Censorship

It’s Episode Ten of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about how Big Tech favors the left even when it comes to individual opinions, this time regarding trans and traditional family ideologies. 

Big Tech platforms censored Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s documentary series on the events of January 6th even before it was fully released, and media leftists have called for more.

The U.K.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate wants to censor organizations that disagree with it on climate policy. It released an absurd report attacking the Media Research Center and eight other conservative organizations in an attempt to shut them down online.

A proposed law in the United Kingdom (U.K.) would reportedly regulate social media like a “hazard industry,” with new methods of censorship. Free speech advocates should be concerned.

Truly evil folks in the liberal media were sent into a bloodlust Saturday when an Associated Press report targeted an unnamed Southwest airline pilot who said goodbye to his disembarking passengers by ending his sign-off with “Let’s Go Brandon,” the anti-Biden slogan sweeping the nation. This led to the AP reporter trying to break into the cockpit to confront him and CNN employees on Twitter…

“Who is going to be the unbiased arbiter of truth? I don’t think it exists,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said, challenging the leftist narrative pushing for greater censorship of online speech.

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe reportedly bought ads promoting what Fox News called a “fake news” website to boost his image on social media. And the broadcast evening news shows censored it.

It’s not the first time a Big Tech executive bragged about censoring speech online, and it likely won’t be the last. A YouTube executive testified at a Senate hearing yesterday that the platform had removed more than one million videos for so-called COVID-19 “misinformation.”

It’s Episode Nine of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about the newest trend for sporting events, bumper stickers, T-Shirts, and songs, “Let’s Go Brandon,” and how Big Tech is exhausting all efforts to silence the movement.

Facebook’s algorithms and tools reportedly unfairly limited conservative news sites and personalities. Facebook employees also reportedly exerted continual pressure on their company to censor more. But Congressmen have had enough and spoke out against Facebook’s unfair bias.

The U.S. Senate hearing on SnapChat, TikTok, and YouTube today made one thing very clear: TikTok does not appear to want to give straight answers about its connection to China. But U.S. Senators took the Big Tech platform to the mat.

Wisconsin Republicans are backing state bills to allow censored social media users to sue platforms for damages, in an attempt to target online censorship.

One of the most notorious liberal billionaire mega-donors in the United States is reportedly aiding Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who advocated for more Big Tech censorship.

Twitter’s bout with free speech online continues. The platform censored U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for stating in a tweet that transgender admiral Dr. Rachel Levine was not “the first female anything” but a “dude who lived the first 50 years of his life as a man.” Taylor Greene was met with a storm of leftist fury on the platform.