Tag: censorship

Dancing With the Woke: It’s Time for Liberals to Change Partners

Commentary “Woke” is one of the presently accepted terms employed to celebrate the presumed superiority of the neo-Marxist “social justice warrior.” “Wokeness” is a particularly useful ideological brand for Western Marxists because it allows them to disassociate themselves from inconvenient historical labels such as Bolsheviks, Nazis, Fascists, and Maoists and confuse their opponents by adopting…


Filmmakers: Cancel Culture Seeks to Erode Traditional Values and Imprison the Mind

Filmmakers Clarence Felder and Chris Weatherhead say that, as cancel culture broadens its scope, it’s not only having a chilling effect on people working in creative fields, but it seeks to imprison the mind more generally—to the detriment of society and civilization. “I think the idea is to wipe out our history, wipe out our traditions,…


Book Review: ‘The Woke Supremacy’

Commentary What strange days these are here in the United States. Just a few years ago, most Americans had never heard the words “democratic socialist” said together. They had never heard of “Black Lives Matter” or “Antifa.” And now? After watching for a year as violent leftist mobs pulled down statues, destroyed landmarks, looted businesses,…


Parler Says It Informed FBI Over 50 Times About Violent Content Before US Capitol Breach

Social media platform Parler said it had referred violent content from its platform to the FBI ahead of the breach at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Parler made the disclosure in a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, in response to the panel’s request for documents. The company said that it had referred…


Conservative Heritage Foundation Turns Down Six-Figure Donations From Google, Facebook

Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation has declined donations from Google and Facebook because of the companies’ censoring of persons and groups with conservative points of view. Outgoing foundation president Kay C. James sent letters to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai explaining that the Heritage Foundation could “not in good conscience accept money” from companies…


Democrats Push For More Censorship at Facebook, Google, Twitter Hearing

Democrats urged Big Tech to step up online censorship or face government regulation during a March 25 congressional hearing with chief executives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter. The lawmakers portrayed the platforms as rife with “disinformation and extremism” that the platforms are unwilling to purge. “Our nation is drowning in disinformation driven by social media,”…


NJ Teacher Blamed for Trump Yearbook Censorship Paid $325,000 by District

A school district from New Jersey has paid $325,000 to a local teacher who said she was ordered to digitally erase a pro-Donald Trump logo from a student’s T-Shirt in a yearbook picture. The settlement was approved on Thursday by the Wall Township school board, according to NJ Advance Media. The teacher, Susan Parsons, retired from…


Facebook to Add Warnings, Limit Visibility of Groups That Violate Platform Rules

Facebook announced Wednesday that it has implemented a number of changes on the social media platform that violate its standards.


The Culture Curators Want to Think for You

Commentary Sandor Mecs was a child when his family lived in the town of Szentendre, Hungary. Today, it is a picturesque town 20 miles north of Budapest that is lined with winding cobblestone streets, colorful centuries-old homes, cottages, and churches. It is a tourism center with its flourishing museums, charm, and proximity to the capital….


Trying to Find ‘Inclusive’ Language Is Like Chasing the End of a Rainbow

Commentary An old saying goes that the more things change, the more they stay the same. In 1988, the late President George H. W. Bush rolled out his vision for a “kinder, gentler America.”  This lofty ideal was met with disparagement for symbolism that lacked teeth. More than three decades later, the trudge to a…