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Apple has removed a dating app for people who haven't had the vaccine for violating its policies for Covid-19 content. Unjected is a dating-and-community app for unvaccinated people. It was removed from the App Store this weekend and its Instagram was also disabled by the social media platform, in a move its owners likened its removal to censorship. The app was founded by two mothers from Hawaii Shelby Thomson, 27, and Heather Pyle, 37. In a video posted on Instagram on Saturday, Ms Thomson said: 'Apparently, we're considered "too much" for sharing our medical autonomy and freedom of choice. So,...

A Big Tech whistleblower said Google altered its algorithm in order to ensure that negative stories from the establishment media about former Present Donald Trump were what people saw when using the highest-trafficked website on the internet.Zach Vorhies, who previously worked for Google, said in an interview with The Epoch Times that the tech titan specifically tailored its news algorithm to harm the former president.Vorhies has written a book about his experience working at Google. He said he wanted to “take conspiracy theory and turn it into conspiracy fact” by sharing the practices he saw as a longtime former employee,...

The de-googled Android fork /e/OS is a passionate step towards removing Google from your daily driver (i.e. your smartphone).

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is partnered with a self-described “socialist” internet foundation run by the branch of the Chinese Communist Party spearheading its digital campaign to censor factual narratives and push fraudulent information about COVID-19. The two foundations inked a memorandum of understanding in 2015, pledging cooperation in areas including “public health”: According to the cooperation memorandum of understanding, the two parties will rely on new technologies such as the Internet to promote pragmatic cooperation in the fields of charity, public health, and international development, and work together to improve the quality of life of the poor and...

Are things bad in America when the Taliban Lectures us on Free Speech? Taliban Lectures America on our Lack of Free Speech

New Delhi (CNN Business)It's been two days since Kabul fell to the Taliban and social media giants are scrambling to figure out how to deal with the takeover of Afghanistan by the militants. On Tuesday, Facebook (FB) reiterated its ban on accounts praising, supporting, or representing the Taliban from its platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram, and said that it would remove "accounts maintained by or on behalf of the Taliban." "The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under US law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous Organization policies," a company spokesperson said.

In Twitter debates, people have no problem pointing to articles such as Newsweek’s: “White Supremacists Killed More Americans Than Muslim Extremists in Recent Years.” The article explains, “The mass shootings at a shopping center in El Paso, Texas, last August and at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand last March are just two high-profile examples [motivated by white supremacy].” But if you try to explain that this isn’t the whole story, you will get a warning from Twitter. On Saturday, after someone pointed to the Newsweek article, I responded that the El Paso and Christchurch murderers were both environmentalists/socialists who...

Facebook says it has banned the Taliban and all content supporting it from its platforms as it considers the group to be a terrorist organisation. The company says it has a dedicated team of Afghan experts to monitor and remove content linked to the group. For years, the Taliban has used social media to spread its messages. Its rapid takeover of Afghanistan raises fresh challenges for technology firms on how to deal with content related to the group. "The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under US law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous...

YouTube is a private company. The First Amendment does not require it to honor First Amendment rights. However, when a gargantuan conglomerate can essentially eliminate the opinions of senators, justifying its actions under the guise of dispelling misinformation, it borders on totalitarianism. “I’m not sure when YouTube became an arm of the government, and I’m not really sure it’s good for journalism to also be an arm of the government without any repercussions or push back,” Paul said on a conference call last week. Moreover, this type of thing only seems to happen to Republicans and conservatives. For example, when...

Zabihullah Mujahid is the official Spokesman of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Majahid has been tweeting out The Taliban terrorists storming Kabul. But Twitter won’t allow President Trump or top conservatives including this website from running a page on their platform.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — There are plenty of places to turn for accurate information about COVID-19. Your physician. Local health departments. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control. But not, perhaps, your local government’s public comment session. During a meeting of the St. Louis County Council earlier this month, opponents of a possible mask mandate made so many misleading comments about masks, vaccines and COVID-19 that YouTube removed the video for violating its policies against false claims about the virus. “I hope no one is making any medical decisions based on what they hear at our public forums,” said County...

Google whistleblower Zach Vorhis says Google altered its news algorithm to directly target former President Donald Trump. Vorhis was a senior software engineer at YouTube and Google. He left after discovering the companies censored conservatives. Vorhis’ new book, Google Leaks: A Whistleblower’s Exposé of Big Tech Censorship, took a deep dive into Big Tech’s censorship of right-of-center conservatives: The madness of Big Tech and their attempt to mold our reality into a version compatible with their globalist view of the world has never been portrayed better than in this chilling account by Google whistleblower, Zach Vorhies. As a senior engineer...

Rumble — From Mike Lindell's Symposium, Dr. Shiva gives shocking testimony about how big tech and big Government censored him while running for U.S. Senate. MUST WATCH!

A New York Times story about the "rift" between Facebook and the Biden administration regarding COVID-19 "misinformation" illustrates the fuzziness of that category and the perils of suppressing it at the government's behest. While administration officials often claim they are just encouraging the social media platform to enforce its own rules, their idea of misinformation is not necessarily the same as Facebook's, and that cleavage shows that the government is imposing online censorship by proxy, pushing to expand the definition of intolerable speech. "We've engaged with Facebook since the transition on this issue," White House spokesman Mike Gwin tells the...

Manitoba medical student who was expelled after failing to satisfactorily apologize for his controversial views on guns and abortion has been granted a new adjudication of his expulsion. Rafael Zaki, a Coptic Orthodox student at the University of Manitoba who was supposed to graduate in 2022, posted three items on his Facebook page in February 2019. He was expelled in August 2019. One year later, after losing two appeals within the university system, Zaki asked Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench to review the decision made by the University Discipline Committee. Zaki said he was expelled “for holding conscientious and religious...

@ggreenwaldWhat has happened is what some tried to warn would happen but it's worse than most of us realized: When people like Alex Jones and Milo started getting de-personed from the internet, most cheered. In 4 short years, we're now at the point where almost no dissent is allowed. Just look at the number of liberals cheering and justifying YouTube's suspension of Rand Paul for his comments on masks -- ones echoed by Biden's own former COVID adviser -- and you'll see why this faction is completely authoritarian. They crave corporate speech policing. There was always an authoritarian strain in...

Last week, YouTube censored a video posted by Sen. Rand Paul for contradicting government guidelines on masks. On Tuesday, YouTube removed the video and suspended the senator's account for seven days, as reported by The Daily Wire (where you can also watch the banned video). Paul told Liberty Tree that he considered being banned by YouTube a "badge of honor" and scorned the "leftwing cretins at Youtube banning me for seven days for a video that quotes two peer reviewed articles saying cloth masks don’t work." Paul said in a video in which he responded to YouTube's actions, “Censorship by...

Sometimes art imitates life and sometimes life imitates art. Today we are living the latter… and it’s called The Terminator. Little did we know when we first watched Arnold utter “I’ll be back” in 1984 that we were watching our real future. For those who don’t remember, Terminator was set in 1984 Los Angeles when a cyborg is sent back from 2029 to kill Sarah Connor. The premise is that at some point Skynet, an artificial intelligence defense system, had gained self-awareness and launched a nuclear war in its effort to destroy civilization and the humans who built it. A...

Matthew Pottinger, a former national security advisor to President Trump, revealed in Senate testimony this week that the Chinese Communist Party has enough stolen data on American citizens to “build a dossier on every single American adult.” During a Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing, Pottinger detailed the extent to which China has stolen data from the United States to undertake an enormous surveillance operation of foreign citizens, including Americans. “Assembling dossiers on people has always been a feature of Leninist regimes, but Bejing’s penetration of digital networks worldwide, including using 5G networks … has really taken this to a new...