Free Speech

Facebook recently took the opportunity in a new report to brag about how much content it has censored. The Big Tech company released its quarterly Community Standards Enforcement Report. Facebook VP of Integrity Guy Rosen noted in the report that in the first Quarter (Q1), which included January through March of 2021, that so-called “hate speech” on the platform “continues to decrease.”

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr declared that the burden of supporting the communications infrastructure should no longer be reliant on a telephone service model developed back in 1996: “We should start requiring Big Tech to pay its fair share.”

A physician’s message about low pediatric deaths from COVID-19 was blocked from Facebook for violating “community standards on spam.”

Antonio García Martínez said that Apple “was well aware” of what he wrote in his controversial but best-selling book Chaos Monkeys before hiring him. But Apple appears to have caved to pressure from liberal employees and cut ties with him.

Some dating sites will now make it easier than ever for people to treat their COVID-19 vaccine like a personality trait. The White House has turned to dating apps in an attempt to convince more people to take a COVID-19 vaccine. These dating apps “are offering various types of premium content such as boosts, super likes and super swipes to those who get vaccinated as well as ways for people to…

Google announced new warnings for Google Workspace to help users avoid so-called “offensive” and “gendered” words. The company introduced its “inclusive language” warnings in Google Workspace apps at its I/O Developer conference on Tuesday. Javier Soltero, Vice President of Google Workspace, offered as an example the word “chairman.”

Conservative talk show host Steven Crowder announced on his brand-new Rumble channel that he and his lawyer Bill Richmond filed a lawsuit last Thursday against video platform giant YouTube for suspending his channel for two weeks for allegedly violating their guidelines.

An Israeli legal scholar complained that YouTube twice censored his interview about Israel’s strikes against the terror group Hamas. Then YouTube gave conflicting accounts about why it censored him. The scholar said the takedown notice YouTube emailed him stated that a "team" of reviewers "think" the video violated the platform's guidelines. Yet, YouTube said in a public statement that its…

Liberals and Big Tech once actively suppressed the theory that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein appeared on Fox News to explain how the narrative appears increasingly probable.

Free speech-oriented alternatives like Rumble have grown in popularity as Big Tech companies like YouTube have increasingly censored conservative voices. And Rumble’s newfound popularity has particularly attracted the attention of a couple notable investors. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance have both made investments in the free speech-oriented video platform…

Facebook deplatformed a pro-Israel page with “75 million followers” after the page appeared to be the target of “anti-Semitic” attacks — flooding the page with one million comments that included photos of Hitler. Facebook shut down the pro-Israel page “Jerusalem Prayer Team” (JPT) after the page was allegedly targeted by “radical Islamic organizations." 

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, admitted he doesn’t know much about the First Amendment, but that didn’t stop him from calling it “bonkers” and blaming social media platforms for trying to “redefine what free speech means.” The Duke of Sussex criticized the commercialization of media, and the unfettered protections the First Amendment provides them, on an episode of actor Dax Shepard’s podcast “…

NewsGuard has found a new way to discriminate against conservatives while pretending to fight against so-called “misinformation” online. Liberal ratings firm NewsGuard has developed a service to “place ads on credible news sources.” Its system for determining whether a source is “credible” overwhelmingly favors left-wing news outlets. 

Apparently, America’s real war is within, according to Defense Department official and race hustler Bishop Garrison. He was tagged to lead a new program to spy on soldiers for “concerning behaviors” online.