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Jan 12, 2021 ~ Twitter 'strongly condemns' censorship in Uganda.  Especially ahead of an election. Also Twitter: Negative stories about Joe Biden ahead of the US Presidential Election are banned on our site. And we'll shut down the account of any News organization writing any such stories. [Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]
Jan 11, 2021 ~ Alexey Navalny on banning Trump, 'We have seen many examples  in Russian and China of such private companies becoming the state's best friends and the enablers when it comes to censorship... This precedent will be exploited by the enemies of freedom of speech around the world.' [Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]
Jan 11, 2021 ~ For years, people have told conservatives who complained about censorship on FaceBook and Twitter to build their own platform. So they built Parler but then Apple, Google and Amazon conspired to shut down Parler. Bottom line is that Big Tech will not allow conservatives to speak. [Cancel Culture, Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]
Jan 11, 2021 ~ Lawyer Lin Wood is one of the reasons Parler has been canceled by big tech. Made posts such as this: 'Get the firing squads ready. Pence goes FIRST.' Calls to violence should never be allowed. The post was removed by Parler. Twitter is no better or faster at removing threats. [Cancel Culture, Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Censorship, Violent Right]
Jan 11, 2021 ~ The House will Impeach Trump for the 5th time, this time for calling for peaceful protests. Alan Dershowitz, 'to impeach a president for having exercised his First Amendment rights would be so dangerous to the Constitution. It would lie around like a loaded weapon' for either party. [Free Speech, Impeachment, Silencing]
Jan 10, 2021 ~ Matt Walsh, 'Facebook and Twitter engaged in an ideological purge, forcing conservatives to Parler. At which point Apple, Amazon, and Google teamed up to kneecap Parler and drive the heretical voices out of the public square completely.' I.e. alternative sites also banned. [Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]
Jan 10, 2021 ~ Apple, Google and Amazon shut down the Parler app, the only real competitor to Twitter and Facebook. This goes far beyond Twitter, Facebook censoring their own sites. Now big tech is shutting down independent sites. FYI Twitter has always allowed calls for Trump to be killed. [Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship, Violent Left, Violent Right]
Jan 8, 2021 ~ The great purge has begun. Twitter and Facebook bans Trump and others. Apple and Google are banning Parler app. The #WalkAway movement has been banned from Facebook along with their thousands of testimonials. #Silencing [Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]
Dec 20, 2020 ~ Doug Bandow, 'Are You Committing Blasphemy?'84 countries have blasphemy laws, almost all are Muslim majority nations. 'Due process for defendants is often entirely absent. Attorneys who represent accused blasphemers are sometimes killed. Judges who fail to convict face attack.' [Free Speech, Islam, Silencing]
Dec 19, 2020 ~ Chris Tomlinson, 'French Academic Under Police Protection After Criticizing Islam' 'Islam does not recognize freedom of conscience. It’s still absolutely terrifying.' Receiving death threats. Under police protection after a teacher was recently beheaded by Muslims in the area. [Free Speech, Islam, Silencing, Terrorism]
Dec 14, 2020 ~ LinkedIn bans paper 'The Global Mean Temperature Anomaly Record' written by two of the top climate scientists in the world, Richard Lindzen and John Christy. Fully factual and fully sourced but refutes part of the man made climate change orthodoxy. Falsely labels misinformation. [Climate Change, Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Censorship]
Dec 3, 2020 ~ Arthur Milikh, 'The Cost of Losing Free Speech' Necessary for political liberty. Necessary for a free mind. Necessary for enabling people to get practiced in critical thought and debate. Democrats want to throw that all away 'under the guise of regulating “hate speech.”' [Free Speech, Silencing]
Nov 18, 2020 ~ Tim Stone is banned from publishing on @rockpapershot where he has been a writer for 13 years for saysing the trans orthodoxy that male bodied trans women should compete in female sports is debatable. He says 'forbidding debate' silences and cancels people. They canceled him. [Cancel Culture, Free Speech, Silencing, Trans, Trans Athletes]
Nov 18, 2020 ~ Out.com, 'Norway Has Made Biphobic, Transphobic Speech Illegal' "The penal code states that those who are guilty of hate speech face a fine or up to a year in jail for private comments, and a maximum of three years in jail for public remarks." No free speech. [Free Speech, LGBT, Silencing, Trans]
Nov 18, 2020 ~ Matthew Yglesias, a co-founder of Vox becomes the next liberal to leave his own org. 'It’s a damaging trend in the media in particular because it is an industry that’s about ideas, and if you treat disagreement as a source of harm or personal safety, then it’s very challenging.' [Cancel Culture, Free Speech, Silencing, Trans]
Nov 17, 2020 ~ Tens of thousands of Trump supporters peacefully descend on Washington for the 'Million MAGA March' to support President Trump's election challenge. As usual, #BLM and Antifa violently attack them. Widespread attacks on women, children, elderly people. Liquids thrown on people. [Antifa, BLM, Free Speech, Silencing, Violent Left]
Nov 3, 2020 ~ Over 1000 Muslims in NYC protested against French President Emmanuel Macron’s 'vilification of Islam'. Macron stood up for free speech and denounced several killings in France recently including 2 public BEHEADINGS. But it is Macron who needs to 'say sorry to Muslims' they say. [Free Speech, Islam, Silencing, Terrorism]
Nov 2, 2020 ~ Santa Clara University profusely apologizes for a ‘Blue Lives Matter’ sign that was visible during a Zoom meeting by a campus Safety Official. The University made clear that Blue Lives do not matter. No lives matter except black lives, especially if they are shooting at police. [BLM, Cancel Culture, Fake Racism, Free Speech, Police, Silencing]
Nov 2, 2020 ~ George Leef, ''College Campuses Gave Us Cancel Culture' The era where people are ok with disagreement is 'fading fast'. The left now 'demonizes.' 'Silencing the faintest dissenter by any means necessary, even if it involves destroying their reputations, careers, and livelihoods.' [Cancel Culture, College, Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Silencing]
Nov 2, 2020 ~ New York Post, '11 arrested after cops clash with anti-Trump protesters in Manhattan'. 'Anti-Trump demonstrators had gathered at Madison Square Park to confront pro-Trump caravans crisscrossing the New York region.' As usual, Democrats try to shut down speech with violence. [Free Speech, Silencing, Violent Left]
Oct 30, 2020 ~ After 10 years Pamela Gellar's organization, The American Freedom Defense Initiative is allowed to run ads in Detroit offering to help people wanting to leave Islam. It can be very difficult to leave Islam as becoming non-Islamic is not permitted by Sharia under penalty of death. [Free Speech, Islam, Silencing]
Oct 30, 2020 ~ The @nypost account was suspended for 3 weeks for daring to write a story critical of @JoeBiden.  @tedcruz questioned Twitter CEO @jack, 'Who the hell elected you? And put you in charge of what the media are allowed to report, and what the American people are allowed to hear.' [Biden, Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]
Oct 30, 2020 ~ Departures of @bariweiss from the @NYT and @sullydish from the New Yorker, @ggreenwald from The Intercept shows that if you don't play along with every narrative (no matter how fake) and suppress stories that would hurt dems (no matter how real), you can't publish in today's env. [Fake News, Free Speech, Silencing]
Oct 29, 2020 ~ Glenn Greenwald resigns from The Intercept, the news outlet HE FOUNDED because they will not allow him to publish anything critical of Joe Biden. One side seeks to censor, silence and control every aspect of the narrative. Do you think that is because they have truth on their side? [Biden, Free Speech, Silencing]
Oct 27, 2020 ~ France warned its citizens in several Muslim-majority countries to be very careful. Anger is brewing over the free speech stance taken by Macron. Posters of Macron are being torn up and stomped on after he called the beheaded teacher 'a hero'. Protests outside French Embassies. [Free Speech, Islam, Silencing, Terrorism]
Oct 21, 2020 ~ Marc and Gina, Latinos for Trump start a GoFundMe for medical bills incurred by Marc. As soon as they got out of their car, the were mobbed by Antfia. Kicked, stomped, hit, pepper sprayed, knocked to ground. Marc's knee cap shattered. Needs surgery and will never be the same. [Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Silencing, Violent Left]
Oct 21, 2020 ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 'Why is free speech something you can be murdered for in Western Europe?' Gives examples of other people like film director Theo van Gogh killed for the slightest offense against Islam. van Gogh and Hirsi Ali made a movie exposing 'Islam’s treatment of women.' [Free Speech, Islam, Silencing, Terrorism]
Oct 19, 2020 ~ Michael Levitt @MLevitt_NP2013 is canceled as Keynote Speaker of the Computational Biology & Biodesign Conference for unapproved (but true) opinions on #Covid19. "too many calls by other speakers threatening to quit if you were there." "New Dark Age Cometh." Levitt says. [Cancel Culture, Coronavirus, Free Speech, Silencing]
Oct 19, 2020 ~ Dr. Scott Atlas @SWAtlasHoover was suspended from Twitter for tweeting unapproved information about masks. Atlas quoted the CDC and WHO but Twitter views their role to be the decider of what information and opinions are and are not permitted to be expressed. [Coronavirus, Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Censorship]
Oct 18, 2020 ~ Violent Democrats shut down Free Speech Rally in San Francisco. They threw punches at the black organizer of the event, Philip Anderson, and called him a the n-word. Knocked his teeth out. Attack people holding 'fascist symbols' like the American Flags, including seniors. [Free Speech, Racism, Silencing]
Oct 16, 2020 ~ Twitter under investigation for 'unprecedented election interference.' Congressional subpoenas, FCC looking at changing rules regulating platforms. Under pressure, Twitter reverses censorship policies. Tried to hide behind 'hacked content' issue but there was no hacked content. [Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]
Oct 16, 2020 ~ Will Chamberlain, 'Some slopes really are slippery. Twitter went from censoring Alex Jones to censoring the White House Press Secretary and the New York Post in a little over a year.' [Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]
Oct 16, 2020 ~ Dex Bahr, 'Big Tech goes full Pravda on New York Post's Hunter Biden sleaze scoop' Not only blocked anyone from sharing the story, suspended the @nypost account, suspended the White House Press Secretary account, block links to the House Judiciary government website. Insane. [Biden, Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]
Oct 16, 2020 ~ A teacher in a high school outside Paris was de-capitated for showing cartoons of Muhammed in a lesson on free speech.  Education Minister Blanquer. "the monstrosity of Islamist terrorism." Macron, He "was murdered today because he taught the freedom to believe or not believe." [Free Speech, Islam, Silencing, Terrorism]
Oct 15, 2020 ~ Marlo Safi, 'Elections Chairman Resigns After He And His Wife Are Accused Of Removing And Defacing Trump Signs' All over the country Trump signs are defaced and removed. Cars with Trump stickers are vandalized. #DontBecomeThem [Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Silencing]
Oct 15, 2020 ~ Twitter suspends Kayleigh McEnany for tweeting about the forbidden @nypost Biden article. Twitter and Facebook are engaging in massive election interference by acting as the arbiters of truth but doing so in an extremely biased way. Allow all kinds of #FakeNews if its anti-Trump. [Biden, Fake News, Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]
Oct 14, 2020 ~ FaceBook and Twitter censor the @nypost story 'Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad'. Block all references to the story. This tech censorship is blatant election interference. They enjoy privileges of a 'platform' but censor speech [Biden, Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship, Ukraine Hoax]
Oct 14, 2020 ~ 17 yo student Mackenzie Andrysiak at Episcopal High School may be expelled for opposing #BLM and posting mainstream conservative content on Instagram. She was cyberbullied by students, alumni and even a teacher, Mr. Walsh who called her a 'little shit' and clown. #CancelCulture [BLM, Cancel Culture, Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Silencing]
Oct 8, 2020 ~ A massive Trump sign on a hill near the 405 in California on private property. The authorities took it down saying it was a "visual distraction" to drivers. Straight up censorship of political speech. [California, Free Speech, Silencing]
Oct 5, 2020 ~ Tacoma middle school teacher Brendan Stanton kicked a student out of the chat and deleted the chat because he answered President Trump to the question, 'Who is the one person you admire and why?' Stanton went on at length as to why that kind of wrong answer will not be tolerated. [Education, Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Silencing, TDS]
Oct 5, 2020 ~ Rae’Lee Klein will sue Arizona State University for monetary damages for violating her First Amendment rights if they don't rehire her. She was fired from a journalist job for reporting on Jacob Blake's criminal record including his repeated abuse of women. Silenced for the truth [College, Crime, Free Speech, Silencing]
Sep 26, 2020 ~ The University of Wisconsin fired student writer Tripp Grebe for writing a column disagreeing with the 'Defund the Police' movement. They also did not publish the column. So-called 'higher education' is dead. There is no free speech or free thought allowed anymore. #CancelCulture [Cancel Culture, Free Speech, Police, Silencing]
Sep 18, 2020 ~ 13 year old Omar Farouq was sentenced in Nigeria to 10 years in prison for blasphemy against Islam for using 'foul language toward Allah in an argument with a friend.' Muslims in countries like this must live in fear of saying one errant word or stepping one toe off the line. [Free Speech, Islam, Silencing]
Sep 17, 2020 ~ FaceBook has censored many conservative ads recently. Brit Hume. 'Most political ads are arguably true and arguably false. Always have been. Now we have big tech censors shutting down speech on the basis of highly arguable fact checks.' They're not equipped to be truth arbiters. [Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias]
Sep 17, 2020 ~ Jonathan Zimmerman, 'If USC can punish Greg Patton, free speech on campus really is dead'. Most of 'academia' is cowering under their desks afraid to defend an obviously innocent man lest the #CancelCulture mob come for them. 'any of us could be purged... no matter' the truth. [Cancel Culture, College, Fake Racism, Free Speech, Silencing]
Aug 14, 2020 ~ David Silverman, 'I'm literally thinking of voting red right now. Me. David Silverman. I used to say "I'm so blue I make the sky look red". I haven't changed, the Left has.' Cites Democrat anti-police, anti free speech and anti due process positions. [Politics, Police, Free Speech, Due Process]
Aug 13, 2020 ~ Victory for free speech. YouTube has finally remonetized the channel of conservative commentator and comedian Steven Crowder after banning advertisements on his content over a year ago. [Free Speech, Tech Bias, Silencing]
Jul 30, 2020 ~ Lynne Lechter on Cancel Culture, 'control what America says... who is allowed to speak, and how America acts. Defy them at your own peril. If you don't, you will probably lose your job, your reputation, your Twitter account, your business, your safety, and even your city.' [Cancel Culture, Free Speech, Silencing]
Jul 29, 2020 ~ John Kass, 'What happened to an America where you could freely speak your mind?' The mob tried to 'cancel' him but he's winning. Falsely accuse him of Anti-Semitism for reporting the causes George Soros funds and how much. 'I will not bow to those who've wrongly defamed me.' [Cancel Culture, Silencing, Free Speech]
Jul 27, 2020 ~ Jeff Jacoby 'Fear of Speech is Replacing Freedom of Speech' Cato Survey, In the current cancel culture environment 62% of adults said 'given the current political climate, they are afraid to honestly express their views.' 77% of Republicans. Strong liberals only ones comfortable. [Cancel Culture, Silencing, Free Speech]

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