Censorship

Twitter mashed its SHUT UP button on Christian satire site The Babylon Bee. Twitter’s latest episode in its ongoing campaign to silence The Bee involved reportedly locking its founder Adam Ford out of his account for simply trolling the platform with benign humor. 

To lobby, or not to lobby? That’s no longer a question for pro-censorship Twitter. A group of tech companies, including Twitter, are looking to push their policy objectives. Pro-censorship Twitter and Vimeo are among five companies forming the “Open Internet Alliance” to advocate for specific legislation and regulation of the internet.

It’s Episode 30 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Facebook censored Heritage Action’s video compilation of President Joe Biden praising his anti-American energy plan. 

Conservatives should pare down the several pending Big Tech reform bills into one or two pieces of legislation that can garner broad support if/when Republicans win control of Congress.

The Media Research Center (MRC) is proud to announce the addition of a new partner to the Free Speech Alliance, The Heritage Foundation. “Big Tech is an enemy of the American people,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts said in a press release.

Internet traffic cop NewsGuard outed itself as a pathetic joke by giving perfect grades to outlets that tried to quash the Hunter Biden laptop story. Left-wing news organizations Politico, The Washington Post, Axios and USA Today all maligned the Biden bombshell by the New York Post as possibly part of a 2020 “disinformation” campaign.

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database reached an important milestone as it continues to monitor the war Big Tech companies have waged on free speech online.

The editorial page of Sunday’s New York Times issued a 2,500-word defense of free expression, “Free Speech Is Under Threat.” Welcome, but overdue and also hypocritical, given the Times’ trend over the last few years of trying to shut down speech it dislikes and that it can’t monitor or control: And don’t wait for the paper to apologize for or acknowledge their role in the squelching of free…

NewsGuard CEO Steven Brill outed himself as completely biased before The New York Times’ confirmation of the existence of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop emails. The New York Times recently confirmed what conservatives already knew — the Hunter Biden laptop emails were legitimate. The Times reported on Hunter’s laptop, tying emails found on the computer to a federal investigation. 

After scores of COVID and Ukraine questions at Thursday’s White House press briefing, Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann and Daily Mail’s Rob Crilly finally broke through with one question each about Hunter Biden in light of a New York Times report that all but admitted the New York Post was right in 2020 about his infamous laptop. Unfortunately, Press Secretary Jen Psaki wanted nothing to…

Republican lawmakers tore into Big Tech for censoring the New York Post’s October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story on Thursday after The New York Times tied files on the computer to a federal investigation.

Big Tech censorship went from targeting statements of former President Donald Trump to targeting quotes of current President Biden’s embarrassing statements. Heritage Action was their latest target.

It’s Episode 29 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how YouTube censored a  podcast episode featuring former President Donald Trump. Full Send Podcast features a group of “boys havin some honest convos,” according to the Instagram page. The hosts routinely say whatever they want and maintain a “full send” mindset.

Notable conservatives tore into Facebook after a report from WIRED emerged that alleged the platform has allowed child exploitation groups to flourish. “While Facebook is busy cracking down on conservative opinions they disagree with, child exploitation persists on its platforms,” Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) said in exclusive comments to MRC Free Speech America.