Censorship

Twitter suspended the anonymous Defiant L’s account that exposed embarrassing liberal hypocrisy. The Defiant L’s Twitter account is known for tweeting images of ridiculous tweets from famous liberals or headlines from liberal outlets that are later contradicted by the same person or outlet.

A new bipartisan Senate bill reportedly aims to give parents more control over the time that their children spend online, but Congress may face a whole new world of safety and privacy concerns with the new metaverse.

Free speech advocates cautioned about giving the government and university researchers exclusive authority over social media data as lawmakers expect to soon consider a proposal to force new information disclosures from Big Tech.

It’s Episode 25 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about a study that MRC’s Free Speech America team recently conducted. Results showed that from March 2020 to Feb. 2022, Big Tech censored more than 808 COVID-19-related posts.

A censor every hour to help liberal media tyrants keep power? If media outlet BuzzFeed gets its way, censorship could be more invasive in the metaverse even than on current social media platforms.

Hackers reportedly shut down fundraising site GiveSendGo temporarily after the Canadian Freedom Convoy raised millions of dollars on the platform. The site’s front page reportedly redirected to a mocking video from the movie Frozen 2 that accused the convoy of promoting “insurrection,” called GiveSendGo “a continuing threat to democracy” and supported the authoritarian Canadian…

Facebook reportedly blocked the account of Canadian businesswoman Raechel Allan-Nicholls allegedly for being associated with the Freedom Convoy protesting draconian COVID-19 policies.

Since the so-called “fact first” Cable News Network was busy ignoring the bombshell report from Special Counsel John Durham finding evidence the Clinton campaign was spying on then-President Trump, they needed to fill their airtime with SOMETHING. That’s why they called up chief media reporter Brian Stelter to defend Whoopi Goldberg (stage name) and suggested it was the “wrong answer” for ABC…

Innovative tech entrepreneur David Sacks told Megyn Kelly on her show, “Silicon Valley turned its back on a lot of the principles that it was founded with, in terms of a free and open internet.” Now the very tech platforms that defined themselves as democratic have turned to “policing” and censoring users, he said.

The leftist group PatriotTakes was part of the release of a controversial video that attacked podcasting star Joe Rogan. PatriotTakes just happens to be reportedly partnered with leftist SuperPAC MeidasTouch, which was funded by actress Bette Midler.

Republican senators slammed President Joe Biden’s FCC nominee Gigi Sohn during her Feb. 9 Senate confirmation hearing. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and others hit her both for her bias and for a “sweetheart deal.”

Big Tech speech restrictions turned COVID-19 into the most pro-censorship environment in the U.S. at least since World War II. Media Research Center has found more than 800 examples of bans, deleted content, and other speech restrictions related to the virus, as well as to resultant vaccines masking and government policies.

“Profits above all else” was the fact that rang true on Tuesday’s edition of The Lead on CNN as anchor Jake Tapper and Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel called out liberal Hollywood for capitulating to the censors in communist China to get their blood money.

The Wall Street Journal called out American companies for sponsoring the Olympics in a country the U.S. has accused of genocide. In an article headlined “Why the Beijing Olympics Are Awkward for Corporate Do-Gooders,” The Wall Street Journal…