Free Speech

The Department of Homeland Security reportedly investigated how TikTok handled material that detailed the sexual abuse of children. The Financial Times reported that the Department of Justice also reviewed how a privacy feature on the platform was exploited by predators.

Twitter suspended the popular account again just hours after it was reinstated. The account posts videos of radical liberals on TikTok on its Twitter page. Twitter suspended the account again for “abuse and harassment.”

Twitter chose to implement a “poison pill” method in response to Elon Musk’s offer to buy the platform and make it private for $43 billion. The platform’s board of directors issued a new “shareholder rights plan” in an effort to thwart Musk’s offer. The move is known as a “poison pill” and was aimed at preventing a hostile takeover.

The world’s richest man has a few tricks up his sleeve should Twitter’s board of directors reject his $43 billion offer to buy the company. Elon Musk says he has a backup plan for taking over Twitter. Musk spoke with Head of TED Chris Anderson during Session 11 of the TED2022 conference on April 14. Anderson asked Musk: “If in this case you’re not successful in that the board does not accept…

Twitter dealt harsher penalties to conservative U.S. political leaders and investigative news outlets than it does to Russian war propaganda. So, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) and six other House Republicans wrote a letter to Twitter demanding the company publicly address this flagrant double standard. 

Democrats recently released plans to fight “Online Misinformation” that featured a blueprint for online censorship. Congressional Democrats, however, have sponsored or co-sponsored at least 18 Big Tech bills with Republicans. That combination raises huge questions about their actual goals and could undermine bipartisan support.

Conservative lawmakers were optimistic about billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to purchase Twitter for $43 billion. The legislators slammed Twitter’s censorship in exclusive comments to MRC Free Speech America.

Talk show host Bill Maher and podcast legend Joe Rogan slammed the alliance of Big Tech and Cancel Culture for silencing debate about COVID-19.

It was the stock buyout heard ‘round the world. Tesla owner Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter could save the whole concept of online free speech and alter politics and elections globally for years to come. 

Twitter suspended a popular account that exposed radical liberals on TikTok. Seth Dillion, CEO of The Babylon Bee, reported that Libs of TikTok was suspended for violating Twitter’s rules against “hateful conduct.”

Rumble doubled down on its decision to allow RT to post on the platform. According to the Washington Examiner, YouTube previously banned RT at the beginning of March, when the Russian-owned news organization had over 4.5 million followers.

It’s Episode 33 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about how the professional networking site LinkedIn censored an Air Force veteran’s testimony of hard work and perseverance.

Clinton stooge Robert Reich seemed to forget the meaning of the word “contradiction” while attacking the world’s richest man’s libertarian views on the internet. The former Secretary of Labor scaremongered to his readers how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s “vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense.”

“I am close to a First Amendment absolutist,” former president Barack Obama said, even as he called misinformation potentially “fatal” and suggested “modifications” to online anonymity. The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg interviewed Obama at his left-wing mag's “Disinformation and Erosion of Democracy” conference. Obama more than once used seemingly pro-free-speech language…