Category: censorship

Deception and Suppression: A Year of Beijing’s Virus Coverup

News analysis Around this time last year, Chinese authorities acknowledged that an “unknown” form of pneumonia was spreading in the city of Wuhan. But it was already too late. What we now know as COVID-19 had already broken out across the city and possibly beyond. In the months that followed, authorities bungled prevention measures and…


Apple Punished Employee for Approving App That Was Critical of Beijing, Lawsuit Alleges

A former Apple employee alleges in a lawsuit that the company punished him for approving an app critical of the Chinese regime in order to appease Beijing authorities. The allegations were made by Trieu Pham, a former app reviewer for the tech giant, in a discrimination and wrongful termination suit filed at the Santa Clara…


‘Does Congress Know That This Is How Communism Starts?’: Trump Condemns Big Tech Policing of Free Speech

President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve repeated his concerns over Big Tech censorship a day after he vetoed a defense-spending bill over Congress’s failure to remove liability protections for Silicon Valley’s social media companies. “Twitter is going wild with their flags, trying hard to suppress even the truth. Just shows how dangerous they are, purposely stifling…


The Universal Right to Counsel and the Expansion of Tyranny by Non-Governmental Actors

Commentary The assault on our democratic process for selecting elected officials is not limited to distorting results at the ballot box through skewed interpretations of the U.S. and various state constitutions, though these appear to have had a devastating effect on Nov. 3. Equally nefarious, and perhaps more insidious, are the corollary steps being taken…