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Facebook CEO Takes ‘Anti-vax’ Stance

Facebook CEO Takes ‘Anti-vax’ Stance

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Is Twitter Violating Contractual Agreements When It Expels Users?

Is Twitter Violating Contractual Agreements When It Expels Users?

Lipton Matthews mises.org Lipton Matthews is a researcher, business analyst, and contributor to Merion West, The Federalist, American Thinker, Intellectual Takeout, mises.org, and Imaginative Conservative. Liberals rarely defend the property rights of corporations, so it is quite amusing that scores of them are arguing that social media companies

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Parler Slams Big Tech in Relaunch

Parler Slams Big Tech in Relaunch

Alexander Hall newsbusters.org The wildly popular free speech platform Parler has made a sudden return after being nuked from the internet by Amazon Web Services back in January. “Parler, the world’s #1 free speech social media platform with over 20 million users, is announcing its official relaunch today,

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When Corporations Become More Powerful Than the Government, Our Definition of “Big Brother” Needs to Change

When Corporations Become More Powerful Than the Government, Our Definition of “Big Brother” Needs to Change

Michael Snyder endoftheamericandream.com Throughout human history, our God-given liberties and freedoms have often been brutally crushed by oppressive governments, and that is still happening all over the world today.  But in our time, an additional threat to our liberties and freedoms has emerged.  Global corporations just continue to get

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Parler Is Back!

Parler Is Back!

On Monday the company announced that Parler is back online with a new interim CEO Mark Meckler. From next week you will be able to follow The BFD on Parler as new users won’t be able to sign up until next week. If you already have a Parler account,

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‘New Zealand Is Not North Korea’

‘New Zealand Is Not North Korea’

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The following was brought to my attention and is very hard to argue with: Extracted from the Feb 13 Economist’s leading article, How well will vaccines work? : For all these reasons, governments need to start planning for covid-19 as an endemic disease. Today they

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Facebook Tyrants Are Out of Control

Facebook Tyrants Are Out of Control

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Another Christian Group Cancelled

Another Christian Group Cancelled

Last week I wrote about Twitter cancelling conservative Christian group “Focus on the Family.” This week its YouTube’s turn. ReclaimTheNet reports. The YouTube channel for LifeSiteNews, a non-profit Christian news outlet, has been purged from the platform for “violating YouTube’s community guidelines.” “YouTube just completely removed the LifeSiteNews

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Facebook Caught between a Rockspider and a Hard Place

Facebook Caught between a Rockspider and a Hard Place

As reported on The BFD, Twitter has a strange habit of blatantly ignoring child abuse material on its platform, even when the victims directly report it. Apparently, child porn doesn’t go against their “community standards” in the same way that conservative politics does. Facebook is almost as assiduous as

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No Christian Terror – So Why Are Sermons Being Vetted?

In the last decade or so, there have been at least 11 Islamic terror attacks or thwarted plots in Denmark. There have been no Christian terror attacks. So which religion is the Danish government persecuting? Christian churches in Denmark will be required to translate and submit all sermons to the

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MediaWorks Machinations

MediaWorks Machinations

What is going on at MediaWorks? First, it was John Banks and now it’s Sean Plunket. It seems as if the company is trying to pre-empt the proposed hate speech laws and get in first. Their CEO Cam Wallace certainly seems to be intent on implementing a woke philosophy.

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Cancel Culture Is a Necessary Good

In the early days of cancel culture (c. 2016-2018) it was wise to oppose it, but few did. Now we’re well past the point of no return. The tide is coming in, and only a fool would dare to oppose it. During the early days, “build your own” was

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Can American Democracy Survive Big Tech?

Can American Democracy Survive Big Tech?

Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF

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