The release of the Twitter Files revealed that defense agencies are censoring social media platforms to promote a certain agenda, making the war on so-called COVID misinformation look more like a national security issue than a public health one.
Tag - censorship
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Stop Using Children to Justify Censorship | Guest: Shoshana Weissmann | Ep 231
Won’t someone please think of the children? From time immemorial, this has been the battle cry of the moral guardians who want to control what you’re allowed to see, hear, or think.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
TikTok Ban Empowers Government Speech Police | Guest: Robby Soave | Ep 221
The war against Big Tech is in full swing. Republicans in Congress are attempting to pass the Restrict Act, a dangerous piece of legislation that would not only allow them to ban TikTok, the China-controlled social media app, but would also give them broad powers to regulate Americans’...
The Xmas Eve Files revealed just how hands-on the federal bureaucomplex is with monitoring the Twittersphere.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Censorship Is a Big Government Problem, Not a Big Tech Problem | Guests: Adam Thierer, Wayne Brough | Ep 204
Matt Kibbe is joined by the R Street Institute’s Adam Thierer and Wayne Brough to discuss the state of free speech on the internet.
The US government has spent years suppressing private speech for their own political ends, violating the US Constitution’s protection of freedom of speech and American civil liberties.
Social media operates at the behest of the government—a mendicant begging for permission outside an inscrutable, unknowable bureaucracy.
Elite members of the laptop class are howling for more content moderation, better known as censorship.
When the carrot emoji is eventually nixxed, another vegetable, or fruit, possibly animal, will take its place. The very human need to prick holes in overarching authority will keep asserting itself.
Podcast, Leaving the Left for Liberty
Ryan Hartwig vs. Section 230 Big Tech Collusion | Leaving the Left for Liberty | Ep 16
Ryan Hartwig was a content moderator for nearly two years working for Cognizant, subcontracted by Facebook. He reviewed and deleted groups, pages, posts, comments, and videos for Facebook and Instagram.