was the “right-wing…

It’s a cold day in hell when a leftist outlet like The Atlantic admits free speech online is actually a good thing. Atlantic contributing writer Jeffrey Rosen published a May 2 piece praising Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s view of Twitter and free speech: “Elon Musk Is Right That Twitter Should Follow the First Amendment.”

On Sunday’s episode of CNN’s Reliable Sources, media analyst and rabid leftist David Zurawik claimed that Congress needs to step in to regulate social media platforms now that free speech advocate Elon Musk has bought Twitter. 

The absurdity of a government agency to combat what is labeled as "disinformation" is so  blatant that even Politico mocked that idea.

Conservative Americans are hailing a rebirth of free speech with Elon Musk gaining ownership of Twitter. Nutty leftists are citing – of all people -- Colin Kaepernick to “prove” conservatives are hypocrites about free speech.

“It’s a censorship organization.” Tucker Carlson slammed the Pentagon’s $750,000 contract with leftist ratings firm NewsGuard on his Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight. Carlson reported on the outlandish contract between Biden’s Pentagon and leftist online “credibility” arbiter NewsGuard.

The world’s richest man went from liberating Twitter to blasting leftist extremism. Someone break out the popcorn. Wait But Why blog website founder Tim Urban retweeted a meme graph shared by Tesla CEO Elon Musk illustrating the current political divide in the country. The graph showed that as liberals pushed farther left, traditional liberals were left behind and now considered right-wing.…

It’s Episode 35 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about a recent MRC study that found 646 cases of censorship that covered criticism of President Joe Biden over the past two years.

The Trump-obsessed comedian Jimmy Kimmel thought he caught the former president in a “got heem” moment last night when trying to make fun of the former president’s Truth Social app. It aged horribly.

If CNN+ wanted yet another example for why it failed so miserably it could look to Tuesday’s edition of Amanpour and Company on CNN International and PBS where CNN+ anchor and business professor Scott Galloway wondered if Elon Musk’s version of free speech includes killing puppies.