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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
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
Pieter Verdegem University of Westminster Dr. Pieter Verdegem is a Senior Lecturer in Media Theory in the Westminster School of Media and Communication and a member of CAMRI (the Communication and Media Research Institute), University of Westminster. He is course leader for the MA Data, Culture and Society. His research
Amelia Thorpe Sophie Adams UNSW Declan Kuch Western Sydney University Amelia Thorpe is Associate Professor in Law at UNSW, working in the areas of planning, property and local government law, legal geography and urban studies. Her research centres on frameworks for decision-making in contemporary cities – who gets to have a
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
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
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
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This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
Pennel Bird libertynation.com Pennel bird is a writer, educator, musician, husband, and father who currently lives in Glendale, CA. He likes Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain. As a rogue wave of censorship breaks hard across the landscape of American life, two videos of doctors testifying under
I recently reported on a promising technology whereby processed spinach plants can be turned into carbon nanosheets, which can in turn be used to make batteries and fuel cells more efficient. In a neat and somehow appropriate twist, old batteries can also be recycled into plant food. An Australian recycling
Twitter is apparently able to hunt down and exterminate wrongthink with a single algorithm. Its censorship resolutely sniffs out conservative tendencies like a bloodhound on the scent. If they can’t outright ban everyone to the right of Marx using their byzantine “community standards”, Twitter will “shadowban” them – making sure
Matthew Tanous mises.org While some people are increasingly concerned about (and others cheer) the political implications of censorship on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, few have engaged in any analysis of how things reached this point and why social media companies seem universally of the same mind
WND reports on Twitter banning conservative Christian group “Focus on the Family”: It’s not just President Trump and the MyPillow guy Mike Lindell who are facing the wrath of Twitter in recent days. Now, the social-media giant has suspended Focus on the Family, an influential Christian-based family organization. The
