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June 15, 2020
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…
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June 15, 2020
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…
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June 15, 2020
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…
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June 12, 2020
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…
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June 12, 2020
Now that Microsoft has joined other Big Tech companies in refusing to help police, President Donald Trump has retweeted a call to have them barred from government contracts.
Microsoft followed the lead of IBM and Amazon in vowing to stop…
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June 11, 2020
Facebook stood up for free speech against former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign’s petition calling for censorship.
The Biden campaign posted an open letter to Facebook demanding the platform change its policies on free speech. The letter urged…
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June 11, 2020
Three Big Tech companies are the latest to join the fight against police by withholding their facial recognition technologies.
IBM, Amazon and Microsoft have vowed to stop helping police with facial recognition. The rationale is that, “Facial…
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June 11, 2020
The movement that spurns capitalism seems to embrace it if it serves its own purposes.
Amazon, Etsy, and Google all have sellers who are taking advantage of the current political situation on their platforms. Some of this merchandise includes…
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June 11, 2020
Facebook’s third party fact-checkers, selected by the liberal Poynter Institute, have officially labeled World Health Organization’s (WHO) statement about asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 as “misleading.” Ironically, in April, Facebook used the…
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June 10, 2020
Senators sent an open letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai demanding action on President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship.
The open letter summarized how Section 230 works, arguing that it, “shields social media platforms…