Censorship
Why I Don’t Want to Live in NZ
Recently I read a news item regarding the 2020 road toll here in Victoria. The numbers seemed very low to me. In Victoria, we had 213 deaths last year which some would say was low because of coronavirus restrictions. New Zealand had a lockdown as well, yet almost every time
Parler Takes Amazon to Court
On Monday night, Australia-New Zealand time, Amazon made good on its threat to purge Parler from the internet. In doing so, Amazon not only showed a glaring double standard, it also broke the terms of its own contract with the fledgling social media company. On Monday, Parler filed a
Twitter’s Stated Reasons for Banning Trump Are Even Worse Than You’d Think
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Leaked Documents Show How China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus
Raymond Zhong Paul Mozur Aaron Krolik The New York Times Jeff Kao ProPublica propublica.org This story was originally published by ProPublica SERIES:CORONAVIRUS The U.S. Response to COVID-19 ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon
Gab’s Statement on Apple and Google’s Tyranny
Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com If your business is built on the backs of Silicon Valley tyrants (Apple, Google, et al) they can and will attempt to destroy you if and when you become a threat to their interests. They did this to Gab. Then Fortnite. Now Parler. Terrible content
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
I was sent a copy of the below article published on the internet by a reader. I highlighted the article heading and did a Google search in order to quickly locate the website that had published it. This is what Google showed me… Frustrated by what appear to be censored
The Blood of Martyrs Is the Price of Religious Freedom
Donald Trump mercatornet.com President Trump has issued an official proclamation for the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket The martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170 is a landmark in English history. During the Middle Ages, until it was destroyed by agents of Henry
The End of Western Democracy
Western democracy, on life support for quite some time, finally died this week when supporters of US President Donald Trump “stormed” the Capitol in Washington, DC. We know it is dead, not because of the actions of President Trump or his supporters, but because reaction against them has finally borne
Amazon Shuts off Parler’s Servers Midnight Sunday
John Matze Founder/CEO of Parler and iPhone developer. Interested in friendly discourse. Las Vegas | Dad The media tried to claim that “The Insurrection” was organized on Parler. There are quite a few problems with this. 1) Parler has no way to organize anything, Facebook groups were used heavily to
Will You Help Us Secure a Better Future?
With the latest developments in the U.S. and the willingness of Big Tech to silence conservative voices, we have been forced to have a good long look at the roadmap for the continued development of The BFD. Given Big Tech’s assault on freedom, I’ve selected a few
Advancing Time
Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com When one of those so-called personal digital assistants started to babble the other day I cursed it and told it to “shut the f**k up.” That is when it happened, to my surprise the damn thing told me something to the effect, “I
What Is Section 230 and Why Do Trump and His Allies Want to Repeal It?
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is a libertarian-conservative writer, commentator, and activist. She’s a Newsmax Insider and a Contributor to The Washington Examiner. Section 230 simply says that only internet users are responsible for what they write, not the private companies whose websites host the commenters. In
Big Tech Launches Massive Coordinated Cyber Attack on 74,000,000 Trump Voters — GOP Silent
Cassandra Fairbanks thegatewaypundit.com On Friday, Twitter permanently banned hundreds, if not thousands, of Trump supporters and prominent allies — before banning the president himself. Nearly every account that helped to promote the Stop the Steal rallies or challenge the election results were banned, including Ali Alexander, Michael Coudrey, Gen. Mike
NZ Police Launch Social Media Snitch Unit
‘Trust us, we know what we’re doing’ is, sadly, not a motto that sits comfortably in the perception of NZ Police by the general public; think more, ‘Heavy-handedness is our thing’. So when the NZ Herald announced front-page on the 29th of December that police had set