Category: Internet Censorship: Tech Giants’ War on Free Speech

Look at what Facebook allows and look at what they ban.

The Heritage Foundation will defend Facebook’s legal right as a “private company” to censor content and will oppose attempts to regulate the tech giant.

We need anti-trust legislation and we need it now. It’s war. People do not understand what is at stake and what they have lost. Social media is the public square and our First Amendment rights should be first and foremost. Either we go quietly into the cold, dark night or we go to war.

It’s all well and good that Facebook reversed the block against me, but what about the millions of others who are routinely banned and blocked? Millions of conservative Americans have no recourse, no Breitbart article to call out the leftist authoritarians at Facebook.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee Hearing is holding a hearing this morning at 10:00am EST on social media filtering and policing practices.

The truth violates Facebook community standards.

“War is being declared on the conservative movement in this space and conservatives are losing — badly.” On Monday, the Media Research Center released a comprehensive report detailing the suppression of conservative opinions on major social media platforms. It lists the conservative blog Legal Insurrection, foreign policy commentator Pamela Geller, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, video bloggers Diamond and Silk, Dennis Prager’s PragerU series

The left is at war in the information battle-space. Make no mistake, it’s war. And too many Americans are clueless or apathetic. But there are no casual bystanders in this war. Take a stand or rue the day.

Not only has Mark Zuckerberg instituted the same speech restrictions on the general public that totalitarians have imposed in the past, he has installed the same terrifying techniques with Facebook employees.

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel argues Silicon Valley is is a ‘totalitarian place’ where people are not allowed to have dissenting views.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter are allowing jihadists to ‘act with impunity’ by uploading beheading videos and bomb-making manuals, the country’s most senior counter-terror officer said yesterday.

A report from the Outline finds that conservative sites including Breitbart News and Fox have also seen dramatic falls in engagement, while mainstream sites like CNN and the New York Times were unaffected.

The Anti-Defamation League has stated that social media companies YouTube, Twitter and Facebook may use the group’s “Online Hate Index” to detect hate speech on their platforms.

Apparently, on Twitter, it’s OK to be a terrorist, but completely unacceptable to be pro-Israel — and what’s more, the Anti-Defamation League sees nothing wrong with this.

In the meantime, neo-Nazis, terrorist organizations and those dedicated to the destruction of Israel continue to operate freely. Among them, Hatem Bazian – a repeated offender of anti-Semitism, David Duke – former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and even terror organization Hamas.

Facebook is Mark, and Mark is Facebook.” “Mark has 60 percent voting rights for Facebook. So you have one individual, 33 years old, who has basically full control of the experience of 2 billion people around the world. That’s unprecedented. Even the president of the United States has checks and balances.”

Tech workers following the lead of Peter Thiel, a President Donald Trump-supporting venture capitalist and bolting Silicon Valley for Los Angeles. Not that LA is all that much better. But pushback is good and it’s happening.

Geller tells the audience how Google’s advertising platform went from being 70% of revenue from the Geller Report to them blacklisting her from the platform simply based on her conservatives views. She outlines how they do not just target voices they disagree with, but they make sure that those voices are unable to sustain themselves: “If they kill your ability to make a living, it’s a form of murder.”

Join me on Tuesday, February 6, 2018, at 1:00 pm (ET) at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. thought leaders and prominent voices in alternative media will gather for a panel discussion on social media neutrality and the fight for diversity of voices online.

We are seeing an unprecedented erosion in our First Amendment rights, increasingly prohibiting the flow of ideas and free expression in the public square (social media).