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EU: Politicizing the Internet
EU: Politicizing the Internet Even before such EU-wide legislation, similar ostensible “anti-terror legislation” in France, for example, is being used as a political tool against political opponents and to limit unwanted free speech. In France, simply spreading information about ISIS atrocities is now considered “incitement to terrorism”. It is this kind of legislation, it seems, […]
Leaked Memo Reveals Details Of Google’s “Censored Search Engine” For Communist China
Leaked Memo Reveals Details Of Google’s “Censored Search Engine” For Communist China It’s now confirmed that Google’s long suspected assistance to the Communist government of China to censor and monitor its citizens’ online activity runs deeper and is more proactive that initially thought. The Intercept published a bombshell report based on internal Google whistle-blower testimony […]
Taxing and Tracking the Independent Media: Censorship and Control
Taxing and Tracking the Independent Media: Censorship and Control One of the most heinous things about taxes is that they support the very “organs” (to quote a Soviet-era term) of government that crush the people…even further. The taxes are weapons used by the authorities…and all authority comes from the barrel of a gun (to paraphrase […]
Are Media Matters And George Soros Behind The Social Media Purge?
Are Media Matters And George Soros Behind The Social Media Purge? A nearly two-year-old document reportedly issued by ‘Media Matters for America’ lays out a plan for “defeating Trump” and Republicans over the next four years. But is this strategy actually responsible for the social media taking place on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google? After […]
Google Engineers Quit After Secretive China Project Links Phone Number To Searches
Google Engineers Quit After Secretive China Project Links Phone Number To Searches A prototype of Google’s censored search engine for China links users’ searches to their personal phone numbers, “thus making it easier for the Chinese government to monitor people’s queries,” reports The Intercept. Photo: Alex Castro / The Verge The search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, revolves […]
ThinkProgress Censored By Facebook After Cheerleading Facebook Censorship
ThinkProgress Censored By Facebook After Cheerleading Facebook Censorship In an article last month titled “Facebook announces that fake accounts are now coming not just from Russia”, fauxgressive establishment apologia firm ThinkProgress falsely reported that I have been writing for an outlet that is alleged to be part of an Iranian propaganda campaign. I repeatedlybrought this false claim […]
YouTube Bans Media Supporting Syria’s Liberating Struggle
YouTube Bans Media Supporting Syria’s Liberating Struggle Alphabet/Google-owned YouTube is a censoring machine like its parent company – waging war on speech and media freedom, in cahoots with dark US forces waging war on humanity. Google transformed itself from a search engine to gatekeeper/censor, eliminating what it calls extremist content, its YouTube subsidiary operating the […]
Russian Media Irritates French Government: Curbing Press Freedom
Russian Media Irritates French Government: Curbing Press Freedom The report titled Information Manipulation: a Challenge for Our Democracies prepared by two government-linked think tanks – the French Foreign Ministry’s Center for Analysis, Planning and Strategy (CAPS) and the Defense Ministry’s Institute for Strategic Studies (IRSEM) – saw light on Sept.4. The paper urges the French government to “name and isolate” outlets that act […]
Twitter Exposes Its Politically Motivated Censorship Policy In Banning Of Alex Jones
Twitter Exposes Its Politically Motivated Censorship Policy In Banning Of Alex Jones September 6, 2018 Elizabeth Vos It has been a busy month for Twitter, and Alex Jones, with Jack Dorsey forced to defend the decision not to ban Jones early last month, only reverse course by suspending Jones shortly after a tense Senate hearing […]
EU Enters “Final Stage” of Crafting Bill Forcing Big Tech Censorship
EU Enters “Final Stage” of Crafting Bill Forcing Big Tech Censorship The European Union is in the final stages of crafting legislation that will force big tech and internet companies to censor “extremist” content and cooperate with law enforcement, Reuters reports. The bill is expected to be released by the end of the month and will […]
Murphy’s Law: Big Tech Must Serve as Censorship Subcontractors
Murphy’s Law: Big Tech Must Serve as Censorship Subcontractors In a recent tweet, US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) warned that “Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart.” His solution: “These companies must do more than take down one […]
Five examples that show internet censorship is as much a threat to the left as the right
Five examples that show internet censorship is as much a threat to the left as the right © Kacper Pempel / Reuters The banning of right wing controversialist Alex Jones from multiple social media platforms last week was a cause of celebration for many liberals, but should those on the left really be so complacent […]
Twitter Shut Down My Account For “Abusing” John McCain
Twitter Shut Down My Account For “Abusing” John McCain UPDATE: It looks like the suspension was lifted just after I hit publish on this. A lot of my fans and even a few haters made a big noise in objection to Twitter’s actions, and it worked! As we discussed recently, the plutocratic manipulators work so hard to manufacture our […]
Taibbi: Censorship Does Not End Well
Censorship Does Not End Well How America learned to stop worrying and put Mark Zuckerberg in charge of everything Infowars’ Alex Jones and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Brooks Kraft/Getty Images, Alex Brandon/AP/REX Shutterstock Silicon Valley is changing its mind about censorship. Two weeks ago, we learned about a new campaign against “inauthentic” content, conducted by […]
Censorship Is What Happens When Powerful People Get Scared
Censorship Is What Happens When Powerful People Get Scared “Only the weak hit the fly with a hammer.” – Bangambiki Habyarimana Anyone who tells you the recent escalation of censorship by U.S. tech giants is merely a reflection of private companies making independent decisions is either lying or dangerously ignorant. In the case of Facebook, the […]
