big tech

U.S. 07/28/21, 05:42

Twitter has suspended several accounts that have pushed for “audits” to find evidence of election frauds, including Arizona Audit. @ArizonaAudit, the official Twitter account of the Arizona election audit, was suspended on Tuesday, July 27. The Republican-led audit in Arizona is reviewing how Maricopa County, the state’s largest county, handled the ...

Tech 07/20/21, 19:46

As internet corporations like Facebook experiment with "brain-reading" technology, Klaus Schwab predicts brain microchips are fast becoming a reality. The Great Reset leader and World Economic Forum executive chairman, predicts Big Tech firms will increasingly pursue implanted microchips and other "transhumanist" technologies. A recently uncovered 2016 video interview with Swiss broadcaster RTS ...

Texas 07/11/21, 22:45

Donald Trump drew a standing ovation at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas. The audience applauded the former president for launching a class action lawsuit against Silicon Valley giants, prompting YouTube to censor a video of his speech on July 11. Despite negative mainstream media reports, Trump continues ...

U.S. 07/09/21, 16:41

On Friday, July 9, President Joe Biden will sign a new executive order aimed at combating anticompetitive behavior in Big Tech, besides a set of other fields such as healthcare, financial services, and agriculture. The extensive order seeks to “promote competition in the American economy” via a slew of reforms in ...

Politics 07/09/21, 16:19

Former President Donald Trump made clear on Thursday, July 8, that his class-action lawsuit is aimed to force Big Tech to stop censoring the American people, giving some bases for the case amid concerns that the lawsuit would be “dead on arrival.”  In an opinion article written and published in Wall ...

U.S. 07/01/21, 16:39

A federal judge blocked a law signed in May by Gov. Ron DeSantis that allowed people to sue social networks for censorship and fine them up to $250,000 each day that the accounts of campaigning politicians were suspended. On Wednesday, June 30, Northern District of Florida Judge Robert L. Hinkle, through ...

Washington 06/28/21, 23:20

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has revealed a new framework to help combat major technology companies that restrict freedom of speech and exhibit anti-competitive behavior. McCarthy is sick of "overwhelmingly liberal executives" at Big Tech companies limiting or preventing competition and silencing people for sharing conservative views. "Examples of conservative censorship ...

D.C. 06/25/21, 15:55

The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives approved 5 bills that limit the intervention of tech giants in the market of their field of action, which could lead them to divest their assets or split in two. The Judiciary Committee will also continue with the decisive End Platform Monopolies Act ...

D.C. 06/12/21, 01:33

A group of congressional lawmakers is aiming at tech giants with their antitrust concerns. They proposed five anti-trust bills which could force big tech to overhaul or even break up the sector's increasingly dominant business empires. The package bills introduced by a bipartisan group in Congress on Friday, June 11, primarily ...

U.S. 06/04/21, 20:24

On Friday, Facebook announced that it has banned former President Donald Trump from resuming his social media platform, including Instagram, for at least two years, maybe longer. The announcement came out in a blog post by Facebook's vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, on June 4, who declared that the ...

U.S. 05/06/21, 04:31

Facebook decided on Wednesday, May 5, to uphold its suspension of Donald Trump from the platform. In his response, the former president lashed out at Big Tech firms as "a total disgrace and an embarrassment" to the United States. Facebook's Oversight Board, a body chosen to weigh in on content moderation decisions ...

World 04/26/21, 05:27

India is struggling to cope with a massive increase in CPP Virus (coronavirus) cases that have crippled the country. Twitter has agreed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to censor tweets critical of its response to the pandemic, BuzzFeed reported. Modi and his government were facing mounting criticism for letting its ...

U.S. 04/22/21, 19:56

Seven House Republicans on Wednesday, April 21, signed a letter pledging not to accept any Big Tech donations. "With this pledge, we, as conservatives, are taking a firm stance against Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Twitter," Reps. Ken Buck ofColorado, who leads the group, told The Federalist. Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Greg ...

U.S. 04/14/21, 02:15

Top Republican leaders urgently hope to make the GOP appeal more to Trump supporters by targeting more hard-working Americans. GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to market the Republican Party towards those who think fondly of Donald Trump. McCarthy believes becoming a party for working-class voters could help the GOP attract ...

U.S. 04/03/21, 18:58

Google-owned YouTube is now setting videos that differ from the leftist political ideals it adheres to to "private" mode only. This limits the audience to only the user who uploaded the video and prevented them from being viewed by the general public. The monopolistic video platform is once again being singled ...

U.S. 03/25/21, 19:09

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) expressed his displeasure on Tuesday, March 23, with Twitter's decision to ban former President Donald Trump from the website. Many other international political figures, including Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and Andrés López Obrador, have slammed Twitter's move. Sanders said on "The Ezra Klein Show" that former President ...

Texas 03/16/21, 15:56

The state of Florida has taken a step forward on its legislation proposed by the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, which seeks to put a brake on the unrestricted censorship system implemented by big technologies. If approved, Big Tech will face costly consequences if it violates Floridians' privacy and freedom of ...

Politics 03/13/21, 09:38

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are asking Amazon to answer to allegations of “systemic viewpoint-based discrimination” against conservative viewpoints. The House Judiciary Committee formally required Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos provide any and all correspondence associated with instances of alleged censorship of conservative viewpoints. “Big Tech, including Amazon, is engaged in systematic ...

Texas 03/12/21, 06:45

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) intends to sign a bill prohibiting social media sites from censoring content posted by residents of the state. Abbott cautioned that social media platforms are violating the First Amendment after announcing that censorship would not be accepted in the Lone Star State. SB 12 was written ...

U.S. 02/25/21, 08:43

During the House Committee hearing on Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media, Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) warned that the Democrats' censorship of dissident media is "eerily similar" to that of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "Just two weeks ago, China's National Broadcasting Administration banned BBC World News from ...