Now you can not only lose your job for having the “wrong” opinion but for using the “wrong” platform. Reclaim the Net reports: Colleen Oefelein, a former agent at The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, was fired after Twitter users complained that she was using anti-big tech platforms Gab and
Dr. Joseph Mercola articles.mercola.com In recent days and weeks, we’ve seen an unprecedented wave of censorship sweep across the internet. As noted by Coindesk.com,1 that we need a decentralized web is more evident than ever, and now’s the time to advance such plans: “Just
Eric Felten realclearinvestigations.com When Google-owned YouTube suspended Donald Trump’s ability to post videos it joined Facebook and Twitter in blocking the president, and many Trump supporters, from their platforms. Conservatives and others have denounced the moves as censorship. But the decisions by tech companies to refuse service to
Did you know that Johns Hopkins University recently deleted a video presentation on their youtube channel by one of their own Professors about covid-19 data? Did you know that a Dr. was threatened with being fired by a hospital for treating a patient with the hydroxychloroquine treatment? And that people
Kayla Sargent newsbusters.org Facebook may now label speaking out against transgenderism as “violence and incitement.” Facebook reportedly suspended a Bible professor for seven days following a post criticizing President Joe Biden’s new policies towards transgender individuals, and ironically, Facebook censorship. Houston Baptist University professor Dr. Robert A.J.
The Woke Womble of MediaWorks Cam Wallace cancelled John Banks for the crime of allowing Maori culture to be categorised as “stone age” on his radio show yet Cam Wallace allows Martyn Bradbury (who has the violent nickname Bomber) to regularly appear despite several recent posts on his blog inciting
righttolife.org.uk A Conservative MP is advancing a Bill to protect freedom of speech at universities from a “corrosive trend… that aims to prevent anybody from airing ideas that groups disagree with or would be offended by”. Last week, David Davis MP offered an impassioned defence of the importance
Looks like it’s time for service providers to remove Facebook from their servers and for Google to blacklist it from search results and remove Facebook apps from Google Play. No doubt Apple will ban Facebook from its App store. That’s how it works, isn’t it, if a
Waikanae Watcher waikanaewatch.org On Friday, Facebook carried out a purge of left-wing, antiwar and progressive pages and accounts, including leading members of the Socialist Equality Party. Facebook gave no explanation why the accounts were disabled or even a public acknowledgement that the deletions had occurred. At least a half
Strategic Infographics strategic-culture.org Public figures are being blocked by the social media giants for “violating community standards” which has become coded language for “we don’t like what you have to say on our platform”. Please share this article so that others can discover The BFD.
We all know by now that the biggest social media platforms, notably Twitter and Facebook, have done a sterling job of de-platforming anyone who is a conservative, even if they are moderate. It seems that the storming of the Capitol has given them the excuse they have been looking for
You’ll forgive me if I decline to take moralising lessons on democratic freedoms from billionaires whose corporations run on Chinese slave labour. At last year’s Academy Awards, Ricky Gervais reminded the audience that, while Apple made self-righteous TV shows “about the importance of dignity and doing the right
Horea Christian mises.org So, you’ve heard that big tech companies have transcended the niggling free market and reached the lofty heights of partisan politics — and act accordingly. Unlike prominent political figures you might not make the top of the purge list, but it’s no secret that censorship
