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
Before I ditched Facebook for good, I was often accused by people not on my friends’ list of being a “bot”. That was because, if a non-friend clicked on my profile, they would see nothing but a couple of profile pics – none of which were of my face. Contrary to
Even as Elon Musk’s SpaceX is achieving remarkable success in driving down the cost of space travel – in just a decade Musk has slashed the cost of getting a payload into orbit by 80% – new developments might make all his hard work redundant. Enter the Space Elevator. The idea
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. childrenshealthdefense.org Mexico’s socialist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known by his initials, AMLO, has condemned Silicon Valley’s social media titans for censoring free speech around the world. He has proposed a global coalition of the world’s Democratic governments to stand up
Corinne Weaver Alec Schemmel newsbusters.org Amazon Web Services filed a lawsuit on Jan. 12 that stated, “Compelling AWS to host content that plans, encourages, and incites violence would be unprecedented.” However, the platform has no problem hosting content on Amazon that says, “kill the rich” and glorifies the Columbine
