Freedom of speech
Social Media Bias Just Got Even More Orwellian
A study by the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, titled “False Allegation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Censors Conservatives,” is downright chilling—and it tells you everything you need to know about the dishonesty of those who purport to be arbiters of truth in modern American society.
‘Demonic’ war: Gab founder urges deletion of Big Tech apps, build Christian economy
Gab.com is an online community where freedom of speech is paramount, and it explains it is not the website’s job to fact check “political opinions, news, history, math problems, memes, or anything else.”
With those goals, it’s not surprising that it’s been banned from app stores and deplatformed by a long list of Silicon Valley interests.
Liberals Appear To Be Targeting ‘Dissent’ With New Social Media Laws
As expected, the government will claim they are ‘protecting Canadians,’ while actually seeking to protect government from the criticism that is necessary in a free society.
“Republicans Need To Suffer”: Drake Professor Triggers Free Speech Debate With Hateful Tweets Against Men and Conservatives
There is a free speech debate at Drake University over hateful and vulgar tweets from Associate English Professor Beth Younger, who called for Republicans “to suffer.” We have seen increasing vulgar attacks from academics, including such high-profile figures as Laurence Tribe in the last few years. Notably, Twitter did not suspend Younger’s account for calling for harm to all Republicans. I do not believe that she should be barred from social media or fired from Drake as a matter of free speech. Even with professors who have justified the murder of conservatives or killing police are protected in such hateful expressions. The solution to such hate speech is more (and better) speech. I would rather we denounce such speech than censor it.
h/t Marvin
Journalists Mobilize Against Free Speech
A new generation of media crusaders clamor for government control over what you see, hear, and read—and for banning their competition
American journalism once thought of itself as being inherently and institutionally pro free speech. Visitors to the Newseum, the media industry’s temple of self-glorification on Constitution Avenue in Washington, were once greeted with the First Amendment inscribed across 74 vertical feet of lofty marble. The Newseum has been closed since late 2019, its operators having discovered the hard way that the public doesn’t share the media’s heroic level of regard for itself.
“E-Tribunal” – That’s What They’re Calling Star Chambers Nowadays
Report calls for powerful new federal body to regulate social media
A federally funded panel is recommending the creation of a powerful new government regulator to oversee social media companies such as Facebook and Google and to require them to have strong content-moderation practices and to comply with a new legal duty to act responsibly.
The report by the Public Policy Forum (PPF)’s Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression, to be released on Wednesday, also calls for the creation of a federal “e-tribunal” to hear complaints about specific social media posts.
The federal Liberal government plans to introduce legislation early this year to regulate social media companies, with a focus on online hate and harassment. The report’s recommendations are aimed at influencing that legislation.
Fuck you Nazi.
The Bitter Truth About Free Speech
Repairing free speech is the No. 1 priority in this nation right now.
Here’s a sad truth we now have to live with.
The America we know, the America we grew up with, the America we had until a year or less ago, is gone. The Constitution of the United States of America, the “greatest document ever struck off by the brain and purpose of man at any one time,” as Gladstone called it, lies in ruins.
Among many other catastrophes, we have lost freedom of speech. This just happened within the last few weeks.
Oh boy.
This is Twitter’s attempt to outsource defamation liability for its left-wing, partisan content warnings to a hand-picked pool of users. It’s the ideological offspring of the heckler’s veto and Mao’s communist social credit system. https://t.co/Ma8eWFZOgT
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 25, 2021
Canadians want online hate and racism curbed, even at cost of freedom of speech, poll finds
Most Canadians want the government and social media companies to do more to curtail hateful and racist behaviour online even if it diminishes freedom of speech and privacy, according to a national opinion survey.
The findings add to fraught debates over free speech and censorship, the power of Big Tech, the boundary between opinions and abuse, and how best to maintain free speech in an omnipresent online world.
One poll commissioned by a biased organization that sucks on the government teat. I refuse to believe Canadians are this stupid.
This reeks of government propaganda.
Why Burn Books When You Can Ban Them?
Hundreds of publishing officials, professors, and academics have signed a petition to blacklist Trump administration alumni from receiving book deals. It is the latest step in a rapidly expanding anti-free speech movement in the United States. In the wake of the Capitol riot, Democratic members and others are calling for a crackdown on free speech and punitive actions for those viewed as complicit with Trump. What is striking is how censorship, blacklists, and speech controls are being repackaged as righteous and virtuous. Indeed, the failure to sign such anti-free speech screeds is a precarious choice for many. It is as easy as calling for tolerance through intolerance. After all, why burn books if you can just effectively ban them?
Trudeau’s Liberals Are Siding With Big Tech on Censorship
Federal Heritage Minister, Steven Guilbeault, has been vocal on social media recently regarding his opinion on Big Tech’s censorship of prominent figures and free speech platforms.
In A Free Country, Politicians Shouldn’t Be ‘Protecting’ Us From Online Opinions
Adults should be able to decide what they agree and disagree with, without politicians inserting themselves into the process.
Danielle Smith: I’m leaving Twitter and radio because I’ve had enough of the mob
When I entered the media it was after a devastating personal failure in politics and I feared no one would ever hire me again after such a public routing.
The year was 1999 and I’d just been fired from the Calgary Board of Education when then Alberta Education Minister Lyle Oberg determined that our group of trustees had become so dysfunctional it could no longer work constructively together. So he disbanded the board.
California officer loses job over racist post on Parler
Madalone In November had said that the post in question, which was reported to the department and made on the social media platform Parler, was “F— Black Lives Matter.”