“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability… Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules that better conformed to the officials’…
Have you ever taken a close look at my banner? Do you see the colorized image of a man with his arms crossed? His name is August Landmesser, an anti-Nazi hero whose image I highlight on my website and social…
I’ve written a lot about the Republican war against social media and free speech, but in a press briefing at the White House yesterday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted that Joe Biden and Republicans have become allies in that war.…
Conservative relativism, where conservatism and conservative values are negotiable based on the politics of the situation, is alive and well following recent news concerning social media bans. After the QAnon-led insurrection in Washington last week, social media companies like Facebook…
Donald Trump and the Republican Party have always been enemies of the First Amendment, specifically free speech and a free press, which is one reason why they have pushed to give government the power to punish social media and other big…
With the 2018 election approaching, what would you do if you were Trump and the GOP and you have broken every major 2016 campaign promise while subsequently accomplishing virtually nothing in the way of actual policy outcomes even though you…
By now I’m sure you’ve heard about how Apple, Facebook, YouTube, and others have removed Alex Jones and his Infowars program from their platforms recently for violating their code of conduct regarding the use of so-called hate speech. While Jones’…
