Censorship Project

YouTube censored a formerly transgender person who revealed the hazards of sex change operations and how they should not be pushed on children. YouTube removed a video from The Heritage Foundation’s YouTube channel, citing its “hate speech policy,” according to The Federalist. Walt Heyer, who expressed regret for his own transgender years during a panel at the “Summit on Protecting Children…

Big Tech and the news media have once again revealed that liberals can’t take a joke. A video tweeted by Donald Trump parodying CNN coverage has been labelled by Twitter as manipulated media. President Donald Trump tweeted a Carpe Donktum video depicting a fake CNN headline that states, "TERRIFIED TODLER [sic] RUNS FROM RACIST BABY." 

Facebook declared Thursday that it would censor ads run by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on “organized hate.” The ads, which condemned Antifa rioters as "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups," featured an upside-down red triangle, which some have interpreted as a callback to prisoners of Nazi camps. “A red inverted triangle was first used in the 1930s to…

Twitter censorship may have met its match — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). Cotton wrote the now-infamous New York Times opinion piece headlined, “Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops,” calling to restore order amidst the George Floyd riots on June 3. Cotton later tweeted the phrase: “No quarter for insurrectionists, anarchists, rioters, and looters.” He asserted in a Fox News opinion piece that he was…

Facebook claims that it aims “to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook.” But it seems that it only takes aim at some, not all, of the offline harm on its site.

Donald Trump, Jr. declared war on the world’s biggest search engine after it reportedly demonetized Zerohedge and The Federalist. “The GOP Senate needs to wake up & IMMEDIATELY subpoena & haul in the CEO of @Google for questioning,” Don, Jr. tweeted on June 16. He condemned Google as an “out of control monopoly, with a leftwing political agenda, engaging in a clear campaign to silence…

Power players on the Hill and at the Department of Justice are mobilizing and rolling out unprecedented legislation and regulations to hold Big Tech accountable for its censorship of conservatives. The Justice Department is set to crack down today on the Section 230 protections, which have been used by Big Tech companies as a shield from lawsuits. This is being done “in an effort to make tech…

Facebook launched a new program to incentivize its users in America to vote in the 2020 election. It announced that the platform plans to help 4 million people go out and vote. The move comes amidst massive internal and external pressure on the company to restrict or censor content from President Donald Trump. So far, Facebook has not agreed.

A new report indicates that a vast majority of Americans distrust Big Tech, after years of infamous bias scandals. The liberal John S. and James L. Knight Foundation released a report “Free Expression, Harmful Speech and Censorship in a Digital World.” The results were an indictment of Big Tech and how liberal bias has become a household issue. “More than 8 in 10 Americans (84%) say they do…

Big Tech companies, once seen as creating world-changing platforms that gave voice to the voiceless are actually beholden to government censorship — especially in China. The video-conference company Zoom reportedly “announced Thursday that it would help the Beijing government crack down on activists within that country, and would only draw the line at blocking users outside of mainland China…

Not one to leave all the activism to rioters vandalizing statues, Big Tech appears to be joining the removal of western icons. “Images of Winston Churchill failed to appear Sunday during Google searches for the former British prime minister—but the tech giant says it was not on purpose,” Fox News summarized in a June 14 article. This comes after multiple riots had broken out in countries…

Twitter admits it wrongfully banned the site ZeroHedge, but its history of selective enforcement is still infamous. The COVID-19 virus’s origins, lethality, and cures have been hotly debated throughout 2020, to the point where social media platforms have heavily restricted many users’ posts. As a rare exception, one website has been reinstated after users thought it was gone forever. “133 days…

YouTube users are reporting that any comments they make about violence at Black Lives Matter protests seem to disappear just seconds after they are posted. According to Reclaim the Net, a free speech tech website, using the phrase “Black Lives Matter violence” in a YouTube comment results in the instant removal of that comment.

Snap leadership’s decision to stop President Donald Trump from being able to promote himself on the Snapchat platform may be just the ripe first target for Sen. Josh Hawley’s proposed legislation. “We’re well within our First Amendment rights to decide what shows up,” Snap CEO Evan Spiegel explained to CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” Spiegel then cited that the First Amendment is written to “protect…