Censorship - Page 25

Twitter has once again suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from its platform, this time hitting her with a one-week ban for coronavirus “misinformation.” Twitter has repeatedly censored Greene and appears to be headed towards a permanent blacklisting of her account. 

Google has admitted to removing ads from an article by Piers Morgan on the website of the Daily Mail, one of Britain’s most widely-read newspapers, due to what the tech giant alleged were “racist” comments below the line of the article.

Facebook-owned Instagram recently suspended Jamaican gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah from its platform after she posted videos of her own Olympic 100 and 200-meter race wins. The Masters of the Universe now call her suspension a “mistake.”

A professor of pediatrics and molecular virology urges criticisms of Dr. Anthony Fauci and other government scientists to be prosecuted as hate crimes.

Silicon Valley tech giant Youtube has banned the centre-right Sky News Australia network from uploading video content.

A court in Germany has ruled that Facebook illegally removed the posts and account of an unnamed author, because it did not inform the user of why the posts had been taken down.

Twitter is claiming that the real reason it banned six accounts dedicated to the audit of 2020 election ballots in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania is because the accounts were “spamming” the platform.

Twitter has suspended several accounts focused on ballot audits in the states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on the same day that that Congress begins partisan Democrat-led select committee hearings on the events of January 6th.

Self-censorship to evade “cancel culture” amounts to “doing the tyrant’s work for him,” Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee, said.

Republican sent a letter to the President Joe Biden administration demanding answering on the White House’s “censorship program” with private companies to “undermine free speech [the companies and the White House] don’t agree with.”

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) reacted to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s claim that Facebook is both a public platform and a private company, stating, “You can’t have it both ways.”

Google-owned YouTube censored the channel of FRC Action — the legislative affiliate of the Family Research Council (FRC), a socially conservative think tank — over a video discussing the Washington DC City Council’s decision to allow schools to vaccinate children against coronavirus without parental consent.

Google-Owned YouTube has reportedly censored videos from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s channel for allegedly spreading coronavirus misinformation. The Masters of the Universe claimed that a “careful review” of Bolsonaro’s channel resulted in censoring videos that disagree with world health experts.

Social media website Twitter is reportedly testing a new downvote feature for tweet replies. The feature seems to be part of Twitter’s ongoing search for “conversational health,” as the feature will help the platform “understand the types of replies you find relevant in a convo, so we can work on ways to show more of them.”

Twitter has once again suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), claiming that she violated the site’s policy against posting “misleading information” related to the coronavirus pandemic. The temporary suspension is yet another enforcement action by Twitter against Greene, several of which the platform described as “Mistakes.”

Elon Musk’s Tesla recently asked China to use its censorship powers to shut down criticism of its products on social media, according to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek.

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has “protected” its Twitter account — hidden its tweets from public view — in the wake of a controversy last week over its effort to censor a book that is critical of transgenderism among girls.

On Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted that the administration is identifying posts to Facebook that contain “misinformation” about coronavirus vaccines and is in “regular touch” with the Masters of the Universe. Psaki specifically admitted that the administration is flagging “problematic” posts to Facebook.

The effort to ban Abigail Shrier’s book is a shocking attack on freedom in America — and the chaos of South Africa is where it leads.

According to data released by Twitter, the social media platform saw a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets. Legal demands to censor content from verified journalists and outlets grew by 26 percent in the second half of the year.

YouTube has reinstated a video it censored of a school board meeting in Lake Forest, Illinois, which featured several concerned parents speaking out against mask mandates on their children.

Britons who commit “online racism” will be barred from attending football matches Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday.

Amazon employees have reportedly resigned in protest of the company’s decision to continue to sell a book that criticizes the transgender agenda for American girls. Workers have also signed a petition to censor books such as Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier.

Twitter has admitted it added its verification checkmark, meant to ensure the public that an account is authentic, to a number of fake accounts run by bots. The platform’s shoddy verifications come after the blacklisting of high profile conservatives such as James O’Keefe, who before his banning was refused verification by the platform despite a constant flow of fake accounts mimicking him to confuse the public.

Monday, FNC host Tucker Carlson opened his program warning Big Tech and some Democrats have their eyes on broadening their control of speech in the name of COVID-19, which could include private communications.

After Schmidt submitted his article to the Kansas City Star, he was told the publication would not accept a “straw man argument.”

Google-owned YouTube took down a video featuring Donald Trump from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), locking the organization’s account for one week and preventing them from posting more videos from the conference.

While thousands of Cubans were taking to the streets on Sunday to demand an end to the 62-year-old communist regime and the hashtag #SOSCuba was trending, Twitter falsely described the hashtag as “People are helping to spread awareness on the impact of COVID-19 in Cuba as cases hit an all-time high in the country.”

A report from independent journalist, author, and filmmaker Mike Cernovich detailing the link between the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a group that demonizes and dehumanizes conservatives, and a far-left mass shooter appears to have been scrubbed from Google search results.

Facebook failed to transfer a key exception to its rules on censoring discussion about “dangerous individuals” to an new system, leading to the guidelines effectively being “lost” for two years, according to an investigation from the company’s quasi-independent “oversight board.”

Facebook has reportedly begun serving a prompt to some users, seemingly primarily conservatives, asking them if they are worried that they — or someone they know — might be becoming an “extremist.”

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.

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.

J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, joined Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow for a wide-ranging interview Monday addressing the leftist frameworks of “critical race theory” and “white privilege,” growing consolidation of power within multinational corporations, and the political establishment’s neglect of working-class Americans.

A Hong Kong LGBT film festival pulled a Taiwanese documentary from its lineup in recent days after Hong Kong government authorities censored parts of the feature, local news outlet Coconuts Hong Kong reported on Monday.