A New McCarthyism
Two years ago, I moved to the United States to found a think tank devoted to defending global free expression. What better place to launch than America, which is, according to the law professor and First Amendment expert Lee Bollinger, “the most speech protective of any nation on Earth, now or throughout history”?
FBI Imposed ‘Gag Order’ on Analyst Who Told Twitter Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was Real
The FBI silenced an employee who tried to tell Twitter the Hunter Biden laptop story was real on the day it came out, newly released chat logs show.
On October 14, 2020, the day the New York Post first reported on Hunter Biden’s laptop, the FBI told employees “do not discuss [the] Biden matter” and imposed a “gag order” on an analyst who tried to confirm the story’s veracity to Twitter during a meeting, according to chat logs released by the House Judiciary Committee.
USAID Caught Red-Handed in Censorship Conspiracy
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is allegedly implicated in a vast, government-backed censorship scheme, according to internal documents obtained by law group America First Legal through ongoing litigation against the U.S. Department of State's Global Engagement Center (GEC).
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley discusses his mission to hold big tech accountable
For years, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has called out tech companies, arguing they exploit users' private information.
The senior senator from Missouri says individuals should have control over their information, not big tech. "If they want to purchase it from us, fine," Hawley told NPR. "If they want to compensate us in some way, sure. But what's happening now, with our entire model based on taking this information from us and targeting our kids, we just can't let that go on."
Hawley also argues that these platforms have censored conservative voices.
FTC crashes FCC party in threats against Big Tech for censorship in tug-of-war with Europe, Brazil
Like a child custody battle in a throuple, U.S. tech companies are getting pulled in three directions as the Trump administration abandons its predecessor's tacit tolerance, if not always explicit approval, for official censorship in the European Union and Brazil.
FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal
The Federal Trade Commission today announced a public inquiry into alleged censorship online, saying it wants "to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users' access to services based on the content of their speech or affiliations, and how this conduct may have violated the law." "Tech firms should not be bullying their users," said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who was chosen by President Trump to lead the commission. "This inquiry will help the FTC better understand how these firms may have violated the law by silencing and intimidating...
Two Independent Journalists Took a Blowtorch to the 'Censorship Industrial Complex'
These two have been up on the Hill before outlining the increasingly illiberal and creepy censorship mentality that’s engulfed the Democratic Party, the progressive activist wing, and its leeching into the mainstream media that have pundits who defend this Politburo nonsense. Michael Shellenberger of Public and Matt Taibbi of Racket News have been two of the most visible independent reporters who have been made uneasy by the actions of the Biden administration.
Censorship-industrial complex spreads like 'lice,' journalists say DOGE must 'sledgehammer' it
"Breaking news: Joe Biden lost the election."
Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen summarized Democrats' objections at a Republican-led House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday on the "censorship-industrial complex," citing new and bigger threats to free speech and checks on government power: Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency and President Trump's lawsuits against the media.
Bills Aim To Stop Big Tech, Big Government From Silencing Speech Again
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., was among the first to see evidence of what many Americans suspected: Big Tech colluding with the Biden administration to silence speech. Now he’s reintroducing legislation to hold government bureaucrats and social media giants accountable for their sins of omission.
Biden officials ‘screamed’ and ‘cursed’ at Meta execs to take down vaccine posts, Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg slammed the Biden Administration for censorship, took shots at one of his biggest tech rivals and said he’s “optimistic” about President-elect Donald Trump during a wide-ranging interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan.
Wearing a brown T-shirt and gold-chain, the suddenly conservative-sounding tech tycoon spent the first hour of the nearly three-hour sit-down discussing the strong-arm tactics Team Biden used to silence those who cast doubt on the COVID vaccine – a topic dear to Rogan’s heart.