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Big Tech and news media companies toe the line of the Chinese Communist Party to protect access to China’s market of 1.4 billion subjects, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News on Tuesday.

Big Tech companies should be regulated as telecommunications companies are to combat political censorship, Rep. Jason Smith said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

Big Tech coordinates with the abortion industry to censor “pro-life voices,” Lila Rose, president of Live Action, said on Sunday.

Big Tech companies need to be broken up to end monopoly control and protect free markets, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has taken it upon itself to flag multiple Twitter accounts sharing Donald Trump statements, according to its own reporting.

Jen Psaki said Joe Biden believes that social media companies have the “responsibility” to block questionable content.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intends to sign a bill banning social media companies from “deplatforming,” “shadow banning,” and “censoring” users.

The Hungarian government has warned against Big Tech oligarchs’ moves to dominate the public square online through the arbitrary and opaque enforcement of community guidelines — in their view, a kind of “pseudo legal system”. 

Defeating left-wing “cancel culture” requires a reciprocal approach from the right, determined Mike Cernovich, author and journalist.

Steve Scalise said “cancel culture” advocates ignore “far-left media” who “inspired” the shooter who attempted to murder him in 2017.

“We think we’ve absolutely got a case that will win,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Wednesday, referring to the Lone Star state’s antitrust lawsuit against Google alleging abusive monopolistic practices in the digital advertising business.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Google’s dominance of Internet advertising is the financial heart of the company’s other monopolies.

Google has personal information on political opponents that can be weaponized, warned Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Poland’s new Freedom Act against Big Tech censorship will see members of the public automatically notified of “shadowbans” and empowered to overturn restrictions if their speech online is lawful.

Social media giant Twitter suspended the main account of Spanish populist party VOX this week after the party launched a new campaign to push back against Islamisation.

The Hungarian government has confirmed that it will legislate against Big Tech censorship online, declaring that “we must fight for our digital freedom!”

Poland is legislating to protect freedom of speech on online platforms, government minister Sebastian Kaleta told Breitbart News. 

Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister has called on the U.S. to protect “every citizen” from Big Tech censorship on social media, as his own country prepares new laws enforcing free speech standards online.

Members of the national-conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI), including its firebrand leader Giorgia Meloni, have railed against big tech censorship and demand regulation to protect free speech.

“It starts with banning words,” said Jocko Willink, warning of totalitarianism in the context of today’s growing digital censorship.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton described last Wednesday’s “attack on the Capitol” as a function of “white-supremacist grievances fueled by Donald Trump.”

Facebook on Monday blocked former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) from managing his own Facebook page.

The computer technician whose services Hunter Biden procured for laptop repair and data recovery, said Twitter destroyed his business by calling him a hacker.

YouTube has deleted talkRADIO from the platform, with some speculating this follows the broadcaster taking a critical stance on lockdowns.

The Irish government has proposed making it a crime to share ‘hate’ comments on social media platforms even if someone else wrote of them.

Alan Dershowitz dared YouTube to censor him for interviewing Breitbart’s Joel Pollak, author of “Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News that Big Tech’s political censorship amounted to election interference, offering her comments on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

An Iranian court sentenced the CEO of Aparat, a video-sharing website similar to YouTube, to ten years in prison this month for “encouraging corruption” after an Aparat user uploaded a video to the platform last year that authorities in the Islamic Republic deemed “vulgar.”

David Morey, an informal political consultant for Joe Biden’s campaign, said he was “sympathetic” to Twitter and Facebook as “adjudicators.”

Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has stated that news websites, along with social media companies, could be forced to obtain government licences to operate in Canada.

Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga has announced that she will be starting an investigation into censorship of political views on social media in Hungary and across Europe.

President Trump retweeted a Breitbart News story about Facebook’s blacklist of prominent conservatives including Paul Joseph Watson. Good.

Instagram removed a cartoon posted by Babylon Bee founder Adam Ford for “hate speech,” Wednesday.

Twitter’s Director of Public Policy and Philanthropy froze during a hearing, Wednesday, after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled him on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s previous declaration that the social network is not a neutral platform.

The U.K. government has revealed a set of planned “extreme” measures to sanction tech companies which fail to remove “harmful content” online, including terrorist content, self-harm, bullying, and child pornography, but also “extreme pornography,” “trolling,” and “disinformation.”

The British government has published an Online Harms White Paper outlining a series of sweeping new controls on the Internet, which will see social media firms required to police users’ actions or face stiff penalties.