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April 21, 2020
COVID-19 is a phenomenon that even the most trusted sources have known almost nothing about since it began to spread in Wuhan, China. Outlets like CNN and organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) have published material that later…
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September 10, 2019
If nothing else, the sordid story of Jeffrey Epstein has done some good by exposing possible corruption in academia, science, and Big Tech.
Business Insider wrote that LinkedIn founder and Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman is the latest in…
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September 9, 2019
Microsoft President Brad Smith is one of Big Tech’s biggest advocates for censorship online.
Wouldn’t it be great if he brought that can-do attitude to the government?
In an interview with Time Magazine, Smith told Romesh…
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August 27, 2019
Google has tried to appease the social justice movement within its company, to the point that it has been accused of reverse discrimination. But apparently that’s not enough, according to one of its engineers.
Bria Sullivan, an app developer…
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July 22, 2019
Add Germany to the list of foreign governments struggling with the lax privacy policies found in Big Tech companies.
The state government of Hesse, Germany, has forbidden students by law from using Microsoft Office 365 over privacy concerns…
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July 3, 2019
Facebook’s new anti-violence policies have not yet applied to some of the most controversial and potentially dangerous users on its platform: the domestic terrorist group Antifa.
At least 119 regional Antifa groups and pages remain…
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June 21, 2019
XBox has video game smack-talk in its crosshairs.
In an interview with Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo, Xbox head Phil Spencer proclaimed that “Xbox Live is not a free speech platform.” He added that “It is not a place where…
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May 31, 2019
The tech industry is slowly circling conservative media and preparing to strike.
An advertising program manager for Microsoft responded to an op-ed by New York Times contributor Farhad Manjoo, agreeing that Fox News was a “million pound fork-…
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May 15, 2019
The White House slammed both Google and Facebook over the First Amendment when it passed on a New Zealand plea for censorship of online content.
The Washington Post reported that while other foreign powers sign on to the Christchurch Call to…
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April 30, 2019
Markus Persson, aka “Notch,” the original inventor of the worldwide video game phenomenon Minecraft, has been memory-holed by Microsoft from the game’s history for being politically incorrect.
Persson created the original game in…