by Graham J Noble | Dec 11, 2022 | Articles, First Amendment, Good Reads, Opinion
The late Potter Stewart, a lawyer who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1958 to 1981, said, “Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” In this information age dominated by social...
by James Fite | Dec 9, 2022 | Articles, Opinion, Social Issues
The second batch of what’s being called the Twitter Files was announced on the platform Thursday, December 8. In a 30-part thread, journalist Bari Weiss of The Free Press revealed the secret blacklists Twitter employees used to silence conservative voices. But that...
by Graham J Noble | Dec 5, 2022 | Articles, Editor's Choice, Media, Opinion
On December 2, Twitter CEO Elon Musk released a trove of emails that showed how employees of the social media platform complied with multiple requests to remove or restrict certain articles and comments. Independent journalist Matt Taibbi was Musk’s chosen conduit for...
by James Fite | Dec 2, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Google and YouTube are shelling out $13.2 million to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) to help “fight misinformation.” But does the Google-Poynter partnership safeguard truth or censor any message that strays too far from the approved narrative? Google...
by Joe Schaeffer | Nov 30, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
A video game developer who was hounded from his position as CEO of the software company he co-founded for publicly expressing his pro-life views has given a powerful explication of how cancel culture works in the real world today. Former Tripwire executive John...
