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It’s clear that President Trump has kept his promise to be tough on China. But as we take on China’s unfair trade policies and secure our supply chains, we must also do more to preserve America’s technological and military dominance over China. We can start by stopping them from stealing our sensitive technology. Last year, the nonprofit C4ADS released a report detailing the extent of China’s massive government effort to use private Chinese firms to steal technology for its military. The report exposed how a publicly traded company on the Shenzhen stock exchange, Highlander Digital Technology Co. Ltd., manipulated legal channels...

NEW!! Twitter CENSORS Trump tweet on MAIL-IN drop boxes, offers transparently FAKE and HYPOCRITICAL rationale https://t.co/gFu0VrfP7I pic.twitter.com/2k4EphTW1K— The Right Scoop (@TheRightScoop) August 23, 2020

Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is a popular target on social media. But Big Tech companies have responded by deleting mocking posts and suspending critics. In the months leading up to the Democratic National Convention, more than 260 conservative users on Facebook and Twitter had their posts about Biden scrubbed from the social media platforms. Posting an innocent meme showing light coming from Biden’s eyes meant an immediate suspension on Twitter for anywhere between 12 hours and two months. Facebook users who argued that Biden was “creepy” or posted actual pictures of the former vice...

How much of what you believe is going on within the world’s current events is actually true? Do you think you would make different decisions if your perception was missing important bits of information that change any given story? This is an important question right now, as much of what people think is happening comes from mainstream media or “fact-checkers,” and much of the time, it’s only a small piece to the story that doesn’t truly inform people. Ongoing Facebook censorship is forcing the hand of independent organizations who have had enough of the platform’s allowance of independent “fact-checkers” to...

If Kamala asked you to go “heels up” with her, would you?— Robert Trump (@UncleRobTrump) August 14, 2020 My brother and I shared a nice hug earlier. It lifted my spirits big league. I love you @realDonaldTrump.— Robert Trump (@UncleRobTrump) August 15, 2020 Oh @Twitter why is this account still here? It's fake and should have "parody" on it.— Chrysippus (@Chrysippus504) August 14, 2020 Report it for impersonation.— Bonnie Taylor-Blake (@btaylorblake) August 14, 2020 I already did. 😎— Chrysippus (@Chrysippus504) August 14, 2020

We have no idea why, but Twitter suspended Trump supporter Bill Mitchell on Friday:

The annual conference is hosted by Great Wall Club (GWC), a group comprised of executives from Chinese companies such as Tencent and their Silicon Valley counterparts. This collaboration, however, poses a national security threat and runs the risk of intellectual property theft and espionage per the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Tencent, for example, has been characterized by the U.S. State Department as a “tool of the Chinese government” with “no meaningful ability to tell the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ‘no’ if officials decide to ask for their assistance,”and is among the bevy of Chinese companies banned or on track...

Late last month the CEOs of four of the most powerful tech companies in the world — Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Alphabet, which owns Google — testified before the House Judiciary Committee, which has spent a year investigating their companies’ alleged anti-competitive and monopolistic practices. That’s quite a fall for Big Tech, which just a decade ago was viewed by Congress as an unalloyed social good. With every aspect of Big Tech’s behavior now under review, perhaps it’s also a good time to revisit its “patent troll” narrative. This is the notion, unlikely on the face of it, that somehow...

Twitter on Wednesday banned President Trump from tweeting until he deletes a tweet about the Coronavirus that the tech company says violates its “rules against misinformation.” This is happening in an election year during a pandemic. Where is the DOJ? Where are the Republican lawmakers? The Washington Post reported that Twitter banned President Trump over his tweet of a video clip of a Fox News interview in which he said children are “almost immune” from Covid-19. Twitter hid the post and said he will not be able to tweet from his account until he deletes it, although he can appeal.

NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci, facing harsh criticism for his response to the Coronavirus outbreak, has a daughter named Alison (“Ali”) who is a software engineer for Twitter. This comes as Silicon Valley increasingly cracks down on so-called misinformation about the virus from truth-minded individuals who do not automatically accept what the experts like Fauci have to say.

Fauci has been married to fellow doctor and AIDS expert Christine Grady since 1985. They have three grown daughters. Fauci told Politico he believes the current crisis will leave a scar on the nation as whole. “I could hear it in the inflections in my daughters’ voices when I speak with them on the phone. This is going to be imprinted on the personality of our nation for a very long time. I think this is going to be something that will be with them and have some impact, subconsciously or otherwise, for a very long time in their lives.”...

The FBI were able to track down three hackers who pulled off the largest Twitter breach in history because they were 'extremely sloppy' with how they moved their Bitcoin transactions around. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, of Tampa, Florida; Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando, Florida; and Mason Sheppard, 19, of Bognor Regis, U.K. have all be charged in relation to the hack, which took place on July 15. On that date, the men conspired to hijack Twitter accounts belonging to famous figures and companies - including Barack Obama, Kanye West and Uber - before they posted tweets asking for donations to...

A Florida teenager is accused of being behind the Twitter hack earlier this month that resulted in several prominent accounts posting messages as part of an apparent bitcoin scam. Local NBC affiliate WFLA reported Friday that Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren filed 30 felony charges against the 17-year-old for “scamming people across America” regarding the hacking incident. "We appreciate the swift actions of law enforcement in this investigation and will continue to cooperate as the case progresses," Twitter said in a statement Friday. The hack, which took place July 15, affected a number of prominent Twitter accounts, including those for...

On Monday, the Department of Commerce, as directed by President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship, filed a petition to clarify the scope of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The petition requests that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) clarify that Section 230 does not permit social media companies that alter or editorialize users’ speech to escape civil liability. The petition also requests that the FCC clarify when an online platform curates content in “good faith,” and requests transparency requirements on their moderation practices, similar to requirements imposed on broadband service providers under Title...

In May we reported on our concerns with contact tracing and our loss of freedom as a result of this practice. We reported that contact tracers will track you and tell you what you can and cannot do. You will be a puppet of the state. You must do what they say for the greater good. Freedom will be lost forever. We reported that Democrat states were promoting the idea of “contact tracing” and when you realize what it is, you will think you are living in Orwell’s 1984. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot cheered the news that Chicago was...

Breitbart data analysis proves that Google has squashed their and other conservative site's ability to reach outside our bubble. Just another example that Big Tech has the power to manufacture public opinion and aren't afraid to use it. Republican's inaction here is also another thing that makes one wonder whether they really want Trump to win or to stop the Dems from tearing everything down.

Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google have donated vast sums of money to members of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee in advance of its Big Tech hearing on Wednesday. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administration Law will hold a hearing on Wednesday, which will feature testimony from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This arises as Republicans and Democrats have become increasingly critical of the big tech’s dominance on the Internet; however, big tech companies’ donations to members of the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust may...

House Judiciary hearing on Antitrust Law. Testimony from CEOs: Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) Tim Cook (Apple) Jeff Bezos (Amazon) Sundar Pichai (Google) LIVE at noon ET on C-SPAN3, C-SPAN Radio & online here: https://cs.pn/2ZOpjex

"While the rest of us were sleeping, or in the case of so many of our Senators taking payoffs from Google, a tiny number of left-wing corporations took virtually complete control of all news and information in this country." Video...

The Trump administration moved forward with plans to regulate content on social-media platforms Monday, formally asking federal regulators to start overseeing how these platforms treat user-generated content. In a petition to the Federal Communications Commission, the Commerce Department called for an FCC rule-making to reinterpret key elements of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. That provision has given online companies broad immunity from legal liability for their users’ actions, and wide latitude to police content on their sites. “Unfortunately, large online platforms appear to engage in selective censorship that is harming our national discourse,” the petition says. “The...