North Dakota Bill Aims to Fight Big Tech Dominance: Report

February 15th, 2021 11:45 AM

While Congress and the Senate were wrapped up in impeaching and acquitting former President Donald Trump mostly along partisan lines (again), one state decided to take the issue of Big Tech dominance into its own hands.  A new North Dakota bill aims to fight Big Tech market power by no longer allowing app distribution platforms, like Apple or Google, to require a percentage of every sale. 

Rigged? Robinhood Shafts Users While Google Deletes 100k Bad Reviews

January 29th, 2021 3:20 PM

The Robinhood stock trading app stopped everyday Americans from profiting massively off the stock market this week. Now the Big Tech establishment has been defending the app from criticism.

Australia Takes On Google, Aims to Rein in Ad Dominance: Report

January 28th, 2021 3:54 PM

The land down under may have the upper hand on Big Tech by passing regulation that could disrupt Google’s dominance on advertising.

Big Tech Leaders, Corporations Slobber Over Biden’s Leftist Agenda

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January 22nd, 2021 9:33 AM

Not even a full day had gone by in President Joe Biden’s administration, and Big Tech had already taken to Twitter to do public relations for his leftist agenda.

Who, Me? Google Plays Innocent in Response to Texas Antitrust Lawsuit

January 19th, 2021 12:14 PM

Google is facing three separate antitrust lawsuits from the Department of Justice and  two different state coalitions. One month after the Texas v. Google lawsuit was filed, Google finally decided to respond to the allegations. The state attorneys general who brought the lawsuit against Google claim that the company maintains dominance in the online ad market “through an array of exclusionary…

Parler, Rumble File Suits Against Amazon, Google Respectively

January 12th, 2021 3:11 PM

The left is trying hard to shut down free speech-oriented social media platforms like Parler and Rumble. Now, these companies are fighting back. Parler and Rumble have filed suit against Amazon and Google respectively, in an apparent effort to fight Big Tech censorship.

Conservative Leaders: Tech Companies Pose Existential Threat

January 11th, 2021 3:54 PM

Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell and more than 30 conservative leaders issued a statement Monday calling for the breakup of Big Tech companies including Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple after their sweeping acts of censorship against conservatives and President Donald Trump this past week.

TRUMPED! Google PURGES Parler App; Apple Threatens to Remove It

January 8th, 2021 8:42 PM

Big Tech’s crusade against conservatives continued furiously Friday night. Google removed the Parler app from its store and Apple threatened to do the same. Free market advocates repeatedly told conservatives the solution to Big Tech censorship was building their own platform. Now Google has removed a free speech platform from its store, blocking millions from accessing the app. 

Google Clamps Down on Research into ‘Sensitive Topics’

December 29th, 2020 3:01 PM

Google has secured a tight grip around the research done by its staff, according to internal communications and other information obtained by Reuters. A new “sensitive topics” review procedure has, in at least three cases, “…

Trial Date Set for DOJ Antitrust Case Against Google: Sept. 2023

December 21st, 2020 4:14 PM

Good things come to those who wait, but it looks like Americans will be waiting a long time before the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google goes to court.

The judge in the Department of Justice’s case against Google has set a tentative trial date, but the trial may still be years away, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Google Now Facing Third Antitrust Lawsuit

December 18th, 2020 3:12 PM

The last few days have not exactly been full of joy and Christmas cheer for Google. 

One coalition of 38 states and territories and a separate coalition of 10 states have piled on in filing antitrust lawsuits against Google. The Department of Justice brought a third in an…

Weinstein on Institutional Tyranny: Maybe We Deserve Chinese Communism

December 18th, 2020 11:58 AM

The man who coined the term “Intellectual Dark Web” suggested that if the United States is willing to put up with institutional tyranny, “[t]hen maybe we deserve Chinese Communism.” Eric Weinstein opined that the United States might just “deserve Chinese Communism” in a tweet thread response to Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. Collison stated in a tweet that someone he knew had “useful COVID-…

Alan Dershowitz: ‘I Challenge YouTube to Take This Show Off Your Site’

December 11th, 2020 12:51 PM

“This show will make news. I challenge YouTube to take this show off your site, off your platform,” iconic civil rights lawyer and Constitutional Scholar Alan Dershowitz said in the latest episode of The Dershow on his YouTube channel.

Google Lifts Ban on Political Ads Before GA Senate Runoff Elections

December 10th, 2020 3:56 PM

Google has finally decided to lift its ban on political ads, just in time for the Georgia runoff elections. The search engine paused new political ads since Election Day for fear of misinformation, but it has now apparently decided to reinstate these ads just under a month before Georgia voters will decide which party will control the United States Senate.