Censorship

Rumours, falsehoods, and hate speech should be suppressed by social media, according to a World Economic Forum “freedom of the press” panel.

Ireland’s leftist president has decried the purchasing of social media companies by billionaires as a “form of dictatorship” on a TV station owned by the Irish state.

Twitter recently announced a new policy to prevent alleged “misinformation,” stating that tweets containing what it considers false information during an active crisis will be hidden on the platform.

Former Congressman Devin Nunes, who now runs Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform, told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow that not having “basic communications,” such as a digital public square, is a “recipe for disaster,” and fosters a “propaganda war,” such as the one happening online due to big tech censorship.

The streaming giant Netflix inserted an anti-censorship section into its newly-revised company culture memo that has largely been interpreted as a warning to the company’s vocally woke minority. It comes months after employees launched a woke #NetflixWalkout to protest Dave Chappelle.

DHS “Disinformation Governance Board” Director Nina Jankowicz, better known as the Biden administration’s Minister of Truth, says Twitter should allow verified users like her to edit other users’ tweets to “add context.”

A conservative student at the University of North Texas was suspended from Twitter after posting video footage of protests and information pertaining to students allegedly vandalizing her apartment and threatening her on campus.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) is leading an inquiry into whether President Joe Biden’s “Disinformation Governance Board” is pressuring big tech companies to increase their surveillance and censorship of conservative users, according to a letter exclusively obtained by Breitbart News.

Twitter co-founder and free speech failure Jack Dorsey recently agreed with Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO said that the platform’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump permanently was “morally wrong and flat out stupid.” According to Dorsey, he blacklisted Trump after making a “business decision.”

London’s leftist Mayor joined the long list of political figures queuing up to tell Elon Musk how Twitter should be run if he buys it.

The Attorneys General for Louisiana and Missouri have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden for allegedly colluding with big tech social media companies to censor conservatives under the guise of combatting “misinformation.”

Nina Jankowicz, director of the Disinformation Governance Board, endorsed the idea of the government setting minimum speech standards for content online and fining social media companies.

Joe Biden’s new Minister of Truth, Nina Jankowicz, has been caught telling another whopper: claiming that leftists and “marginalized communities” are censored more often than conservatives on social media.

Ireland’s President Michael D Higgins has suggested that Elon Musk loosening speech restrictions on Twitter would be “incredible and dangerous narcissism”.

A survey done by Germany’s pro-censorship federal government has found that almost half of people in the country feel that accusations of racism and “political correctness” can stifle free speech.

Nina Jankowicz, the leader of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new Disinformation Governance Board expressed fears of “free speech absolutists” like Elon Musk taking over social media platforms — after she was hired by the government.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) this week introduced a bill designed to dissolve the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board, deeming it unconstitutional in nature. 

British parliamentarians have summoned billionaire Elon Musk over his acquisition of Twitter and his plans to revive free speech.

Facebook, which has rebranded itself “Meta,” published a “compliance report” on Tuesday that said 24.6 million pieces of content were censored in India in March. Another 2.7 million pieces of content were deleted on the Instagram platform.

Florida congressional candidate Laura Loomer, represented by former Congressman Bob Barr, has filed a RICO case against Twitter, alleging that tech companies engage in racketeering behavior when they blacklist prominent users and politicians from their platforms.

Twitter will have to turn over emails, texts, voicemails, and other communications pertaining to the permanent blacklisting of former New York Times science writer and skeptic of official coronavirus policies Alex Berenson from the platform, in a legal blow to the leftist-run platform.

A Flemish MEP has warned the EU “does not want free speech” after a European Commission official threatened Elon Musk over his takeover of Twitter.

The mayor for the city region of Liverpool, England has claimed advertisements on buses promoting an appearance by American evangelist Reverend Franklin Graham constitute “hate speech” and should be removed.

Elon Musk said Friday people on the far left had a deep dislike for others and themselves but added he was not a fan of the far right.

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed the company reinstated the New York Post’s account “almost immediately” despite the fact the account was suspended for 16 days after reporting on the contents of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop from hell.

Almost a third of Swedes say they are for banning political demonstrations that are offensive to sections of the community following multi-day riots over Easter sparked by anti-Islam protesters burning copies of the Qur’an.

Nina Jankowicz, the chair of the new Disinformation Governance Board in the Department of Homeland Security, wanted Facebook to censor Breitbart News, joining the left’s calls for Silicon Valley to censor conservative news outlets in 2019.

Democrats only understand the danger of their own totalitarian ideas, like a “disinformation” agency, when the partisan shoe is on the other foot.

Leftists clutched their pearls all throughout Wednesday after billionaire Elon Musk called out Twitter’s top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, for her censorship policies within the company.

While the world’s attention is focused on Shanghai after four weeks of an insanely harsh coronavirus lockdown, a viral video produced this week documented some 30 million residents of smaller Chinese cities living under comparably hideous conditions.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) dared billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday to “open the books” when he takes control of Twitter and expose the censorship inside.

Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde reportedly cried during a company meeting on Monday in response to Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform. 

Another big tech clampdown on free speech online appears to be forthcoming after the European Union agreed in principle more online censorship laws on Saturday.

The Internet Archive is the product of seeming noble goals: to provide a free, online archive of all publicly available information. Its stated mission, per its About page, is “Universal Access to All Knowledge.” Like many Silicon Valley entities, however, the ideals of the Internet Archive end when a mainstream leftist journalist like infamous crybully Taylor Lorenz feels uncomfortable.

Silicon Valley giant Twitter censored a Shakespearean scholar in Britain for quoting a famous line from the Bard’s Henry VI, Part 2.

Barack Obama, in a speech on Thursday calling for more regulation of social media content, described himself as “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist” but immediately clarified that it does not apply to social media companies.

Jack Dorsey has been talking a good game on the platform he co-founded recently, taking snipes at CNN’s Brian Stelter, criticizing the Twitter Board’s response to Elon Musk’s takeover attempt, and dropping hints that he actually, really, genuinely cared about free expression after all. It’s sad to see so many on the right taken in by it.

Chinese state media on Tuesday reportedly deleted an article published on Monday in which China’s top coronavirus expert, Zhong Nanshan, argued that China needs to abandon the ruling Communist Party’s Chinese coronavirus policy of “zero-Covid” and join the rest of the world in “reopening” to live a post-pandemic life, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

Chinese censors on Monday deleted a social media post listing over 150 people who purportedly died in Shanghai because of the coronavirus lockdown – not from the virus itself, but from other medical conditions they could not obtain treatment for, or because they committed suicide.

Sina Weibo, the heavily censored Chinese alternative to banned Twitter, appears to have banned a hashtag that quotes the Chinese national anthem to criticize coronavirus lockdowns. It also appears to have blocked searches for the lyrics to the anthem.