Censorship Project

The House Judiciary Committee passed six antitrust bills aimed at Big Tech in a two-day marathon markup. The markup left some conservatives leery of the power that platforms may still hold over users. However, a new Senate bill could help to alleviate some concerns about Big Tech’s power. 

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows warned that conservatives should be skeptical of a Democrat-led effort to shape how Big Tech impacts the United States.
 

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) torched fellow politicians for denying that Big Tech needs an antitrust reckoning, especially those Republicans who are taking money from Big Tech.

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn bowed to China once again when it reportedly censored the profile of a Swedish writer to appease the Chinese Communist Party. LinkedIn is reportedly the only major Western social media company that operates freely in China because it has been willing to adhere to the requirements of the Chinese government’s censorious restrictions on speech and information.

Big Tech platforms like Twitter were once characterized by free content. Now the platform is working toward releasing Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces as the internet shifts toward paid access to influencers.

From Planned Parenthood to Satanism, AmazonSmile encourages shoppers to donate to some extreme charities — at least 216 different groups. But multiple prominent conservative groups aren’t even allowed to participate.

Amazon, which is on track to be America’s largest retailer next year, launched its charity program AmazonSmile in 2013. The company has banned multiple conservative…

Big Tech bias is not limited to Facebook, Google and Twitter. The ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee has decided to call out Microsoft for its censorship of conservative voices. 

Censorious tech activist and former Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao proclaimed the success of deplatforming across Big Tech platforms to obliterate so-called “hate” from the internet.

Game developer Scott Cawthon created one of the most famous survival horror video games. Now he is reportedly being harassed for donating to politicians the radical left doesn’t approve of.

YouTube has reportedly struck down yet another video of a school board meeting for violating its policies on misinformation. The platform reportedly took down a video from the Shawnee Mission School Board in Kansas City, Kansas for “spreading medical misinformation and violating YouTube's community guidelines,” according to NPR. “School board president Heather Ousley says having the broadcast…

Former Congressman Denver Riggleman and Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, argue that hate speech “precedent” should be used to ban extremism online.

Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, was inexplicably suspended from Twitter on Friday.

A book review discussing the irreversible damage of gender dysphoria in children was removed after backlash.

Facebook appears to have finally developed a sense of humor after its history of fact-checking and targeting satire sites like The Babylon Bee. The platform announced that it has developed a satire exception to its censorship practices in response to a recent decision from the Oversight Board (the Board). The Board overturned Facebook’s decision to censor a meme that a user had posted.…