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Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) slammed far-left Silicon Valley tech giant Twitter today for censoring his official account, which was locked after he referred to Rachel Levine, the transgender assistant secretary of health at the Department of Health and Human Services, as a man.

Emma Jo Morris said her reporting on Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” helpd alerts Americans of political censorship from Big Tech companies.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), the far-left British nonprofit currently waging a campaign of pressure against Facebook to force the social media giant to clamp down further against conservative media, is backed by a shadowy Swiss investment group that is funding communist China’s bid for global dominance.

Twitter hid a trailer for Tucker Carlson’s new documentary, Patriot Purge, behind a “sensitive content filter,” a tool that hides tweets behind a warning notice that users must click through in order to view the tweet.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a far-left British think tank dedicated to pushing internet censorship, has attempted to frame Breitbart News as the leading pusher of “climate change denial” on Facebook, only to be shot down by Facebook itself over its “flawed” methodology.

Yahoo, Inc. announced on Tuesday it has withdrawn its services from China, effective immediately – in fact, effective the previous day, November 1.

Twitter trolls and purveyors of “disinformation” will potentially face jail time in the UK under a series of anti-free speech measures.

A hard-left “news” site called Novara Media was briefly cancelled by YouTube. Among those calling most loudly for its reinstatement were the people it most hates: “right-wing” and “libertarian” media commentators. Why?

Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, commonly known as LegCo, on Wednesday passed a bill that empowers local officials to ban movies “deemed contrary to the interests of national security.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) slammed “Silicon Valley liberals” for targeting Breitbart News following news that Facebook introduced features which suppressed the traffic of Breitbart News and other conservative publishers by up to twenty percent.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) said on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that his sponsored legislation, the FREE Speech Act, would end Facebook’s political censorship of Breitbart News and other media outlets by repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and regulating Big Tech companies as “common carriers.”

In leaked internal messages, unhinged Facebook employees harshly criticized CEO Mark Zuckerberg for not censoring conservatives to the levels they feel are appropriate. One employee ominously wrote:  “History will not judge us kindly.”

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) responded to concerns that she just wants Facebook to censor people on the right more and will end up hurting free speech with her push for greater regulation of

The Wall Street Journal published a single slide from an internal Facebook file purporting to measure “trust” in news publishers on the platform, but the source who passed it to the newspaper included no details about the methodology used to collect the data, which users were surveyed, or who conducted the survey.

Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, condemned Big Tech for suppressing conservative voices following reports that Facebook introduced tools that suppressed the traffic of Breitbart News and other conservative publishers by double-digit margins.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said on Twitter today that leftists are pushing a fake “scandal” about Facebook making exceptions to its rules to justify censorship of conservatives.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed Facebook today in a comment to Breitbart News, arguing that it is playing favorites with political parties in the United States and should lose its Section 230 protections as a consequence.

Prominent Republicans reacted with outrage to news that Facebook introduced tools that suppressed the reach of Breitbart News and other conservative publishers on the platform, following the publication of Breitbart’s story earlier today.

The Wall Street Journal has published internal material from anonymous sources at Facebook revealing that the company introduced tools that suppressed the traffic of Breitbart News by 20 percent, and other conservative publishers by double-digit margins.

YouTube deleted an anti-Biden music video from conservative rapper Bryson Gray this past week for allegedly pushing “medical misinformation.” 

Twitter has reportedly locked Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) out of his account after he commented that the “title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man” in reaction to transgender assistant secretary of health for the HHS Rachel Levine being sworn in as a four-star admiral.

Boris Johnson’s government is claiming to “back freedom of speech to the hilt” even as it moves to prosecute tech bosses who fail to censor “foul content”.

Democrats censored a video Thursday prepared by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) showing parents participating in school board meetings, whom the Department of Justice began monitoring at the urging of a group that called them “domestic terroris[ts].”

The College Republicans student organization at Washington & Lee University (W&L) in Virginia was prevented from displaying campaign material referencing the Commonwealth’s upcoming gubernatorial election, according to the group’s president and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will create a new app called “InJobs” for the Chinese market, after it became embroiled in controversy by censoring the account of an Axios reporter for a profile containing “prohibited content” in the country.

“You cannot have a republic if you can’t have confidence in elections,” Mollie Hemingway, author of Rigged, said on Sunday.

GoFundMe has taken down a $180,000 fundraiser for a Texas nurse seeking to overturn a coronavirus vaccine mandate, claiming it violated their policy against vaccine “misinformation.”

Members of the Swedish Muslim Nyans Party have called for a sculpture by recently deceased Mohammed cartoonist Lars Vilks to be burned.

Black transgender comedian Flame Monroe has stepped out in support of comedian Dave Chappelle amid the leftist outrage over his Netflix special The Closer.

A speech by former Cabinet minister and Tory leadership contender David Davis MP against vaccine passports has been wiped from YouTube for “contradict[ing] expert consensus”.

Google-owned YouTube appeared to permanently ban, then reinstate the account of the American Principles Project, a conservative and pro-family advocacy organization, the latest in a recent wave of rapid-fire bans and reinstatements by the Masters of the Universe.

Google-owned YouTube reinstated the account of Trump-endorsed Washington State congressional candidate and former Green Beret Joe Kent earlier this week, after his channel was terminated by the Masters of the Universe.

Google and its video-sharing platform YouTube announced this week that they will now prohibit the monetization of accounts that post videos and content that is skeptical of manmade climate change.

Following the testimony of far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen before Congress, the social media giant has called for lawmakers to impose “standard rules” across the internet.

A Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, is set to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee tomorrow. She’s far from the first Big Tech whistleblower to expose Silicon Valley’s inner workings — but she is one of the first to call for more censorship, not less. That’s probably why the establishment media has embraced her with open arms.

The Wall Street Journal has revealed the identity of the Facebook whistleblower who provided many of the documents that made up the publication’s Facebook Files series.