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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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Tech Talk: Plex TV
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Tech Talk: Plex TV

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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Incitement of Violence

Incitement of Violence

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IPTV and Cutting the Cable
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IPTV and Cutting the Cable

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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Censorship INC. – YouTube Memory Holes COVID Treatment Videos

Censorship INC. – YouTube Memory Holes COVID Treatment Videos

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

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Using Batteries to Make Plants Grow

Using Batteries to Make Plants Grow

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

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No Conservatives, But Child Porn Is Ok with Twitter

No Conservatives, But Child Porn Is Ok with Twitter

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

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Why Social Media Takes a ‘Ban First, Ask Questions Later’ Approach

Why Social Media Takes a ‘Ban First, Ask Questions Later’ Approach

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

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Christian Lobby Group Cancelled for Stating a Fact

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

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The Real Story behind the Firing of the Parler CEO

The Real Story behind the Firing of the Parler CEO

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The Antisemitic Commentators of Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Antisemitic Commentators of Holocaust Remembrance Day

Judy Maynard aijac.org.au Each year on 27 January – the day the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated – the world remembers and honours the victims of one of the greatest crimes against humanity by observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day. One-third of the Jewish people and millions of members of other

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Now They’re Coming for the Zuck

Now They’re Coming for the Zuck

As the ghost of many a commissar would attest, today’s denouncer is as likely to face the firing squad tomorrow. Even Robespierre eventually found out what it was like to end up a victim of his own Terror. Not even attempted suicide saved him from the guillotine. Nazi boot-boy

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Veggie Tales in Your Inbox

As the Scarecrow said, in The Wizard of Oz, “Some people with no brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t they?” And, as anyone who’s ever worked an office job knows, an awful lot of emailing. Now, literal vegetables are sending emails. (I’m sure there’s

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Actually, There Is an Alternative

Actually, There Is an Alternative

Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it, and

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