Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, will sue Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook founder at CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a class-action lawsuit, according to a report in Axios.
After a federal judge overturned a Florida law that attempted to rein in the Big Tech Masters of the Universe, State Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R) says Big Tech companies should be regulated like common carriers in the Sunshine State, a categorization that would be difficult to shoot down in court.
With their brands in tatters and public trust declining, the Big Tech Masters of the Universe are using small businesses to push their agenda in Washington DC, according to a new report from a left-wing think tank.
Florida’s much-celebrated tech bill has been blocked by a federal judge. The bill committed a grievous, very Republican sin: it promised the world to grassroots conservatives, and in the end delivered nothing.
Florida’s law to restrict censorship by Big Tech companies has been struck down by a federal judge, on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment. The judge called the law “riddled with imprecision and ambiguity.”
Twitter has blacklisted the popular account “Journalists Posting Their L’s,” which primarily mocked the media by repostingmaterial that had already been posted or published by journalists. The account had accumulated over 163,000 followers on Twitter before being banned from the platform.
Federal law enforcement agencies secretly request the data of Microsoft customers thousands of times per year, according to the congressional testimony of Tom Burt, the company’s VP for customer security and trust.
SoundCloud, a popular platform for hosting podcasts, radio interviews, music, and other audio files has banned conservative journalist and author Andy Ngo, known for his work exposing the violent domestic terrorist Antifa movement.
Axios is blaming a drop in traffic for publishers — particularly news publishers that are open about their partisan slant — on a “boring news cycle,” but the decline also follows Facebook’s decision to reduce the amount of political content in users’ news feeds.
Binance, one of the world’s largest centralized cryptocurrency exchanges has been banned from operating regulated activities in the United Kindom by the Financial Conduct Authority, the country’s financial and markets regulator.
Right Wing Watch, a project dedicated to smearing conservatives and getting them blacklisted from social media, has been blacklisted by YouTube.
A number of emails seen by CNN — which uses them to make the case that the platform isn’t censoring enough — show that the Biden campaign repeatedly pressured Facebook to censor posts from the Trump campaign and its supporters about election integrity.
Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Google are waging a massive lobbying offensive in Washington DC to halt the passage of major antitrust legislation.
Conservative rappers Bryson Gray and Patriot J say “Safe Spaces,” their new collaborative song dissing Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden, and overly sensitive leftist social justice warriors, has been banned by both Spotify and Soundcloud, two of the leading music hosting platforms.
Conservative filmmaker Margaret VandenBerghe, who was banned from Instagram last week, has been reinstated on the Facebook-owned platform following coverage from Breitbart News.
The American Choice and Innovation Online Act and the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act passed the committee stage yesterday night, with a vote of 24 to 20 in the House Judiciary Committee. The Big Tech bills are now cleared to proceed to a floor vote.
Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee, who sought the Libertarian Party nomination for President in 2016 and 2020, has been found dead in a prison cell in Spain, according to reports. The tech tycoon previously claimed that “if I suicide myself, I didn’t. I was whackd.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who has taken a critical line against Democrat-led efforts to regulate Silicon Valley tech giants, notably the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, said he would draft his own bill aimed at curbing the excessive power of Big Tech.
The new Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), an agency with the power to threaten corporations with costly antitrust fines among other regulatory burdens, once co-authored a paper with a progressive scholar who advocates the use of antitrust law to solve “structural racism.”
Twitter locked the account of the National File, a national populist news website, for reporting on a tweet from Tami Burages, a woman who says her 13-year old nephew died three days after receiving a second dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ruled that private user information, including IP addresses, names, and postal addresses can, under certain conditions, be handed over to intellectual property rights holders and other third parties that make copyright claims.
Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to Microsoft president Brad Smith today, seeking answers on the company’s attitude towards conservatives, and on whether the company will be impacted by proposed new regulations on antitrust.
Twitter and the Democrat-run government of California are facing a lawsuit alleging that they colluded to suppress the First Amendment rights of Rogan O’Handley, a popular pro-Trump activist who was banned from the platform earlier this year. The complaint includes emails showing California officials directing Twitter to remove political commentary about the 2020 election from its platform.
“Deplatforming works,” boasted former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, who became notorious among Reddit users for her pro-censorship policies during her brief tenure as head of the company, in a tweet posted this week.
Google is attempting to find a new way to measure people’s skin tones, to prevent its products from becoming “biased” against “people of color,” according to a report in Reuters.
The antitrust subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee recently released five highly anticipated bills aimed at curbing the power of the Big Tech companies. The House is currently under the control of the Democrats, but these bills have been pitched as a bipartisan effort, led by subcommittee chairman Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) and ranking member Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO).
Despite recent saber-rattling on the lack of “robust oversight” over cryptocurrency by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Gary Gensler, the Commission has no plans to regulate cryptocurrency in 2021, according to its recently published rulemaking list.
The The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the official GOP body which works to elect Republican members of congress, will accept donations in cryptocurrency, members of the committee told Axios.
Google-owned YouTube has censored Reason, taking down a video from the leading libertarian magazine reporting on biohackers working on DIY coronavirus vaccines. Reason condemned the censorship but continued to defend the tech monopoly’s right as a “private company” to censor them.
Maggie VandenBerghe, a conservative filmmaker whose videos attacking the political left have gained millions of views and have been featured on Fox News and the Blaze, was banned from Facebook-owned Instagram earlier this week after reposting a tweet from journalist and author Jack Posobiec.
Wells Fargo, one of the largest retail banks in the United States, has shut down the bank account of Lauren Witzke, who ran as the Republican party candidate for U.S. Senate in the state of Delaware last year.
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, introduced a bill aimed at curbing tech censorship called the PRO-SPEECH Act last week.
The House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on antitrust has introduced five new bills aimed to curb anticompetitive practices in the tech industry. Although none of them directly address the tech issue of greatest concern to Republicans, censorship, the bills have been presented as a bipartisan effort to rein in the power of dominant Silicon Valley companies.
Twitter is facing accusations of inconsistency after allowing the sharing of a ProPublica report containing the leaked private tax information of billionaires, after it censored a New York Post story containing emails from Hunter Biden on the grounds that the information was “private.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg today, demanding answers on the nature of his collusion with NIAID director Anthony Fauci, following the recent publication of email conversations between the two men as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Facebook-owned Instagram is “fact checking” satirical posts about Anthony Fauci, and forcing users to delete them, according to reports.
El Salvador has become the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin (BTC) as a form of legal tender, under a new law championed by the country’s President, Nayib Bukele, and passed by the country’s Congress.
Twitter suspended the account of Mike Davis, founder and president of the Internet Accountability Project (IAP), in what the tech company later said was an “error” that has since been reversed. Davis accused the Masters of the Universe of running a “Marxist-styled Censorship Department.”
Republican activist and political candidate Laura Loomer ambushed Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey at a conference on Bitcoin in Miami this weekend, confronting him on the issue of his platform’s widespread political censorship and election interference.
Author Naomi Wolf, until recently known primarily for her left-wing feminist views, has been banned from Twitter for “vaccine misinformation.”
