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January 24, 2024
A Republican senator called on the Supreme Court to finally address the rampant censorship targeting Americans’ speech on Big Tech platforms.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday filed a brief to the Court supporting Texas and Florida’s laws…
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September 29, 2023
After years of delay, the notoriously risk-averse Supreme Court will finally decide whether states have the right to protect free speech from Big Tech’s authoritarian censors.
In a Friday morning order, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it…
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February 7, 2023
Don’t mess with Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced Monday that his state is implementing a plan to enforce its TikTok ban on state-owned devices.
Abbott cited increased security risks due to the app’s troubling ties with the…
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December 9, 2022
Texas has joined four other states in banning or partially blocking the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied TikTok for state agencies.
South Dakota, South Carolina, Nebraska and Maryland had already moved to ban TikTok for state agencies, The…
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May 4, 2022
It’s Episode 36 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about Amazon employee and customer temper tantrums that led to the censorship of two books — one about child self-acceptance and the other about biology.
Conservative commentator,…
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March 17, 2022
If you thought you could easily be anonymous on social media, think again.
Cybersecurity expert Jeff Kosseff warned that people are losing their ability to be anonymous online. He said he thinks “everyone should be concerned about being able…
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January 4, 2022
Facebook faced a firestorm of controversy after it punished a children's book publication company, Heroes Of Liberty. It has since reversed the ban, but prominent critics have questions.
Facebook hasn’t been transparent about its approach to free…
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October 23, 2021
On Friday, a federal judge ruled that Texas can seek files on content moderation from Facebook and Twitter.
According to Bloomberg, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) can seek limited discovery from the Big Tech giants regarding their…
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September 23, 2021
NetChoice, a prominent tech trade group, is suing Texas over its anti-censorship law.
NetChoice alleges that the Texas law violates the First Amendment because it allows the government to compel platforms to host speech it doesn’t agree with.
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September 16, 2021
Amazon sells Hitler’s Mein Kampf, but blocked an advertisement for an investigative book on Black Lives Matter leaders, citing “controversial” content. The platform later claimed to have made an “error” and is now allowing the book to be advertised…