Reddit has refused an appeal from r/The_Donald, the website’s 700,000-plus member community of Trump supporters, to lift a “quarantine” that limits the reach and visibility of posts from the community. The refusal comes just a day after Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) sent a letter to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about the platform’s bias.
Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to commit to protecting free speech during a hearing today before the House Financial Services Committee.
Massachusetts Democrat Daniel J. Hunt is driving a bill that would essentially make it illegal to call someone a “bitch” as part of his act “regarding the use of offensive words.”
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) has sent a letter to Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, highlighting political bias on his platform and demanding Reddit end censorship of “The_Donald,” a user-created pro-Trump community of over 750,000 members.
A recent report from security and privacy experts Tutanota, which bills itself as a Google alternative, outlines how mass surveillance has become commonplace online and the effect it has on free speech.
Venezuela’s freedom of speech was mutilated long ago. It wasn’t done overnight but, rather, carried out through a series of incremental steps that led us to this point.
Christian-led American family restaurant chain Chick-fil-A will lose its first British branch after lobbying by the LGBT community.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter, Bernice King, criticized Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for citing her father when defending his embattled social media platform.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech at Georgetown University yesterday in which he said the messages of politicians should not be censored on his platform — even though multiple conservative politicians remain blacklisted on Facebook.
Twitter recently stated that it will restrict how users can engage with tweets from world leaders, including President Donald Trump, if the company decides their tweets break the site’s rules. Other users will not be able to reply, like, or retweet Trump and other world leader’s tweets restricted in this way. The company will algorithmically bury the tweet, making them harder to find.
Apple cautioned show developers for its upcoming Apple TV+ streaming platform not to anger China as part of the company’s efforts to heal a rift with Beijing, according to a recent report.
Tech giant Google has reportedly blacklisted a pro-Hong Kong protester game from itsAndroid app store claiming that it is “capitalizing on sensitive events.”
Blizzard faced harsh criticism for appeasing China from U.S senators on both sides of the aisle this week.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has called for a national security panel to review TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co’s purchase of lip-syncing app Musical.ly over fears that the Chinese government is using TikTok to censor political content.
South Park escalated its criticism of the Chinese communist regime on Wednesday, with lead character Randy Marsh at one point saying “f**k the Chinese government.”
Russia’s state communications regulator announced on Tuesday that China and Russia will sign an agreement to cooperate in further censoring internet access for their citizens.
Tufts University announced this week that it will maintain its partnership with the Confucius Institute, a controversial organization backed by the Chinese government.
Why does Hollywood get a pass for completely retooling its entire industry to appease the Chinese, for offenses that make the NBA’s recent PR disaster look like a stubbed toe?
A majority of Americans believe that social media platforms are politically biased in the way they deliver news stories to their users, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.
A new poll revealed that almost 30 percent of Democratic college students want to ban “Make America Great Again” hats on their campus.
Elizabeth Warren joined rival Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard in opposition to Kamala Harris’ call for Twitter to ban President Trump’s account.
Michelle Malkin has submitted a request for government documents and communications pertaining to LAPD recruitment ads appearing on Breitbart.com.
Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, joined Dennis Prager on Wednesday’s edition of the latter’s eponymous radio program to discuss left-wing and partisan Democrat boycott and censorship campaigns directed against this news media outlet and endorsed by the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) top brass, including Police Chief Michel Moore.
Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow joined Mark Levin on Wednesday’s edition of the latter’s eponymous radio program to discuss the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Police Chief Michel Moore’s alignment with a left-wing and partisan Democrat censorship and boycott operation targeting Breitbart News.
Europe’s top court ruled this week that Facebook can be ordered by police to remove content illegal in Europe from its worldwide platform.
Wednesday night’s episode of South Park took Hollywood to task for meekly allowing China to censor its movies and TV shows in exchange for reaching that huge Asian audience and their money.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) cited the Twitter blacklisting of actor James Woods in her letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Tuesday, in which she demanded that President Donald Trump be kicked off the social media platform.
The ruling Liberal Party of Canada, whose leader and Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was recently outed for repeatedly wearing blackface, has pledged to force social media companies to remove “hate speech” within 24 hours if it wins the upcoming Canadian elections.
A prestigious Scottish university arranged an event titled “Resisting Whiteness” where white people were to be banned from speaking.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave an interview to the Daily Telegraph in which he revived the company’s infamous motto, “don’t be evil,” which was removed from the preface to Google’s code of conduct in 2018.
Technology companies’s political censorship is “the greatest threat to free speech and our democracy today,” wrote Donald Trump Jr.
Pray.com, the largest prayer app in the world, says that the popular Chinese-owned social network TikTok blacklisted it from running ads on the platform. The CEO of Pray.com says the company’s attitude “seemed malicious and unfair.”
Republican congressional candidate and U.S. Air Force veteran Anna Paulina Luna says censorship on Facebook-owned Instagram has hampered her campaign’s ability to collect donations.
Adland, a site set up in the 1990s to archive and publish commentary on commercials and advertising, was taken offline after a questionable copyright claim by tire company Bridgestone.
The German Bundesrat, the upper chamber of the German parliament, has proposed banning Germans from denigrating both the European Union flag and its national anthem.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) slammed Google-owned YouTube amid the platform’s contradictory statements on its censorship policies, calling on the platform to allow users to filter lawful content as they see fit instead of imposing top-down bans.
Internal documents from popular social media platform TikTok appear to show the company instructing moderators to censor political content on the platform that could anger the Chinese government.
Facebook recently stated that the site will not remove politicians’ posts that break the site’s rules for fear of “censoring or stifling political discourse.” According to one executive, “Freedom of expression is an absolute founding principle for Facebook.”
Professor James Flynn of the University of Otago in New Zealand claims that his upcoming book on free speech was “banned” by its publisher due to its content.
Facebook, in court filings defending itself from a lawsuit filed by activist and congressional candidate Laura Loomer, has cited its first amendment rights as a “publisher,” contradicting public claims by the company that its social media service is a platform.
