Jan 11, 2025 ~ 'Pay Up, Mr. Mann' A court orders Michael Mann to pay $531K in court costs for his frivolous lawsuit against National Review for a blog post. Mann is a junk scientist who tries to sue his critics into silence often succeeding but not this time! [Anti-Science, Climate Change, Free Speech, Silencing]
Jan 9, 2025 ~ 'The Fall of the Censorship Wall at Facebook' Zuck admits the so called 'fact checkers' ended up being very politically biased censors who were often wrong. They switch to the more accurate Community Notes pioneered by X.
"The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point toward once again prioritizing speech. So, we’re going to get back to our roots by reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms."
We're "removing outdated restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that don’t align with mainstream discourse. What began as a movement for inclusivity has been weaponized to shut down opinions and exclude people with differing ideas. It’s gone too far. I want to ensure people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms."
Automatic filters will now only kick in for "illegal and severe violations" "to reduce mistakes in censorship." "The filters have made mistakes, removing content they shouldn’t. By dialing them back, we’ll dramatically reduce censorship and require higher confidence before taking down posts."
"For years, even the U.S. government pushed censorship, emboldening other nations. Now, we have an opportunity to restore free expression." [Free Speech, Silencing]
Dec 28, 2024 ~ 'Science, suppression, and DEI' "Mollie Hemingway rips the Biden administration for spending nearly $300 million to suppress speech." "We have federal agencies engaged in the suppression of speech and debate that the federal government disagrees with. That is in no way the job of the federal government to weigh in on what Americans are saying." "They put it under the guise of fighting misinformation or disinformation." "It's a horrific violation of the First Amendment." "Recent reports indicate that the Biden administration has essentially ordered the federal government to consider ‘indigenous knowledge’ when implementing various rules and regulations." [Biden, Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Silencing]
Dec 9, 2024 ~ "Billionaire Tech Investor Says Biden Admin Pressured Financial Institutions To ‘Debank’ Opponents" Marc Andreessen: "Basically, it [CFPB] terrorizes financial institutions. Prevent new competition, new startups that want to compete with the big banks … just by terrorizing anybody who tries to do anything new in financial services." For example, "Debanking. This is where a lot of the debanking comes from, is these agencies. So, debanking is when you as either a person or your company are literally kicked out of the banking system. … My partner, Ben’s father, has been debanked. … for having the wrong politics. For saying, 'unacceptable things' under current banking regulations."
"I haven’t heard of a single instance of anyone on the Left getting debanked. You get kicked out of your bank account. You get kicked out of the — you can’t do credit card transactions."
"We’ve had like 30 founders debanked in the last four years. This is one of the reasons why we ended up supporting Trump. It’s like we just can’t live in this world.”
"We can’t live in a world where somebody starts a company that’s a completely legal thing and then they literally like get sanctioned, right, and embargoed by the United States government through a completely unaccountable – by the way, no due process. None of this is written down. There’s no rules. There’s no court. There’s no decision process. There’s no appeal. Who do you appeal to, right? Like who do you go to to get your bank account back, right? And then there’s also the civil asset forfeiture side of it … that happens to people in a lot of places now who get arrested and all of a sudden the state takes their money. … There will be some investigation into safe deposit boxes, and the next thing you know, the feds have seized all the contents of the safe deposit boxes, and that stuff never gets returned.” [Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Regulations, Silencing]
Dec 1, 2024 ~ 'Nothing Cool About Democrats’ Woke Religion' "There is a more salient reason why Americans of all backgrounds now avoid the Democrat party’s army of celebrity influencers as if their opinions were as malodorous as spoiled milk sitting under an Arizona sun: there is absolutely nothing 'cool' about being a Democrat these days. If you want to get a stern lecture, you hang out with Democrats. If you want to have a good time with other happy people, you go to a Trump rally. If you scrutinize all jokes for their compliance with the tenets of 'political correctness,' then you vote Democrat. If you make jokes without worrying about “triggering” somebody, then Democrat operatives are most likely censoring whatever you say online. Nobody likes being censored. And as shocking as this must be to Deep State Democrats, censorship isn’t 'cool.'" [CRT DIE Wokeness, Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Politics, Silencing]
Oct 14, 2024 ~ The witch hunt against U. Penn Professor Amy Wax hit a new level. Wax will be suspended for the next academic year, her salary cut in half, and stripped of her title as the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law. Her sin was to criticize DIE and race based admissions in education. [Cancel Culture, CRT DIE Wokeness, Education, Silencing, Witch Hunt]
Sep 17, 2024 ~ Hillary Clinton says spreaders of 'propaganda' should be criminally charged, "There are Americans engaged this kind of propaganda. And whether they should be civilly or in some cases criminally charged, is something that would be a better deterrence." Recall she is the architect of the entire #RussiaHoax by spreading lies about Trump having ties to a Russian bank [Alfa] via a secret server and bought an entire fake dossier full of lies from an ex MI6 spy, the poison fruit of which occupied the #FakeNews for YEARS! She repeatedly lied about Trump being 'an illegitimate president.' The absolute nerve of her to criticize anyone of spreading 'propaganda' or 'misinformation.' If spreaders of 'propaganda' are ever criminally charged, she should be locked up for 1000 years! [Fake News, Free Speech, Hillary, Loathsome Left, Russia Hoax, Silencing]
Sep 7, 2024 ~ We know Democrats and the left despise free speech. Walz says 1st amendment does not cover 'hate speech.' Harris says "We will hold social media platforms accountable... If you profit off misinformation... if you don't police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable." Now Robert Reich calls for Musk to be arrested for allowing free speech. "Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn't stop disseminating lies and hate on X." Of course they always want to be the ones in charge of defining 'lies and hate.' [Free Speech, Harris, Loathsome Left, Silencing]
Sep 1, 2024 ~ "Zuckerberg: Biden-Harris ‘Repeatedly Pressured’ Us To Censor Free Speech" Zuck confirms that Biden administration pressured them into censoring Americans, contrary to the 1st Amendment but that they will not let it happen again. "In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree... I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again." [Coronavirus, Free Speech, Silencing]
Sep 1, 2024 ~ The Taliban announce women are not allowed to speak in public and also must be entirely covered in public at all times including their face. The Mullahs say, "We assure you that this Islamic law will be of great help in the promotion of virtue and the elimination of vice." [Islam, Silencing]
Aug 9, 2024 ~ 'Brits Are Being Arrested for Social Media Posts Now' Not an exaggeration. They have no free speech like the US. Gov. Tim Walz is jealous of their power and wants to do the same here. "There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation." But there is. [Free Speech, Silencing]
Jun 9, 2024 ~ 'How Neuropsychology Lost Its Mind' "confronted by far-left activists demanding to transform it based on unfounded accusations of systemic racism." 'Unfounded' AS ALWAYS. "The preamble states that clinical neuropsychology must 'strive to repair historical and contemporary bias' as well as 'structural and systemic oppression.' Practically, our profession’s members should be taught to 'demonstrate awareness of intersectionality' and 'advocate for marginalized and/or minoritized individuals, populations, and perspectives.' The conference even decided to authorize an apology to be written for the field’s alleged complicity in systemic racism." Disagreement was silenced with the usual censorship, accusations and fear based tactics: "The academy’s leadership responded by increasing its moderation of speech on its internal listserv. Soon to follow were insinuations that racism was the real reason for opposition to far-left ideology replacing science and standards. With suppression of online discourse and neuropsychologists self-censoring out of fear of being labeled a racist, the momentum against the guidelines has been effectively squashed." [CRT DIE Wokeness, Fake Racism, Health Care, Silencing]
May 14, 2024 ~ Warren Smith, the teacher who went viral for challenging a student who claimed JK Rowling was 'transphobic' to back it up as a lesson in critical thinking and the Socratic Method was fired. Smith: "I'm not going to say what is right or wrong or which way to think. The whole point is to learn how to think not what to think." But even that is no longer allowed. Its not just dissent of the orthodoxy that is prohibited - it is questioning the dogma itself. We are living under an authoritative theocracy where merely questioning the accepted scriptures is heresy and has severe consequences. Affirmation or silence is required on many issues. [Anti-Science, CRT DIE Wokeness, Education, Free Speech, Silencing, Trans]
Apr 6, 2024 ~ 'The Intellectual Wasteland of Our American College Campuses' Lieutenant Colonel Allen West continues to get shouted down and heckled at Universities by left wing children. They call him a 'racist' and 'fascist.' The usual garbage. They always refuse to debate. He need a police escort off campus once because of violent #BLM protesters. "It appears to me, and perhaps you as well, that our American college campuses are becoming intellectual wastelands. Sure, there are awesome students who are getting solid educations in specific fields of study, but for the most part, these campuses are nothing more than illogical, radical indoctrination centers." [BLM, College, CRT DIE Wokeness, Fake Racism, Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Silencing]
Apr 5, 2024 ~ Robert Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJr said Joe Biden "is the first candidate in history, the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech or censor his opponent." [Biden, Free Speech, Politics, Silencing]
Mar 21, 2024 ~ Kyle Rittenhouse tried to speak at the University of Memphis. 100s of #BLM protesters disrupted the event chanting "lock his ass up" and "fuck his ass up", causing Rittenhouse to bail early. The BLM protesters then chased and prevented event attendees from exiting the parking garage. "Police had to intervene to stop the BLM demonstrators from injuring attendees as the activists continued to intimidate people attempting to leave." BLM never changes. Their tactics all involve becoming a violent mob. [BLM, Cancel Culture, College, Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Silencing, Violent Left]
Mar 20, 2024 ~ 'Hospital’s DEI Training Implied Racial Bias Is Killing Black Mothers, Former Nurse Says' Brad McDowell disagreed with the ridiculous and racist messages given in the Meritus Medical Center's DIE training which claimed "that white nurses like me are killing black mothers. I was supposed to internalize this message and somehow apply it to the management of my team." He revealed that the "“course ignored the complex factors that contribute to higher black maternal mortality, including comorbidities, while defining any death from any cause after a year of giving birth as maternal mortality – a logical stretch." He also had to endure the usual DIE poison saying the US was built on "an ideology of White supremacy that justifies policies, practices and structures which result in social arrangements of subordination for groups of color through power and White privilege." For mildly pushing back on this toxic garbage, Dowell predictably was fired. [Cancel Culture, CRT DIE Wokeness, Fake Racism, Health Care, Silencing]
Mar 2, 2024 ~ Adam Rubenstein, 'I Was a Heretic at The New York Times. I did what I was hired to do, and I paid for it." “The fight over Cotton’s op-ed was never about safety, or the facts, or the editing, or even the argument,”
@RubensteinAdam
writes, “but control of the paper and who had it. In the end, all that mattered was that an example had been made.” Rubenstein related a story from his first week where he mentioned that he liked Chick-fil-A and "The HR representative leading the orientation chided me: 'We don’t do that here. They hate gay people.' People started snapping their fingers in acclamation." He knew that early that it was a cult. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/tom-cotton-new-york-times/677546/ [Cancel Culture, CRT DIE Wokeness, Fake Homophobia, Fake News, Free Speech, Silencing]
Feb 13, 2024 ~ Jo Nova, 'Mark Steyn ordered to pay $1 million to deter climate deniers from criticizing sacred scientists' "Michael Mann’s hockeystick graph was wildly different from hundreds of studies of other studies and instantly became the pet graph of the IPCC. It used the wrong proxy, the wrong tree, and the wrong type of averaging. Whole books were written on how bad it was. But when Mark Steyn called it fraudulent Mann sued." [Cancel Culture, Climate Change, Free Speech, Silencing]
Feb 11, 2024 ~ Glassbrook Elementary in Hayward, California signed a $250,000, three-year contract with a company called "Woke Kindergarden" to teach them how to "fight white supremacy" among other totally real things. Teacher Tiger Craven-Neeley questioned the cost given failing scores and asked what "disrupting whiteness" meant for a 3rd grade classroom. They were furious. Craven-Neeley was shouted at: "You are a danger to the school or the community." First he was banned from 'training' sessions. Then he was suspended. You can't disagree with the woke cult no matter how toxic they make the environment. #CancelCulture[Cancel Culture, CRT DIE Wokeness, Education, Fake Racism, Silencing]
Feb 11, 2024 ~ A DC court orders Mark Steyn to pay Michael Mann $1 Million in Mann's defamation case. Extremely chilling decision. The climate cult is a religion with high priests who can't be questioned. The litigious Michael Mann vows to go after National Review again after losing his first case against them. "Michael Mann Vows to Target NR Yet Again: 'They're Next'" Mann, who is an excellent researcher who has never faked his data and does not behave like a cartoon super villain, threatens to ruin the lives of anyone who suggests otherwise. [Anti-Science, Climate Change, Free Speech, Silencing]
Dec 17, 2023 ~ 'When the New York Times lost its way' James Bennet tells how he was fired from the @nytimes for allowing Sen. Cotton to write an opinion. Bennet explains how the Times went from mere #FakeNews to something far worse. "The Times’s problem has metastasised from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favour one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether." People are finally catching on to the #CancelCulture nature of the left. They despise free speech which they shut down by any means necessary. [Cancel Culture, CRT DIE Wokeness, Fake News, Free Speech, Loathsome Left, Silencing]
Dec 11, 2023 ~ David Strom, 'Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Unsung Hero of COVID-19' He "stood up to the mob made up of academics, journalists, and the pharmaceutical companies." "The government was claiming a stratospheric IFR of 3%-5%, while Bhattacharya’s study pegged it closer to 0.2%, with almost all the fatalities concentrated in easily identified groups–in particular the elderly.
Bhattacharya took from this the obvious: focus your efforts on protecting those at risk.
This IFR has since been confirmed, but at the time, Dr. Bhattacharya suffered slings and arrows for downplaying the virus’s danger. Telling the truth was not welcomed."
"Far from celebrating the scientific work Bhattacharya did to pin down COVID’s IFR, Stanford turned on him."
"The bottom line is that from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, politics and money drove policy, not science. In some ways, it was worse; some of Bhattacharya’s colleagues called on Stanford to censor him for not toeing the line." [Cancel Culture, Coronavirus, Silencing]
Nov 15, 2023 ~ Americans should really value the 1st Amendment. Recently, 2 men were arrested in Canada for a private conversation between them on an unapproved topic. Now a British woman is hauled in under the 'Malicious Communications Act' tweets opposing modern gender ideology scientifically. [Cancel Culture, Free Speech, Silencing, Trans]
Nov 5, 2023 ~ State University of New York at Albany sociology professor Renee Overdyke was arrested for violently disrupting a pro-life demonstration. She unplugged a projector and prevented the presentation and then she resisted arrest. This comes 2 weeks after a conservative speaker was shouted down and prevented to speak at the same university. The left despises free speech. They cannot allow any dissenting opinions to be heard. Its no mystery why. [Abortion, College, Free Speech, Silencing, Violent Left]
Oct 31, 2023 ~ Jen Hodgson, 'Two Calgary men charged for conversation on transit en route to 1 Million March 4 Children' "The two individuals report 'having had a private conversation on the C-train with a like-minded passenger.' However, it appears the conversation was overheard and reported. The men were detained when they got off the train. One was handcuffed while police confirmed his identity and they were both issued a ticket and summons to court." What in the actual fuck is the matter with any country not the US? Supposedly free countries are arresting people for having a conversation!! [Free Speech, Silencing]
Oct 25, 2023 ~ Leftists of all variety have been cheering the Islamic terrorists killing Jews in the most barbaric ways? Many have known for a long time that the left is evil. Always on the side of terrorists, criminals, censors and dictators. Always against peaceful, law abiding people. Against freedom of speech and politics. Is there anyone who can't see it now? [Crime, Islam, Israel, Loathsome Left, Silencing, Terrorism]
Oct 22, 2023 ~ Bill Maher explains why many colleges like Harvard have become worthless cesspools of left wing garbage.
"As an Ivy League graduate who knows the value of a liberal education, I have one piece of advice for the youth of America. Don’t go to college. And if you absolutely have to go, don’t go to an elite college, because as recent events have shown, it just makes you stupid. There are few if any positives to come out of what happened in Israel, but one of them opening America's eyes to how higher education has become indoctrination, among them the simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed. In the case of Israel, oppressors being babies and bubas. The same students who will tell you that words are violence and silence is violence were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worthy of the Vikings. They knew where to point the fingers; at the murdered, and then it was off to ethics class."
"Siding with terrorists," "34 student groups at Harvard signed a letter saying 'the apartheid regime is the only one to blame,' proving they don't know what constitutes apartheid. They don't know much of anything, actually. But it doesn’t deter them from having an opinion. They’ve convinced themselves Israel is the most repressive regime in history because they have no knowledge of history or even a desire to know it. And actual history doesn’t come up in their intersectionality of politics and gender queer identities class.”
“If ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan wet market. The reason why despising Israel became pretty much a requirement of the American Left is colleges, elite colleges, the mouth of the river from which this and all manner of radical Left illiberal, yes, illiberal nonsense flows. Supporting all-black, that is segregated dorms, segregated graduation ceremonies, and orientation programs, which occur on hundreds of campuses is illiberal. So is the racism against Asian applicants and chasing speakers off of campus. When the First Amendment watchdog group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression began ranking colleges based on their commitment to free speech and inquiry, Harvard came in dead last. There is only one set of acceptable opinions on campus, and it’s policed hard." "Elite schools should no longer be called elite. Just say expensive." Oddly, after excoriating Democrats and the left, Maher ends up attacking Republicans, perhaps annoyed that they figured all of this out long before he did? [Affirmative Action, College, CRT DIE Wokeness, Free Speech, Israel, Loathsome Left, Political Correctness, Racism, Silencing, Violent Left]
Oct 13, 2023 ~ EU pinhead Thierry Breton accuses @elonmusk of allowing X to spread 'disinformation.' Threatens big fines if X does not comply to his censorship. Musk tells Thierry to shove it! BTW if you asked AI to generate the perfect name for an EU pinhead, it would say 'Thierry Breton.' [Free Speech, Regulations, Silencing, Tech Censorship]
Oct 9, 2023 ~ In Switzerland, Alain Soral was sentenced to 60 days in jail for calling another journalist a "fat lesbian" and was fined thousands of Swiss francs. Be thankful for the 1st amendment free speech rights we have in the US. Democrats would love to eliminate the 1st amendment. [Free Speech, Silencing]
Oct 9, 2023 ~ Katie Pavlich, 'New Month, Same Old Censorship From Big Tech' "Stories addressing the government’s response to COVID, the border invasion, climate change, and more have all been demonetized in an effort to pressure us into no longer discussing these important topics. That's what Big Tech does. They demonetize stories on topics they don't want the truth told about in order to strong-arm us into not writing about them at all. It's the most egregious type of corporate censorship and an attempt to deprive us of the revenue we need to survive and keep telling the truth." [Free Speech, Silencing, Tech Bias, Tech Censorship]