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On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and three medical experts took a blowtorch to Google for banning from YouTube a video of them discussing COVID-19 science.“They say it’s misinformation even though Google and YouTube routinely host conspiracy theory videos ranging from the cause of the 9/11 attacks to the role that 5G networks play in causing COVID-19,” DeSantis said in a press conference. “You can pretty much find any misinformation under the sun on Google/YouTube.” He blasted them for acting as a “big tech council of censors in service of the ruling elite.”Last week, Google pulled a video of DeSantis...

Corporate giants would be barred from acquisitions and century-old antitrust laws would get sharper teeth under a new proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) shared exclusively with Axios. The big picture: Hawley is among the Senate's most conservative members, but his attack on corporate power wouldn't sound out of place on Elizabeth Warren's or Bernie Sanders' agenda. That's how deeply Republicans' anger at what they see as out-of-control "censorship" by Big Tech and overreaching activism by "woke corporations" has alienated some of the party from its traditional big-business base. Details: Hawley's "Trust-Busting for the Twenty-First Century Act" would ... Ban...

The World Economic Forum – creators of The Great Reset – is pushing a Covid-19 'Mask of the Future'/'Smart Mask' engineered to monitor every breath you take. Taxing every breath you take is sure to come next. 'Mask of the Future' – dubbed the 'Smart Mask' – will control all physical movements of its wearers rather than protect them from the Coronavirus and its sure to come, many mutations. They call it "Breath Sensor Technology."

Julian Assange: The Internet has been transformed into a militarily occupied state "When all of our private communications are swept up - available only to a select few - then we're in a situation where we have a tank on the street of the inner core of our lives" #FreeAssangeNOW

In 2018 Google helped the Chinese Communists develop a social credit scoring system. The scoring system, first announced in 2014, rates China’s one billion citizens based on their behavior and associations. Already, nine million people with low scores have been blocked from buying tickets for domestic flights and trains.As horrible as this sounds the Silicon Valley tech giants are using a similar system here in the United States.It is clear these tech giants are colluding to target certain prominent conservatives.And Facebook is using offline behavior to factor into their scoring system.In 2019 Breitbart’s Allum Bokhari revealed that Facebook is using...

A realignment, as many have observed, is now unfolding in American politics. The Republican Party and its conservatism is now the home for the "Somewheres," to borrow the term from David Goodhart's 2017 book, "The Road to Somewhere," which refers to the more traditionalist, hardscrabble patriots of the American heartland. The Democratic Party and its increasingly hard-left progressivism, by contrast, is the home for the "Anywheres" -- those highly educated, mobile, "woke" elites comprising the bicoastal ruling class. The Big Tech issue is the tip of the spear of the realignment. As has been made painfully obvious the last few...

Indiana Attorney General has begun investigations into five Big Tech corporations for censorship of conservative content involving Joe Biden’s nominee, Vanita Gupta. The probe includes companies Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter over whether they have “harmed Indiana consumers through business practices that are abusive, deceptive and/or unfair.” Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said, “In a free society, few assets are more important to consumers than access to information and the opportunity to express political viewpoints in meaningful forums.” Adding, “It is potentially harmful and unfair for these companies to manipulate content in ways they do not publicly discuss or...

It started as one of those ridiculous controversies of the Trump era. In May and June 2017, then-President Donald Trump blocked a few Twitter trolls who were criticizing his tweets. The next month, those trolls, backed by Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, sued the president, alleging that blocking them on Twitter violated the First Amendment. The key question was whether Trump's 89-million-follower Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, was an official public space, where Trump would be subject to accusations he violated his followers' First Amendment right to respond to him, or whether it was a private space where Trump could do...

Justice Clarence Thomas suggested on Monday that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that, he said, have come to have "unbridled control" over "unprecedented" amounts of speech. The provocative and controversial opinion comes as Twitter banned former President Donald Trump from its platform for violating its rules on incitement of violence and some conservatives have called on more regulations in the tech world to combat what they view as political bias on social media. "If part of the problem is private, concentrated control over online content and platforms available to the public,...

The Supreme Court issued an order today that President Donald Trump is now free to block whomever he chooses on Twitter, which will be difficult now that the liberal social media web site has banned his account. But ( an opinion Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued) is drawing significant attention. Thomas warned Big Tech that legislatures or the Supreme Court may soon have to step in and stop social media platforms for denying free speech rights to pro-life conservatives — saying places like Facebook and Twitter are silence people “at any time for any or no reason.”“As Twitter made...

The Internet was supposed to bring with it a renaissance, a new enlightenment and a brighter future. It was to be a time when people became smarter, having access to the collective knowledge of humanity at their fingertips, and with the invention of the smart phone, in their pocket, always. What could go wrong? A lot, it turns out. Actually, just about everything. The promise was not kept. All we ended up with was a bunch of narcissists desperate to share pictures of the food they're eating and demanding validation for their existence from everyone else. Scroll through social media...

The American Conservative wrote an article recently that showed just how much money Mark Zuckerberg alone spent on rigging the 2020 Election. He funneled money through The Center for Technology and Civic Life to pay for voting strategies to benefit Joe Biden and the Democrats, which actually led to the illegal changing of the laws without the approval of the legislative branch of these states. As Conservatives, we’ve been leaving Big Tech and Social Media in droves because of their censorship and deplatforming. Even here at Freedom First Network, we’ve experienced our share of Cancel Culture from both YouTube and...

Google has made millions of its users the targets of a test for a new ad program without informing them, warns a privacy activist group. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said Google's test trial of its Federated Learning of Cohorts without consent "is a concrete breach of user trust in service of a technology that should not exist." Under the program, Google Chrome browsers "will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group labels with third-party trackers and advertisers around the web." "Although Google announced this was coming, the company has been sparse with details about the...

Set designers were finally able to draw fans into their vivid dream without the constraints of Newtonian physics. Yet virtual reality isn't all wonder.Pandemic lockdowns crushed the concert industry, but things are finally starting to move again. Many of us are optimistic that dense crowds might gather regularly by mid-autumn. The process is already starting in red states. Once everybody who’s anybody “takes the jab,” mass events should spread slowly across the country.All over the world, people are dying for another taste of what Émile Durkheim called “collective effervescence”: the intense thrill we get from a mass gathering with a...

The social media platform YouTube is engaging in the duplicitous practice of scrubbing dislikes from Biden videos to protect the president’s political image, new data reveals. The data, obtained by the Epoch Times, shows that YouTube has deleted an astounding 2.5 million dislikes from Biden’s videos. “YouTube has deleted about 2.5 million ‘dislikes’ from videos on the official White House channel of President Joe Biden, according to data collected and posted online by a researcher who wished to remain anonymous,” the Epoch Times reported. “YouTube recently announced that it’s testing a new page design that hides the dislike count.” “The...

Microsoft: "We are concerned by the law’s impact on communities of color, on every voter, and on our employees and their families. "We share the views of other corporate leaders that it’s not only right but essential for the business community to stand together in opposition to the harmful provisions and other similar legislation that may be considered elsewhere."

The White House is working on a COVID-19 vaccine passport initiative that could be required for travel, sporting events and even eating out, reports The Washington Post. The report comes as major U.S. airlines and nearly 30 travel and labor groups are pushing President Joe Biden to develop a standardized, government-backed credential to "accelerate safe economic activity and recovery." "The U.S. must be a leader in this development," the groups wrote in a letter to COVID-19 Recovery Team Coordinator Jeff Zients on Monday. "The current diverse and fragmented digital health credentials used to implement different countries' air travel testing requirements...

On Wednesday, a new conservative coalition launched a website aimed at combatting “woke” capital and cancel culture. StopCorporateTyranny.org aims to educate Americans on the dangers of far-Left advocacy in corporate America and equip them to fight back against the swelling tide of the “woke” inquisition. The coalition, Back to Neutral, includes organizations and leaders fed up with the Left weaponizing big business to achieve its political goals.“We’ve watched with growing concern the Left’s efforts to infiltrate corporate boardrooms and use that power to force their agenda on Americans everywhere,” Justin Danhof, general counsel at the National Center for Public Policy...

Facebook and Instagram removed an interview with former President Donald Trump by his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, simply because it “featured Trump speaking” and the “voice of Donald Trump,” Facebook said in an internal email. As big tech companies continue their bid to cancel the ex-commander-in-chief, audio from the podcast “The Right View With Lara Trump,” was yanked from Facebook Tuesday night and reportedly later removed by Instagram. Lara Trump, who also contributes to Fox News, shared a screenshot of an email sent by a Facebook employee, saying the company would be taking down the interview.

On Tuesday, Lara Trump, a Fox News contributor, posted an image on Instagram of her sitting across from her father-in-law, urging followers to "Join us tonight!" A group of Trump officials were sent an email from a Facebook employee, warning that any content posted on Facebook and Instagram "in the voice of President Trump is not currently allowed on our platforms (including new posts with President Trump speaking)" and warned that it "will be removed if posted, resulting in additional limitations on accounts that posted it." "This guidance applies to all campaign accounts and Pages, including Team Trump, other campaign...