'Gone With the Wind' CANCELLED for 'Racist Depictions'

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Alexa Moutevelis
June 10th, 2020 8:45 AM

Gone With the Wind is gone from HBO Max's video library after the classic film was effectively "cancelled" in today's racial climate. On Monday, 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times calling for HBO Max to remove Gone With the Wind from its library because it “glorifies the antebellum south,” “ignore[s] the horrors of slavery." 

 

New Facebook Oversight Board Member ‘Standing with the Revolutions!’

Alexander Hall
June 8th, 2020 5:23 PM

The most radical member of Facebook’s new Oversight Board just showed herself to be even more unhinged than many feared. Tawakkol Karman, a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, announced in a June 7 tweet amidst international destructive protests that she is “standing with the revolutions!” The Muslim Brotherhood has many divisions involved in nefarious activities. One of the Brotherhood’s…

 

Facebook CEO Crumples Under Pressure to Consider Censoring Trump

Corinne Weaver
June 8th, 2020 12:37 PM

After Facebook employees and the liberal media lobbied for the removal of President Donald Trump’s Facebook posts about the protests, it appears Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may listen to them.

 

They Have a Scalp: NYT Editor Bows to Mob, Resigns Over Cotton Op-Ed

Curtis Houck
June 7th, 2020 10:26 PM

In the latest blow to free speech, outside criticism, and exposure to opposing views, the woke, snowflake-laden New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer newsrooms forced the resignations Sunday afternoon of opinion editor James Bennet and executive editor Stan Wischnowski, respectively.

 
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MRC's Bozell: Zuckerberg Can't Give in to ‘Social Media Brown Shirts’

NB Staff
June 2nd, 2020 7:13 PM

Appearing early Tuesday evening on the Fox Business Network’s Evening Edit, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remain strong and refuse to give into the “social media brown shirts” at his company, which have demanded censorship of President Trump. In contrast, Bozell noted that his employees haven’t made the…

 

54% Say Social Media Should 'Allow Free Speech Without Interference'

Craig Bannister
June 2nd, 2020 12:03 PM

More than twice as many likely voters want social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, to allow free speech by users as want them to regulate what is posted, a new national survey by Rasmussen Reports reveals.

 

Satire Site The Babylon Bee Claims More Facebook Censorship

Heather Moon
May 29th, 2020 5:20 PM
The Babylon Bee has come under fire for its satirical posts on Facebook before, and it appears it’s happening again.
 
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Trump Cites NewsBusters in Making Strong Case Against Twitter

NB Staff
May 29th, 2020 12:44 PM

President Donald Trump hit back at Big Tech bias by signing an “Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship” in the Oval Office on Thursday. And he relied on information from the Media Research Center’s TechWatch to do it. Before Trump signed the executive order that interprets Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA), he showcased a blog by NewsBusters MRC TechWatch…

 
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CBS Claims Trump’s Twitter Feud Just a Distraction from Virus Deaths

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 28th, 2020 9:06 PM
While downplaying Silicon Valley’s documented censorship of conservatives, Thursday’s CBS Evening News accused President Trump of picking a fight with Twitter because it was a distraction from the coronavirus death toll, which surpassed 100,000 earlier in the week. Yet, White House correspondent Ben Tracy couldn’t even bring himself to say that it was conservatives who were accusing Twitter of…
 

About Time: Judge Throws Out Bonkers, Far-Left Lawsuit Against FNC

Curtis Houck
May 27th, 2020 5:06 PM
On Wednesday, Washington state Superior Court Judge Brian McDonald granted Fox News’s motion to dismiss the farcical pipe-dream of a lawsuit by the far-left WASHLITE claiming First Amendment rights don’t apply to the cable network. Why? According to WASHLITE, their early coverage of the coronavirus pandemic was deadly irresponsible. On the ruling’s last page, McDonald threw WASHLITE a bone in…
 

‘Completely Stifling FREE SPEECH’: Twitter Labels Trump Tweet With CNN

Corinne Weaver
May 27th, 2020 10:31 AM
Twitter has long threatened to label certain tweets from President Donald Trump. Now it finally has used the liberal media to fact-check his tweets.
 

Hypocritical Mika Brzezinski Desperately Tries to Censor Trump

Jeffrey Lord
May 23rd, 2020 4:00 PM
Here’s the headline from Fox News: "MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski wants Trump blocked by Twitter: ‘A call is being set up.’" The Fox report begins by noting Mika was furious with a presidential tweet that took aim at hubby Joe Scarborough, her co-host on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. The story goes on to say: 
 

Bozell Demands Consistency from Twitter CEO Dorsey

NB Staff
May 22nd, 2020 1:51 PM
RESTON, Va --- On Friday, MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell sent the following open letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey demanding consistency in policing of satirical content. In part, Bozell wrote: "For the record, I'd like you to explain the difference between satire and satire. Unless satire by the left is admissible but by the right deplorable. But that would make Twitter a biased…
 
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What? MSNBCer: 1st Amendment ‘Doesn’t Protect False Speech’ on Virus

Curtis Houck
May 21st, 2020 7:59 PM
For all of CNN’s conspiracy theories, juvenile news coverage, and lack of accountability on the left, MSNBC has had many of the same issues. On Thursday’s Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace and former Obama official Richard Stengel flaunted their opposition to the First Amendment, equating President Trump’s pandemic rhetoric to Chinese disinformation campaigns. But even more sinister…