Republican Convention Speakers BASH Big Tech Censorship

Republican National Convention (RNC) speakers have not been afraid to call out Big Tech for its role in censoring conservatives. Speakers like Charlie Kirk, Nick Sandmann and Tiffany and Melania Trump have stressed the importance of maintaining American freedoms, and have called out Big Tech companies to do so over the first three nights of the RNC.

WHAT?: Twitter Approves BLM Activist’s Threats Against Police

Twitter censors President Donald Trump for declaring he will enforce law and order, but issuing an ultimatum to randomly threaten police officers is A-OK with Twitter moderators. “A Twitter spokesman says activist and accused fraudster Shaun King’s threat to name Kenosha, Wisc., police officers is ‘not in violation’ of its rules — including its ban on ‘a threat of harm against an identifiable…

Report: Google Engineers Confused by Platform's Privacy Settings

Google doesn’t seem to understand privacy. Perhaps its employees need to Google it. A recent lawsuit against Google included emails from employees claiming that the company’s privacy settings are so complicated, even its own engineers don’t fully understand them.

 

Big Tech on Notice: Melania, Tiffany Trump Blast Social Media Tyranny

First Lady Melania Trump and the president’s youngest daughter Tiffany Trump blasted Big Tech during their speeches at the Republican National Convention. Many members of the Trump family have given the 2020 Republican National Convention a personal touch. They used it as an opportunity to defend their family patriarch’s presidency while raking the far-left over the coals.

YouTube AI Censors Twice as Many Videos in Second Quarter

When faced with the choice earlier this year, YouTube chose to censor more content on its platform during its second quarter than it had in any previous quarter.

YouTube reported that it removed twice as many videos in its second quarter than its first after sending its content moderators home during the COVID-19 shutdowns earlier this year in its Community Guidelines Enforcement…

Report: Activision Removes Tiananmen Square from Cold War Game Trailer

Activision apparently never read its own tagline “KNOW YOUR HISTORY OR BE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.” The company edited its new video game, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to cater to ommunist China. Activision quietly replaced the game trailer with one far shorter. The new one noticeably omitted footage from the famous Tiananmen Square crackdown by the communist Chinese government, which had a…

House Judiciary Committee Republicans Call Out Amazon for Using SPLC

Several Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee took a big step in holding Amazon accountable for discriminating against conservatives.

Republicans on the House Committee on the Judiciary sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on August 24 to “request a briefing on how AmazonSmile makes its eligibility determinations based on information from the SPLC.” The letter was…

Pew: 73% of Dems Approve of Social Media ‘Fact-Checking’ Politicians

A recent study found that Americans are divided strongly along party lines over whether Big Tech companies are worthy to fact-check politicians. Seventy-three percent of Democrats said they “strongly or somewhat approve” of Big Tech “labeling posts on their platforms from elected officials as inaccurate or misleading,” while “71% of Republicans say they at least somewhat disapprove,” Pew…

TikTok Filing Complaint that Challenges Trump EO Banning App in US

TikTok is reeling after two executive orders have threatened the Chinese-owned apps existence in the U.S. Now it has decided to take to the U.S. courts.

Today, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 6 that would ban the app in the United States. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, Ltd, has ties to the Chinese…

NYT: Facebook Prepares for Possible Crackdown on Trump after Election

Months before the presidential election, Facebook has already made plans to crack down on President Donald Trump’s posts in case he attempts to use the platform to contest the election’s legitimacy.

An August 21 New York Times article detailed Facebook’s plans to suppress the Trump campaign after the election if the president “interferes once the vote is over.”

Twitter Filters Trump Mail-in Voting Tweet for ‘Election Integrity’

It happened again. This time, Twitter undermined the president for expressing concern over voter fraud. President Donald Trump wrote an August 23 tweet criticizing “Mail Drop Boxes” as a “voter security disaster.” Twitter responded by placing an interstitial, or filter, over Trump’s tweet. The interstitial declared that Trump’s post expressing concern over potential voter fraud “violated the…

Facebook Censors Mark Dice’s Meme Mocking Kamala Harris

Big Tech has allowed open season on President Donald Trump for years, but cracks down quickly on criticism of the Democratic presidential ticket. Conservative media analyst and author Mark Dice announced that “Facebook censored a viral meme I posted last week about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris” in a Facebook post yesterday.

Reddit Censored Nearly 7,000 Subreddits for ‘Hate’

Despite recent news that the social media platform Reddit would allow President Donald Trump’s campaign to run ads on the platform, the company still squashes free speech on the platform.

Reddit has banned nearly 7,000 subreddits since enacting its new policies on “hate” June 29, according to the company’s quarterly report released on Thursday. 

 

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OBSESSED: Facebook Fact-Checkers Defend Kamala 60 Times in 10 Days

Facebook fact-checkers should be “non-partisan and transparent.” But they defended Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) 20 times to one over the course of 10 days. Since former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate, fact-checkers have fallen over themselves to defend her.