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
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
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
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
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
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,
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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
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
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
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
Alexander Hall newsbusters.org The wildly popular free speech platform Parler has made a sudden return after being nuked from the internet by Amazon Web Services back in January. “Parler, the world’s #1 free speech social media platform with over 20 million users, is announcing its official relaunch today,
Michael Snyder endoftheamericandream.com Throughout human history, our God-given liberties and freedoms have often been brutally crushed by oppressive governments, and that is still happening all over the world today. But in our time, an additional threat to our liberties and freedoms has emerged. Global corporations just continue to
On Monday the company announced that Parler is back online with a new interim CEO Mark Meckler. From next week you will be able to follow The BFD on Parler as new users won’t be able to sign up until next week. If you already have a Parler account,
