Censorship

Big Tech took on Big Tech and lost. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sued YouTube for what Bloomberg called “a bogus bitcoin giveaway.” A judge said his case could not overcome the immunity provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. 

Your friendly Twitter censors are working on new warning labels for Tweets. "Get the latest," "Stay informed," and "Misleading."

Free speech online is an issue that should concern everyone, regardless of political persuasion. To combat the issue, several executives have started an organization to stand up against Big Tech censorship. The First and Fourteenth Institute (FAFI) claimed to advocate for free speech online, despite the different political leanings of its founders, including one blatant leftist. “We believe…

Jason Miller, senior advisor to former President Donald Trump, signaled that Trump may soon join another platform. “Stay tuned!” he tweeted. Trump’s blog, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” may soon be replaced. Former Nevada GOP Chairwoman Amy Tarkanian tweeted: “‘The Desk of Donald J. Trump’ section of President Trump’s website has been removed and will not be returning per @JasonMillerinDC…

Google has opened a new front in the online censorship fight — restricting access to documents created in Google Docs. Google Docs restricted Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, the first doctor to advocate for alternative COVID-19 treatments, from sharing six different documents. Users received a terms of service note when the doctor tried to share the documents with them. “We're sorry. You can't access…

Google has tracked users on the internet for years. At least one state’s attorney general has finally had enough and decided to take the tech giant to court for its “deceptive and unfair business practices.”

Alleged Facebook insider Morgan Kahmann went public in an interview with Project Veritas to reportedly expose Facebook’s system to crack down on COVID vaccine criticism.

Some groups on the left have organized in an effort to fight back against Florida’s new free speech law and have taken their complaints to court. NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) filed a complaint against several high-ranking Florida officials in an attempt to stop Florida’s new law combating Big Tech censorship. NetChoice and the CCIA each have…

Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell slammed the “fraudulent” Facebook fact-checker program for spreading communist Chinese propaganda after Facebook announced it was backtracking on its policy of censoring content that questioned the origins of COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, Facebook and its fact-checkers censored claims that COVID-19 was manufactured in a laboratory in Wuhan,…

Serious ethical question for any newspaper not named USA Today: If you accept an op-ed from an author representing one side of a highly controversial issue, is it right to change that writer’s words to conform with the language her opponents prefer? Is it right to do it retroactively, and without informing her? Further, is it right to call her original terminology “hurtful?”

Washington, D.C. has entered the battle against Big Tech with a new antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine filed the antitrust complaint against Amazon. The lawsuit alleged that “[c]ompetition and consumers were directly harmed” by Amazon’s “anticompetitive business practices.” It also alleged that Amazon’s practices actually raise prices for consumers.

Seth Rogen, the rabid liberal, Ted Cruz-hater and stoner comedy guru who hasn’t made a funny movie since 2014, is now defending cancel culture and saying that all the professional comedians complaining about it need to man up. In an interview with Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, Rogen claimed that he’s cool with cancel culture. He summarized the whole cancel culture phenomenon as…

Throughout the pandemic, Big Tech censored mountains of claims that COVID-19 may have originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Now, however, new evidence has made the laboratory origin claim a more widely accepted theory. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released a statement condemning Big Tech for censoring Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan’s comments about the potential origin of COVID-19…

Chris Rock, popular left-wing Hollywood celebrity, has become the latest addition to the list of  those condemning cancel culture. Sarah Silverman, Bryan Cranston, Bill Burr and Sharon Stone have also spoken out about the dangers of silencing opposing views. Maybe leftists are finally waking up to the reality that no one is safe from the social justice warriors that cancelled Dr. Seuss and…