Tag: Masters of the Universe

An op-ed in The Washington Post on Friday made the ethical case for Google’s plans to create a censored search engine to meet the demands of the Chinese Communist Party.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is reportedly considering a subpoena to get Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify about the embattled social media platform’s policies.

Avi Yemini, a Jewish-Australian IDF veteran, conservative political blogger and political candidate, has been banned from Facebook allegedly for publishing “hate speech.”

There is mounting internal pressure at Google over the company’s plans to introduce a censored search engine in China approved by the country’s communist regime.

Twitter has followed in Facebook’s footsteps by blocking a campaign video ad for Republican congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng. Facebook eventually admitted that a campaign video including the communist atrocities in Cambodia is not “shocking, disrespectful, or sensational,” but Twitter, which describes the ad as “obscene,” disagrees.

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is reportedly investigating Apple to see whether the company “improperly pressured” Yahoo Japan into shutting down a competitor to the iOS store.

CNN, who led the campaign to have Infowars blacklisted from nearly every social network and Big Tech platform, joined in the protest this week to call out President Trump for allegedly attacking the “free press.”

Social media platform Twitter has begun banning a large number of accounts from the website, specifically focusing on accounts that have previously been banned or have received suspensions.

Twitter has verified the account of recent New York Times editorial board hire Sarah Jeong, despite the fact that her wide variety of racist posts remains on the platform.

Brad Parscale, the 2020 campaign manager for President Trump, criticized Silicon Valley’s “stifling” effect on free speech this week, declaring, “They must be stopped from turning the Internet into Big Brother.”

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey performed an interview with NBC News recently where he discussed the issues his platform faces surrounding “election security” and the presence of Infowars host Alex Jones on the website.

The New York Times published a long-form article recently titled “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won” discussing a group of privacy activists that successfully passed a California bill protecting user privacy from tech giants.

Twitter has suspended Infowars host Alex Jones for seven days following a live broadcast in which Jones told his followers to prepare their “battle rifles” to defend themselves. The stream ironically was discussing social media censorship.

Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce have launched a campaign for restrictions on data sharing between hospitals to be dropped.

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.”

Members of the board of directors for Elon Musk’s Tesla were reportedly “totally blindsided” by the CEO’s tweets suggesting that he had funding secured to take the company private.

Facebook’s head of global news partnerships, Campbell Brown told Australian media executives that Mark Zuckerberg “doesn’t care about publishers,” according to a report in Murdoch-owned newspaper the Australian.

According to a recent report, advertising technology firms are increasingly being pushed out of the market by large tech firms led by Facebook and Google.

Netflix CFO David Wells is reportedly stepping down from his position at the company, which he joined in 2004.

While Facebook and Google are attempting to break into the Chinese market with agreements to abide by Chinese Internet laws and attempts to develop new China-centric apps, some aren’t convinced that the tech giants will be successful in developing a strong presence in China.

Google is reportedly tracking your physical movements with your smartphone even if you select privacy settings which are supposed to stop it from doing so.

Reports this week suggest that Amazon has plans to open a health clinic for its employees in Seattle.

CNN is continuing its effort to pressure Twitter into banning InfoWars, following the mass purge pushed by the news outlet this week.

An internal note from Facebook shows the company using a viral polling app as a “psychological trick” to attract teenagers to the platform.

An article was published in the Weekly Standard this week titled “The Case for Banning Alex Jones” aims to defend the Masters of the Universe almost unanimously blacklisting Alex Jones and Infowars from social media.

Following months of scandals and bad news, Facebook could soon lose its spot as the second largest website in the U.S. to YouTube, in what analysts describe as a “paradigm shift.”

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

Far left website Salon credited Jared Holt of Right Wing Watch, along with Matt Rivitz’s anti-conservative harassment campaign Sleeping Giants, for catalyzing the purge of Alex Jones and Infowars from major tech platforms earlier this week. Holt’s involvement appears to be motivated by jealousy — he stated, “I guess I was a little bit offended that Alex Jones was able to get on the air and I wasn’t.”

Apple has issued a statement defending its decision to allow the Infowars app to remain in its App store, despite banning the same content from its podcast directory.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey declared during his appearance on Sean Hannity’s radio show this week that Twitter sanctions users for their offline behavior too. This is nothing new — Breitbart News reported on the new rules in November 2017.

Despite the fact that most large technology services banned InfoWars from their platforms this week, they still refuse to cite what caused the bans.

Disqus, the popular user comments system, has banned InfoWars from using its service amid the Big Tech purge which has seen Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Apple podcasts, Spotify, Microsoft’s LinkedIn, and more ban Infowars and Alex Jones from their platforms.

InfoWars has become the number one trending app on the Google Play Store, following the mass purge of Infowars and Alex Jones from Big Tech platforms including Google’s YouTube, Facebook, and many others.

Last year, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai warned that it was Big Tech “edge providers,” such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook, are the real censorship threat, and not Internet Service Providers (ISPs) previously targeted under net neutrality.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended the company’s decision not to ban Alex Jones and Infowars’ accounts following a purge of Infowars accounts across Big Tech including Facebook, Spotify, Apple podcasts, and Microsoft’s LinkedIn. Dorsey says that Jones “hasn’t violated our rules,” and admitting “We’ve been terrible at explaining our decisions.”