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October 10, 2019
Apple has no problem being woke, except when it might cost the company billions of dollars.
Apple removed an app, called HKmap.live, from the app store after it received criticism from the Chinese government. People’s Daily, the Chinese state…
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October 9, 2019
Video game industry legend Mark Kern disavowed Blizzard for kowtowing to Chinese censorship, encouraging gamers to “rise up” and “#BoycottBlizzard.”
Kern, who grew up in Asia, was involved in some of Blizzard Entertainment…
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October 8, 2019
Another American company bowed to Chinese censorship in order to protect their bottom line.
Blizzard Entertainment found itself in the same hot water as the NBA about China. The computer gaming firm, famous for titles such as “World of…
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October 3, 2019
One of the news social media apps is copying the strategies of big name sites — censorship.
TikTok, a wildly popular app that is managed by a sinister moderation system, is censoring posts about President Donald Trump, Christianity and the LGBT…
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July 17, 2019
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) roasted Google’s representative at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
The hearing, “Google and Censorship through Search Engines,” featured numerous heavy hitters from both sides of the…
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May 31, 2019
Tech companies have been strangely silent on the subject of Chinese censorship. But one reason for their silence might be the millions Chinese companies have invested in these platforms.
In a May 30 podcast with the Harvard Business Review, Reddit…
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February 7, 2019
What happens when the front page of the internet is funded by the company that made the Great Firewall in China?
Reddit, the internet forum for communities, posts, and news, is currently fundraising to keep itself afloat, with a $300 million goal.…
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January 29, 2019
Left? Lefter? Leftist? In the quest to see which candidate can be the most liberal, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for an “ultra-millionaire tax” to force the wealthy to fork over more to the government.…
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December 18, 2018
Google is apparently abandoning its attempt to create a search engine for the Chinese market -- an effort that both tarnished its public image and caused massive internal conflict.
The communist Chinese government wanted a search engine that would…
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December 12, 2018
Liberal media companies from tech to culture blogs have united to deny conservative claims and to argue Big Tech bias is “fake news.”
The comments came in response to the Capitol Hill questioning of Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The…