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
Editor: This article has been republished as the videos were missing for most of yesterday. As Editor of The BFD, I am always on the look out for alternatives on which to place our content because of the ongoing and increasing Big Tech censorship of conservative and right-wing voices. I
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.
Watching the slugging match between the legacy media and the Big Tech is somewhat akin to watching a 1970s kaiju movie play out in real-life. It’s Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla as the lumbering, old-media behemoth faces off against the shiny tech giants. The only question is, will the victorious monster
As Editor of The BFD, I am always on the look out for alternatives on which to place our content because of the ongoing and increasing Big Tech censorship of conservative and right-wing voices. I am currently looking for a video hosting platform to load our videos to but I
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
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
Alexander Hall newsbusters.org The hypocrisy is clear: Facebook will eliminate fringe supporters of former-President Donald Trump, Antifa radicals get the opposite treatment and get to operate freely on Facebook. Facebook’s Newsroom released an update proclaiming it had purged dangerous groups, but far-left orgs reportedly tied to violence continue
