Tag: Censorship

Mastercard has reportedly forced Patreon to shut down the account of conservative author and “Jihad Watch” owner Robert Spencer.

In an article echoing similar sentiments from other publications, Asian publication the Diplomat has published an opinion piece which claims that “Facebook’s Plan to Enter China Is Doomed to Fail.”

A professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government is calling for universities not to honor or hire Trump administration officials, essentially blacklisting them from opportunities to engage with the academic community.

Elizabeth Heng, the Republican nominee running to represent California’s 16th Congressional District, said Facebook is “censoring the voices of Americans” with non-leftist views.

A majority of Brits do not think Boris Johnson should be disciplined for mocking the Islamic burqa but do think free speech is under threat, a new survey reveals.

In an article for the Washington Post, Thursday, columnist Josh Rogin claimed Google’s partnership with the Chinese government for censored search is “evil” and “bad for business.”

Contents: Discontent with China’s president Xi Jinping continues during ‘trade war’; Backlash from the U.S.-China ‘trade war’; China uses increasing violence to suppress criticism

Senior Tory Brexiteer MPs on the right of the party are revolting against the politically correct investigation of Boris Johnson for joking about the burqa, with one threatening a “civil war”.

One of the UK’s most famous comedians has defended Boris Johnson’s “joke” about the Islamic burqa face veil, calling it “funny” and “an almost perfect simile”.

Google is reportedly using a Chinese site that it owns to create a blacklist for its censored search engine in China.

YouTube comic Markus ‘Count Dankula’ Meechan has vowed to defy the Scottish judiciary after his attempts to appeal a conviction for teaching his girlfriend’s pug dog to respond to “grossly offensive” commands as a joke.

Dr. Robert Epstein, the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and a veteran of Breitbart News’ “Masters of the Universe” town hall on Internet freedom, joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss the simultaneous banning of Infowars host Alex Jones by most major social media platforms.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has urged citizens to defend free speech in the West after big tech firms allegedly coordinated to remove right wing voices, including Infowars and Tommy Robinson, from social media in a 12-hour period.

Anti-grooming gang activist and independent journalist Tommy Robinson says he has been purged from Instagram, and fears parent company Facebook Inc. will erase his presence next.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is calling on social media monopolies to “do more than take down one website,” meaning take down more websites on top of InfoWars.

The backlash to a coordinated burst of censorship against InfoWars includes non-conservative commentators who warn that Apple, Google, Facebook, and other tech companies have set a precedent to suppress marginalized groups.

Radio host Alex Jones blasted Republicans Monday for their handling of congressional hearings on Internet censorship after Silicon Valley corporations banned Infowars from their platforms in a coordinated burst.

Internet provocateur and InfoWars proprietor Alex Jones is being systematically excluded from social media platforms. This is, plainly, an attack on free speech.

Conservative media icon Matt Drudge is once again vindicated after Google and Facebook purge InfoWars and Alex Jones.

The Masters of the Universe at Facebook and Apple have taken steps to censor InfoWars pages and podcasts from their platforms, both claiming Alex Jones engages in “hate speech.”

The Vatican waded into the raging debate on the use of online algorithms Saturday, warning the faithful that social media and online services can make use of their personal data for “manipulative purposes.”

Jim Jordan told Breitbart News in an interview that social media giants “cannot say they’re an open platform” and then restrict free speech.

Tommy Robinson has revealed more details of his wrongful imprisonment to American conservative Tucker Carlson, describing how he was sited opposite the prison mosque and admitting he has been diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Unless Robinson is lying – which I doubt – this is the only logical conclusion to be drawn from the accounts he gave to Rebel Media’s Ezra Levant and Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. 

Left-wing activist group Fight For The Future has condemned censorship by Facebook following the removal of a number of left-wing protest pages allegedly linked to Russian actors.

Spotify has pulled multiple episodes of InfoWars host Alex Jones’s podcast for violating their rules on “hate speech,” the company has revealed.

Tory Remainer Damian Collins, chairman of Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport committee, is pushing for a raft of levies and restrictions on social media to prevent the spread of so-called ‘fake news’.

UKIP has accused Twitter of “shadow banning” Gerard Batten, the party’s leader and the elected representative for London in the European Parliament.

The #MeToo movement struck China this week as accusations of sexual assault and misconduct spread across social media and reportedly took aim at prominent activists, intellectuals, and a television personality.

Twitter banned the account of a pro-Trump grassroots campaign with 15 state field directors, failing to reinstate the accounts on the same day that the company came under fire from the president himself for discrimination against conservatives.

Twitter manipulates the visibility of its users based on who has chosen to block or mute them, the company admitted in a Thursday blog post — raising further questions about ideological bias in how the tech giant chooses which accounts set the standard for “conversational health.”

Twitter admits in an official company blog that your posts will be hidden if you follow the wrong accounts — but it continues to evade transparency on how it determines good and bad accounts. Conservatives continue to be hardest hit by the algorithm changes, while the company insists that it has no ideological bias.

Twitter’s sinister push to improve “conversational health” creates a feedback loop that rewards bogus “abuse” reports.

Facebook admits it blocked Florida State Rep. Matt Caldwell’s (R-79) pro-Second Amendment ad, issued an apology amid backlash, and allowed the ad to run.

Public outrage over the distribution of substandard child vaccines in China has grown to the point where heavy-handed censorship is being mixed with the government’s appeals for calm.