Technology
Cancel Culture Is Awakening a Conservative Parallel Society!
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How Facebook’s Ban Could Change the Business of News
Fan Yang Deakin University Robbie Fordyce Monash University Facebook’s “news ban” in response to Australia’s proposed media bargaining code, has been hard to miss if you’ve spent any time on social networks recently. The social media platform has effectively halted all posting of links from Australian news
A Warning from the Unverified
Chris Sellars A mate of mine once remarked that ‘no good deed goes unpunished‘. There is only one thing worse than being right about such things. That is having a friend who is right about such things. In this particular case, the good deed never did eventuate. The good intention
Why Competition Is the Antidote to Big Tech’s Bad Behaviour, Not Politicians
Kimberlee Josephson fee.org Dr. Kimberlee Josephson is an Assistant Professor of Business and the Associate Dean for the Breen Center for Graduate Success at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. Since the start of 2021, debates about hosting sites, web services, and social media bans have drawn attention from
Government Won’t Save Us from Big Media
Dale Steinreich mises.org Dale Steinreich is an economist and an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute. A sitting US president is suspended from Twitter, Facebook, and email service provider Campaign Monitor. A pillow entrepreneur not only loses his personal and business Twitter accounts but also ten retail stores for
Facebook Has Pulled the Trigger on News Content
Diana Bossio Swinburne University of Technology Diana Bossio, Lecturer, Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology Facebook this week made good on its threat to block Australians from accessing or posting news content. The ban includes blocking links to Australian and overseas news publishers. Facebook said the ban was a
Big Brother Is Spying on You in Thousands of Ways, And All of That Info Now Goes into Centralized “Fusion Systems”
Michael Snyder endoftheamericandream.com Big Brother is watching you. Sadly, most people don’t realize how extensive the surveillance grid has now become. As you drive to work or to school, license plate readers are systematically tracking where you travel. In major cities, thousands of highly advanced security cameras (many
News Ban Blows up in Facebook’s Face
When the Chinese Communist Party brought the ban-hammer down on Australian exports, from wine to barley, they no doubt expected it to be the short, sharp shock “disrespectful” Australia needed. Instead, it was Beijing which was shocked. Far from folding immediately and begging for forgiveness (and money) from China, the
Facebook CEO Takes ‘Anti-vax’ Stance
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Hypocrisy: Veritas Vid Shows Zuckerberg Speculation on COVID Vaccines Facebook Won’t Allow
Alexander Hall newsbusters.org Project Veritas showed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried about the “long-term side effects” of COVID-19 vaccinations. Those same comments wouldn’t be allowed on his own platform. It’s even unclear whether Facebook will censor this story about his concerns. Guerrilla journalism group Project Veritas shared
The Zuck Goes Nuclear on Australia
The war between Big Tech and the Australian government is heating up. First shot fired was Google threatening to pull its services from Australia entirely. Now Facebook has gone nuclear and canned all local and international news. The move is the latest in the high-stakes standoff against the Morrison government’
Weighing up the EV Choice
Info from Manhattan Institute Our wonderful Climate Commission Planners, aka CCP, have decided that we are all going to drive electric vehicles (EVs) in the next few years. We know there is not enough electricity to power their dreams but they could copy a plan for that eventuality. However, they
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