Tag: deplatforming

The Deplatforming of the ‘Disinformation Dozen’: More Coverage From Tracy Beanz

June 2, 2023
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Commentary Our lawyers in Missouri v. Biden were in court last week seeking a temporary injunction to halt the government’s censorship industrial complex. In our petition, we explained how this regime has been functioning with the following analogy: “Suppose that the Trump White House, backed by Republicans controlling both Houses of Congress, publicly demanded that all libraries…

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London Ontario’s Public Library Bans Society for Academic Freedom

May 18, 2023
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Commentary In mid-May, True North columnist Andrew Lawton reported that the London Public Library in Ontario refused to rent space for an annual public lecture organized by the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS). Founded in 1992, SAFS is a Canadian academic organization with a mandate to “defend freedom in teaching, research and scholarship.”…

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AOC is Wrong—Deplatforming Never Works

April 28, 2023
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Commentary Soon after Tucker Carlson left Fox News, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, more commonly known by her initials AOC, celebrated on social media, telling her followers that “deplatforming works.” Deplatforming, the practice of preventing an individual with specific views from voicing those views, might work for her, but it’s a disaster for broader society, according to a…

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Kulldorff Deleted: Famed Epidemiologist and Early Opponent of Lockdowns Banned by LinkedIn

January 30, 2022
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Commentary Just a few days ago, I linked to an epic article in the history of the pandemic response. It was posted April 10, 2020, less than a month after lockdowns. The legendary Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, whose impeccable academic record includes writing statistical packages used the world over to assess vaccine safety, could not find…

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Big Tech Only Has Itself to Blame for Rethinking of Antitrust

June 18, 2021
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Commentary There are few, if any, political issues that now generate the breadth and intensity of bipartisan backlash as does the rise of Big Tech. During Donald Trump’s presidency, the major parties largely diverged on their specific grievances against the woke Silicon Valley monopolists who serve as gatekeepers for America’s 21st-century public square. Republicans, by…

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