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  • ‘Never-Before-Released’ Facebook Files Show Biden Regime Knowingly Violated Americans’ Rights

    07/27/2023 1:08:47 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    Becker News ^ | July 27, 2023 | Kyle Becker
    Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has disclosed “never-before-released” Facebook files that show indisputably that the Biden White House knowingly violated Americans’ First Amendment rights by asking the social media platform to censor constitutionally protected speech. Jim Jordan’s remarks, as released in a Twitter thread, are shared verbatim below: “Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House. During the first half of 2021, social media companies like Facebook faced tremendous pressure from the Biden White House—both publicly and...
  • Video: Mitt Romney Argues That It Shouldn’t Be Illegal For Government To Use Big Tech For Censorship

    07/27/2023 11:07:35 AM PDT · by CFW · 48 replies
    Summit news ^ | 7/27/23 | Steve Watson
    During a Senate hearing Wednesday, Mitt Romney argued against an amendment proposed by Rand Paul to make it illegal for government to use social media and big tech companies to censor the views of Americans. Paul put forth the case that “the First Amendment really isn’t about protecting the speech of government workers the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law it’s about limitations on government involvement with speech.” Paul continued, “if Twitter says bad things about me and puts up bad things and takes me down I have no recourse against Twitter, same with Facebook. I’m mad, I...
  • New Zealand’s former COVID tyrant Jacinda Ardern appointed to censorship role at Harvard

    07/26/2023 11:12:23 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 15 replies
    Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has been rewarded with a prestigious fellowship at Harvard University.As the Berkman Klein Center (the Center) at Harvard reports, “The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is thrilled to announce Jacinda Ardern as its first Knight Tech Governance Leadership Fellow.”Ardern herself claims she will “address online harms… and violent extremism online,” explaining that “Emerging technologies such as AI present huge opportunities to address online harms, but also challenges.” (snip)Ardern’s new appointment is not an academic sinecure. A loyal servant of divisive repression, she has been drafted into an...
  • Pew Research: Democrats Value Free Speech Far Less Than Republicans

    07/25/2023 11:08:47 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 27 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | July 25, 2023 | Dennis Prager
    Pew Research: Democrats Value Free Speech Far Less Than RepublicansIn case you were in doubt—and if you were in doubt, that means you aren’t following what is happening in America to the most important freedom of all—Pew Research has confirmed that Democrats value free speech far less than Republicans do.Read the following statistics and conclusions and weep for our country:“The share of U.S. adults who say the federal government should restrict false information has risen from 39% in 2018 to 55% in 2023.”“Just over half of Americans (55%) support the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information online, even...
  • The climate witch trials. Questioning the climate-change narrative is now the ultimate form of heresy.

    07/24/2023 8:23:24 AM PDT · by Chad C. Mulligan · 10 replies
    Spiked ^ | 22 Jul 2023 | Brendan O'Neill
    In 1590, in Scotland, an elderly woman named Agnes Sampson was arrested. She was from East Lothian. Earlier in her life she had been a midwife and a healer, but lately she had been living in poverty. She was tried, found guilty and taken to Edinburgh Castle where, on 28 January 1591, she was strangled to death by rope and then burnt at the stake. Her offence? Climate change. RTWT - Long read but worth it
  • USA Today Journo: Lack of Twitter Censorship Leads to 2024 Election Disinformation

    07/23/2023 4:19:26 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 6 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | July 21, 2023 | P.J. Gladnick
    It's not hard to figure out what is keeping USA Today "domestic security correspondent: Josh Meyer awake at night. The gnawing fear that a lack of censorship could lead to disinformation being spread during the 2024 election. This is reflected in his sprawling 2,618-word USA Today article on Wednesday, "Amid Elon Musk's Twitter changes, why 2024 presidential election threats now pose bigger risk."Their shortened version of the headline: "The 2024 election on Twitter: Are Elon Musk's changes posing a danger?" What is the danger? "Misinformation," according to nebulous unnamed "lawmakers and regulators, former Twitter executives, national security officials and other...
  • ‘Thorny Questions’: How the Democrats and Media Enablers Censor News

    07/23/2023 5:00:07 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 23 Jul, 2023 | Clarice Feldman
    Democrats in Congress and their legacy media enablers dropped their veils this week, revealing how dear they hold their desire and capacity to censor truth. Democrats in Congress and their legacy media enablers dropped their veils this week, revealing how dear they hold their desire and capacity to censor truth. The drop came during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony about vaccines and shows how frightened they are that he may out-primary their demented puppet Joe Biden and his cackling numbskull veep. The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg tweeted: “Despite the theater, the hearing raised thorny questions about free speech...
  • Biden preparing to change rules to attack pro-life movement

    07/22/2023 6:56:59 PM PDT · by cuz1961 · 19 replies
    WND ^ | July 22, 2023
    Wants HIPAA expanded to undermine state laws ...The Biden administration is preparing an expansion to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)... ...the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is preparing the final draft of the new rule, called the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, under the Office of Civil Rights... ...At least 18 attorneys general have already begun demanding that the Biden administration refrain from implementing the new rule. “The administration has sought to wrest control over abortion back from the people in defiance of the Constitution and Dobbs,”
  • NYC to Pay Rioters $13 Million [semi-satire]

    07/22/2023 3:45:23 PM PDT · by John Semmens · 4 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 23 July 2023 | John Semmens
    In a lawsuit alleging police brutality in their response to vandalism, arson, and assaults committed in New York City by persons protesting the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, New York City has agreed to pay each of the arrested rioters $10,000 rather than go to trial. Elena Cohen, the chief attorney for the plaintiffs, argued that "the arrests violated the demonstrators freedom of speech and assembly. The City's contention that setting police cars on fire, vandalizing precinct houses, throwing rocks, bricks, bottles at and stabbing, punching, and biting officers, and lobbing gasoline...
  • YouTube Is Pulling 'Sound Of Freedom' Interviews, Reviews For ‘Violating Community Guidelines’

    07/20/2023 10:21:15 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 31 replies
    Summit News ^ | 07/20/2023 | Steve Watson
    YouTube appears to be removing content featuring or even merely reviewing the movie ‘Sound Of Freedom’ for ‘violating community guidelines’ as censorship of the anti-child trafficking movie continues.Former Navy SEAL and CIA Contractor Shawn Ryan posted screenshots of the backend of his YouTube account, showing that a 2 and a half minute preview video of an upcoming interview with the film’s star Jim Caviezel has been removed.YouTube has also declared the content titled ‘Actor Jim Caviezel Unveils Dark Truths Behind The Trafficking Of Children’ as ‘Ineligible’ for monetization.YouTube pulled my preview of Jim Caviezel’s episode for “violating community guidelines”. I...
  • RFK, Jr. wants me jailed … as a war criminal

    10/04/2014 5:10:07 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 18 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 4, 2014 | Paul Driessen
    The “people’s climate march” was notable for the amazing energy, economic and climate illiteracy displayed by the mostly young people parading along New York City streets September 21. Their chants, rants and placards demanded that we stop climate change (that’s been ongoing throughout Earth and human history), eliminate fossil fuels (that supply 80% of the energy that makes their modern living standards possible), ban fracking (which is largely responsible for reducing the carbon dioxide emissions they blame for global warming that ended at least 18 years ago), and abolish capitalism! Some of the absurdities can be enjoyed here, here, here...
  • RFK Jr. Says AGW Skeptics Should Be Silenced

    07/12/2007 12:27:42 PM PDT · by chessplayer · 76 replies · 3,004+ views
    CAVUTO: "All right, well, Robert, what do you think of that? Is it wise, on your part, if someone disagrees with you, Robert, to go after their advertisers, to essentially shut John up?" KENNEDY: "Absolutely, I think, I mean, you know, the air waves are owned by the public. The airwaves are licensed to the broadcasters, but the broadcasters are obligated to use those airwaves primarily to promote the public interest and to advance our democracy. If you are lying to people about science, about the impact of things like global warming, it's something that you should be challenged on....
  • Dem Stacey Plaskett Defends Censorship: ‘Free Speech Is Not an Absolute’

    07/20/2023 6:59:46 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 45 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/20/2023 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) defended censorship on Thursday, arguing that certain views should not enjoy the free speech protections of the First Amendment, which she said was limited by the Supreme Court. Plaskett, the ranking member of the minority on the House Weaponization Subcommittee, attacked the alleged views of one of the witnesses, Democratic Party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, calling them hateful. “This is not the free speech that I know of,” she said. She recalled a recent controversy over remarks Kennedy made about the coronavirus affecting some population groups more than others, among other past comments.
  • Principal knowingly flouted SCOTUS by suspending student for posting memes off campus: lawsuit

    07/20/2023 5:29:30 AM PDT · by CFW · 17 replies
    Just the News ^ | 7/19/23 | Greg Piper
    Two years after the Supreme Court sharply limited the authority of school districts over their students when not on campus or at school-sponsored programs, a high school principal faces a lawsuit alleging he suspended a student for unflattering social media posts about him, despite having known the legal precedent. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed a First and Fourteenth amendments lawsuit on behalf of the rising senior, known only by his initials I.P., against Tennessee's Tullahoma City Schools, recently departed Principal Jason Quick and Assistant Principal Derrick Crutchfield. Because the suspension is on the student's permanent record, it...
  • Trade Commission’s Retaliation Against Twitter Is More Proof The Biden Admin Is Violating The First Amendment

    07/18/2023 7:51:12 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 2 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 07/18/2023 | Jordan Boyd
    Biden punishing a censor-gone-rogue like Twitter removes all remaining doubt that the First Amendment is under attack by the government.President Joe Biden’s administration repeatedly insists it is not violating the First Amendment in its attempts to control Americans’ speech using Big Tech. The regime’s recent targeting of Elon Musk and Twitter via weaponization of the Federal Trade Commission, however, suggests otherwise. Why else would it punish the social media company as soon as its incoming CEO pledged to roll back censorship on his app?In light of a federal judge’s recent ruling that barred the Biden administration from colluding with Big...
  • Ending Free Speech

    07/17/2023 2:15:46 PM PDT · by PoliticallyShort · 4 replies
    TomKlingenstein ^ | 07/14/23 | Kenin M. Spivak
    On Independence Day, Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden that blocks the White House and numerous federal agencies from communicating with social media companies for “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.” The Government filed a Notice of Appeal, and requested a stay on enforcement of the injunction until its appeal is decided. Doughty denied the stay, though he nominally clarified the injunction’s scope. The Government then filed for an emergency stay with the Fifth Circuit...
  • Son of Canadian pastor gets standing ovation in EU Parliament as he slams PM Justin Trudeau for taking 'freedom and democracy' away from citizens - as his father faces jail time for sermon to truckers blocking US-Canada border last year

    07/16/2023 4:05:22 PM PDT · by algore · 21 replies
    The son of a Canadian pastor who faces jail time for preaching to truckers who blocked the US-Canada border last year received a standing ovation in EU Parliament as he slammed PM Justin Trudeau for taking 'freedom and democracy' away from citizens. Nathaniel Pawlowski's father Artur Pawlowski potentially faces 10 years in prison after he delivered a 19-minute speech to truckers who were protesting federal vaccine mandates by blocking the border in early 2022. 'I am here today in desperation, a cry for help,' Pawlowski, 23, told members of the EU Parliament on July 4. 'I would like to stand...
  • Why I’ll Never Be Allowed to Teach at USC Again. A leading American institution can no longer tolerate dissent.

    07/16/2023 4:45:26 AM PDT · by karpov · 9 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | July 14, 2023 | James E. Moore, II
    After 36 years as a full-time faculty member, I retired as a tenured professor from the University of Southern California on May 15, 2022. Retiring faculty members typically retain as an honorary title their last academic rank, for example “professor emeritus.” The designation is not automatic but pro forma in most circumstances. I watched as the members of my retirement cohort announced their new emeritus or emerita status to the rest of us in turn. At USC, the emeritus designation “indicates honorable retirement from assigned duties, recognizes faithful service worthy of high commendation, and expresses an anticipation of continued membership...
  • The Fact-Check Racket Finally Unravels: It’s all become ridiculously predictable...

    07/15/2023 8:20:56 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 07/15/2023 | Jeffrey Tucker
    Before the COVID lockdowns, social media companies had started contracting with new third-parties organizations called fact-checkers to assist in “content creation.” Getting a pass meant the post or story was amplified but getting dinged for inaccuracy meant that the post would be throttled or deleted.For a while we believed it but certain revelations changed that. We came to realize that the posts labeled false were typically contrary to regime narratives. And a close look at the supposed refutation revealed that many points were very much in dispute. The companies developed a talent for seeming to reveal something false that was...
  • Biden's new military boost in Europe foretells a new censorship state for Americans

    07/15/2023 5:57:40 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 12 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 14 Jul, 2023 | David Zukerman
    Just what the most repressive U.S. administration since Woodrow Wilson's ordered: a military buildup to draw us closer into a hot war with Russia, which will have the bonus for this Despotic Clique of providing the excuse for FBI head Christopher Wray to order a ruthless crackdown on political dissent, not to mention refusal to comply with congressional oversight requests. Here are the lede paragraphs in Politico's report on this startling development of a U.S. military buildup. Not that this just happened to occur hours after word broke of House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan's letter to Wray calling for...