Category: censorship

Newsmax Versus DirecTV and America’s Censorship Regime

February 14, 2023
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Commentary Almost daily now, Americans see new evidence of a mass, public-private censorship regime—part and parcel of something resembling an American social credit system in which those who submit to ruling class orthodoxy are rewarded, and those who run afoul of it are railroaded. So when news broke recently that DirecTV was booting center-right network…

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The Twitter Files Reveal an Existential Threat

February 9, 2023
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Commentary The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on Feb. 7, 2023. Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter last October and the subsequent reporting on the Twitter Files by journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and a handful of others beginning in early December is one of the most important news stories of…

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The Decline and Fall of the University

February 9, 2023
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Commentary Since retiring from the university, several people have asked if I miss it. I tell them I miss what it was, but not what it has become. Higher education in America has gone from being the best in the world to one of the most pathetic. Why? It’s hard to describe what academia was to…

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Liberalism as We Knew It Is Extinct

February 9, 2023
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Commentary There were two simultaneous hearings yesterday in the House now ruled by Republicans. The first concerned Big Tech censorship and featured Twitter ex-employees being grilled on their role in controlling the public mind in ways that were politically biased. It was mostly boring of course but I was struck by how many times the…

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EU Complains Twitter Seems to Lack Appetite for Censorship

February 9, 2023
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European Union authorities have complained that Twitter doesn’t seem to be taking the bloc’s fight against “disinformation” seriously by producing an incomplete report on compliance with its rules on censorship. Elon Musk’s Twitter lagged behind the likes of Google, Meta, and TikTok in the fight against “disinformation” over the past six months, the European Commission…

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EU Complains Elon Musk’s Twitter Lacks Appetite for Censorship

February 9, 2023
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European Union authorities have complained that Twitter doesn’t seem to be taking the bloc’s fight against “disinformation” seriously by producing an incomplete report on compliance with its rules on censorship. Elon Musk’s Twitter lagged behind the likes of Google, Meta, and TikTok in the fight against “disinformation” over the past six months, the European Commission…

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How Government and Big Tech Colluded to Usurp Constitutional Rights

February 7, 2023
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News Analysis “It is also axiomatic that a state may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.” ~ Norwood v. Harrison (1973). Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court held that the U.S. Government cannot coerce private parties to violate citizens’ constitutionally protected liberties. Under the guise of COVID…

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Just How Hard Were We Trolled?

February 6, 2023
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Commentary What if Anthony Fauci co-authored an article on vaccines that would have gotten you and I blocked and banned at any point in the last three years? That just happened. His article in Cell—“Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses”—says it as plainly as possible: the COVID vaccine did not work…

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PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Mike Benz (Part 2): How the ‘Department of Dirty Tricks’ Turned on Americans

February 4, 2023
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Previously, in part one of my interview with Mike Benz, he explained the existence of a “whole-of-society” censorship industry in the West. Benz has been tracking the rise of censorship for years as executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online and a former State Department diplomat. Now in part two, Benz explains how tools…

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