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The Trudeau Liberals intend to censor the internet this fall through two pieces of legislation within the first 100 days of their new mandate. Parliamentary debate is expected to raise questions on the role of government in regulating the online behaviour of Canadians. Bill C-10 An Act To Amend The Broadcasting Act lapsed in the Senate communications committee of the previous Parliament. The bill proposed to have YouTube videos intended for private viewing regulated as public broadcasts by the CRTC. The arts community strongly supports the legislation, but critics raised freedom of speech concerns. Opposition MPs amended C-10, and Bloc...

Very shocked that @YouTube has completely removed the Channel of my Ron Paul Institute: no warning, no strikes, no evidence. Only explanation was "severe or repeated violations of our community guidelines." Channel is rarely used. The appeal was automatically rejected. Help?

The September 29 lead headline on Drudge Report was even more apocalyptic and alarming than normal, featuring a giant YouTube logo, front and center, covered by a red “cancel” circle. The headline declared, “YOUTUBE BANS ALL ‘ANTI-VAX’ CONTENT.’” Secondary headlines also sounded ominous tones: “Sydney warns unvaccinated face total social isolation IDEFINITELY when lockdown ends . . .”; “UNITED AIRLINES firing employees who refuse shot”; “Biden Order Mandate Enforcement With Up To $700,000 Fine . . .” – and more. Are things really as bad as they seem? In a word, yes. But let me say at the outset that...

YouTube on Wednesday continued to follow the lead of its evil “don’t be evil” parent company Google and announced it would be banning videos that contain what it calls “vaccine misinformation.” The statement itself, ironically, contains vaccine misinformation. The announcement came in the form of a blog post on Wednesday:Working closely with health authorities, we looked to balance our commitment to an open platform with the need to remove egregious harmful content. We’ve steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and we’re now at a point where it’s more important than...

The internet connectivity on older tech devices and smart gadgets could stop working on Thursday after a key digital certificate required to access websites safely expires. Let's Encrypt, a nonprofit organization that is the largest issuer of digital certificates — which encrypts and protects the connection between devices and websites on the internet — will be forced to expire one of its most popular digital certificates, the IdentTrust DST Root CA X3, on Sept. 30.... ...This problem has flown under the radar of many manufacturers, including Big Tech companies Apple, Google, Sony, and Microsoft — none of which have made...

Announcement from Youtube — Press Release: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/managing-harmful-vaccine-content-youtube/ Dr. Joseph Mercola and Robert Kennedy jr have been banned… BREAKING: @YouTube to block anti-vaccine content, ban channels from prominent anti-vaxxers like @mercola & @RobertKennedyJr. Story: @GerritDhttps://t.co/y97ZXAGsgk pic.twitter.com/pyyZWRxYp3 — John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) September 29, 2021 YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who experts say are partially responsible for helping seed the skepticism that’s contributed to slowing vaccination rates across the country. As part of a...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who this month signed a bill that aims to restrict the editorial discretion of social media platforms, says the new law "protects Texans from wrongful censorship" and thereby upholds their First Amendment rights. The law, H.B. 20, is scheduled to take effect on Dec. 2, but that probably will not happen because it is blatantly unconstitutional and inconsistent with federal law. Abbott, a former Texas Supreme Court justice who served as his state's attorney general from 2002 to 2015, presumably knows that. But whether he is sincerely mistaken or cynically catering to his party's base, H.B....

Silence on destructive behavior and the bullying of city employees into complianceWe've been busy lately. All sorts of stuff going on. With all of the information suppression going on, we find ourselves with more free time than usual.What information suppression? Well, without giving away too much from our alternative media friends, it seems that our recent piece welcoming John Kass to the fight regarding lack of reporting the politics of crime issues was stifled quite heavily on social media. To wit, one of our friends reported traffic was down on their social media account by an astonishing 66 percent when...

I am authorizing FLSecofState and the Florida Department of State to open an investigation into Facebook’s alleged election interference through its whitelisting program. Floridians deserve to know how much Big Tech has influenced our elections.

Climate activist James Murdoch gave at least $1 million to a group fighting to undermine state oversight of elections. That same group also backed Big Tech censorship against former President Donald Trump. Murdoch — son of News Corporation Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch, — funded several equally leftist causes during the 2020 election. His philanthropic organization — Quadrivium Foundation — gave at least $1 million to the Protect Democracy Project (PDP) according to its 2019 990. PDP is the sister organization of the left-wing United to Protect Democracy (UPD). In 2020, PDP filed a lawsuit on behalf of leftist organizations over...

NEW: Facebook and Instagram have taken down Project Veritas’ video on 'vaccine side-effects'

On September 20, AD 2011, my father, Fred J. Di Leo, passed away at the age of 80. Dad was special, in many ways… An active member of his parish, a retired middle manager at Standard Oil of Indiana, a wonderful actor in Park Ridge community theater in the 1970s and 80s. Dad had been a competitive pistol marksman in the 1950s, then a park commissioner and Republican party activist in Evanston in the 1960s and 70s, and his life was full of thousands of wonderful moments, so many wonderful anecdotes to remember him by. Normally, I write a Facebook...

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law Thursday barring social media companies from wrongfully censoring users "based on their political beliefs." The new legislation aims to hold Big Tech platforms accountable in an age when many large platforms increasingly use their status as private companies to silence conservative voices without consequence.

...In a post and a press release, the chief executive discussed Facebook Inc.’s initiatives to promote vaccines...For more than a month, Facebook researchers warned that comments on vaccine-related posts—often factual posts of the sort Facebook sought to promote—were filled with antivaccine rhetoric aimed at undermining their message, internal documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show. ...Users were seeing comments on vaccine-related posts 775 million times a day, the memo said, and Facebook researchers worried the large proportion of negative comments could influence perceptions of the vaccines’ safety. ...Despite Mr. Zuckerberg’s effort, a cadre of antivaccine activists flooded the network...

After being temporarily suspended from Twitter for questioning the COVID vaccine, pop star Nicki Minaj encouraged Americans to “open your * eyes” to the censorship currently happening in the West, adding that her ban made her think that “there’s something bigger” going on. Minaj, the Trinidadian-born pop star, had made global news in recent days, for tweeting in support of medical freedom, explaining that someone she knows became “impotent” after taking one of the controversial COVID vaccines and then urging her followers to pray and weigh the benefits of getting vaccinated. In response, globalist media outlets became enraged at the...

This is a follow up to a story from last month, with a new update as well. We told you about a company called FakeMaskUSA which fell victim to the tech tyrants, in this case PayPal. Our original reporting can be found below, but long story short is FakeMaskUSA had some $90,0000 in company assets that they had no means of recovering. This seems to be the way these companies do business, with them taking punitive action and for those punished having no means to fight back. For example, Facebook is famous for suspending accounts of people who violate their...

Sometimes people forget that politics is not like math or science – at least this is something that I am often guilty of. In Math a number, theorem, or proof mean something specific and reproducible. However, in politics the meaning of things is both malleable and blurry. For instance, Sen. Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, is currently participating in policy negotiations around legislation that Sen. Bernie Sanders D-VT (Someone who is left of most Democrats) is excited about. The negotiations are over antitrust bills, and while it sounds like Grassley is only in talks surrounding one of the bills –...

MOSCOW -- The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday summoned U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan, to complain about alleged interference by American “digital giants” in Russia’s upcoming parliamentary election. A ministry statement said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov claimed Russia "possesses irrefutable evidence of the violation of Russian legislation by American ‘digital giants’.... ....The statement did not give details of the complaint, but Russian authorities have pressured Google and Apple to remove apps of the Smart Voting initiative designed by the team of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The program aims to advise voters which candidates are in the best position to...

Last week, Reuters reported based on two anonymous sources that Amazon Web Services, which controls 40 percent of web hosting in the world, “plans to take a more proactive approach to determine what types of content violate its cloud service policies.”“Over the coming months, Amazon will hire a small group of people in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division to develop expertise and work with outside researchers to monitor for future threats, one of the sources familiar with the matter said. It could turn Amazon, the leading cloud service provider worldwide with 40% market share according to research firm Gartner,...

Google algorithms are automatically selecting videos from news channels to be censored from Australian viewers that it deems offensive, inaccurate or dangerous, a media diversity inquiry has heard. But the tech giant has defended the move, saying its parameters were set by global “trust and safety teams” based on the best evolving advice from governments, health authorities and community standards. The admission came during an inquiry by the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee into media diversity chaired by Senator Sarah Hanson-Young and a one-week YouTube ban on Sky News and the removal of 23 clips last year related to...