by Pennel Bird | Feb 6, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Privacy & Tech
As a rogue wave of censorship breaks hard across the landscape of American life, two videos of doctors testifying under oath in the Senate on various COVID treatments were swept away in the suppressive social media tsunami. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) held hearings in...
by Laura Valkovic | Feb 4, 2021 | Columns, Privacy & Tech
Social media platform Parler quickly gained symbolic status as a free speech frontier after the Capitol riots as one platform which would not capitulate to the politically correct – but is that all over now? Parler Free Speech Crusade Collapses Under Infighting?...
by Laura Valkovic | Jan 29, 2021 | Columns, Good Reads, Privacy & Tech
From YouTube massaging the numbers on Biden White House videos to Democrat attempts at weaponizing the FBI against social media platform Parler, it looks like we are entering a brave new world of online censorship and manipulation. Just how far will this go? Two...
by Laura Valkovic | Jan 22, 2021 | Business News, Columns, Good Reads
In the weeks following the Capitol riot, Twitter has become possibly the most hated name on the internet – and the most acclaimed. Depending on whom you ask, the microblogging platform acted heroically or tyrannically in cutting Donald Trump’s character limit to zero....
by Pennel Bird | Jan 18, 2021 | Articles, First Amendment, Media, Politics, Social Issues
In the most alarming week for censorship and cancel culture since at least the advent of the internet, unprecedented crackdowns on free speech have metastasized in the days after the Capitol riots – which were roundly denounced by those on both the left and right....
