The banning of multiple political commentators from Facebook and Instagram, including conservatives Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer, is an outrage against the ideals of an open Internet on its own. But beyond the bans on individuals, Facebook has deployed an even more terrifying tool of censorship — link-banning.
Facebook previously suspended the editor-in-chief of Politicalite for linking to a Yellow Vest activist’s article.
Popular Twitter user and blogger “Kantbot” was suspended from Medium, a major blogging platform, after writing an article arguing that poor public school “mental health programs” are more culpable for school shootings than the availability of guns.
Motherboard recently reported that a Twitter employee working on machine learning has claimed that using algorithms and A.I. to detect white supremacy on the platform would also target Republican politicians.
PragerU announced on Wednesday that YouTube has placed another of its videos in “restricted mode,” meaning that not everyone who visits the video-sharing website will be able to watch it. The restricted video is of Candace Owens’ powerful testimony before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
Instagram removed a cartoon posted by Babylon Bee founder Adam Ford for “hate speech,” Wednesday.
Twitter’s Director of Public Policy and Philanthropy froze during a hearing, Wednesday, after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled him on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s previous declaration that the social network is not a neutral platform.
Watchdogs groups have accused Apple of censoring music that mentions the Tiananmen Square Massacre and democracy in China.
Google manually manipulates search results in an effort to exclude conservative websites, such as the American Spectator, the Conservative Tribune, and the Gateway Pundit, according to documents leaked to the Daily Caller.
YouTube shut down the ability for users to post comments on the livestream video of Tuesday’s congressional hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism, after users began flooding the live comment section with remarks it considers “hate speech.”
University of Notre Dame President John I. Jenkins has rejected calls to install an Internet filter on campus that would block pornography.
Facebook and Instagram have blacklisted political commentator Faith Goldy from their platforms, just one week after Goldy was also banned from Airbnb for her political views.
The U.K. government has revealed a set of planned “extreme” measures to sanction tech companies which fail to remove “harmful content” online, including terrorist content, self-harm, bullying, and child pornography, but also “extreme pornography,” “trolling,” and “disinformation.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed in an interview this week that political discussion on social media, including the immigration debate, should be regulated in an effort to crack down on foreign influence.
YouTube has placed a number of major restrictions on Tommy Robinson’s account, making his videos invisible from searches, removing his ability to make live videos, stripping his content of likes and comments, and displaying a warning before each video.
Google is reportedly carrying out a secret “performance review” of its censored Chinese search app, codenamed Project Dragonfly, despite the company claiming in December that is has no plans to launch the project. Project Dragonfly faced widespread condemnation including from members of Congress, human rights organizations, and hundreds of Google employees themselves.
Social media giant Facebook has now officially banned white nationalism and white separatism from its platform.
Australia could jail Big Tech company executives who fail to remove extremist content from their platforms, according to a report.
Fundraising site GoFundMe has joined Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, YouTube, and Pinterest in banning anti-vaccination content.
New Zealand has banned possession of the Christchurch mosque shooter’s manifesto, and ordered citizens to destroy any copies they may possess. The Country’s “Chief Censor” says the manifesto “promotes murder and terrorism.”
New Zealand ISPs are banning websites which host the Christchurch mosque shooter’s video of the massacre. In New Zealand, sharing the video is a criminal offense, and one 22-year-old reportedly faces at least ten years in prison for sharing it online. The Internet companies are not taking action against Facebook, where the video was originally livestreamed.
Twitter admitted on Monday to “removing” a post from Federalist co-founder Sean Davis, but the journalist claims the platform actually shadowbanned, or hidden from other users.
Donald Trump Jr. warned in an article for the Hill, Sunday, that Big Tech companies could soon construct a communist-style social credit system if “left unchecked.”
Eventbrite banned the conservative organization, ACT for America, on Thursday over supposed violations of the platform’s “Community Guidelines.” The ban arrives just one week after a former Nancy Pelosi intern wrote a hit piece on the organization, relying on information provided by the discredited SPLC.
A new browser extension from Google company Jigsaw, formerly known as Google Ideas, allows users to hide “toxic” comments online.
Facebook temporarily blocked users from posting articles from finance and politics blog Zero Hedge this week, calling the blacklisting a “mistake.”
Twitter suspended Daily Caller reporter Chuck Ross for twelve hours, Sunday, after he posted “Learn to code.”
Google’s video platform YouTube is set to roll out a “fact-check” feature on video searches that are “prone to misinformation,” warning users that certain topics are “FAKE.”
Donald Trump Jr. appeared on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight, Tuesday, to warn that if America doesn’t fight back against Big Tech censorship now, it’ll never have the chance again.
Two lead Facebook engineers proposed the creation of a “Troll Twilight Zone” which would secretly glitch out the accounts of alleged “trolls” on the social network, to “confuse and demoralize them” around key election dates.
A former Facebook employee, who shared her discovery of a “deboosting” code found on the pages of popular conservatives, claimed she didn’t see the same censorship against “independent figures on the left,” like the Young Turks.
Free speech social network Gab has launched a new comments platform, Dissenter, which allows users to make comments on every single website on the Internet without fear of censorship or banning.
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman admitted during an interview with the Wall Street Journal that PayPal works with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) when it considers blacklisting conservatives.
Google reportedly flagged 100 pages of archaeological site Ancient Origins as “inappropriate content” due to “images of mummified bodies, nude statues, and ancient battle scenes.”
Meghan Murphy, the founder of the radical feminist blog Feminist Current, has filed a lawsuit against Twitter after the social network blacklisted her in November for stating that men are not women.
YouTube is considering removing or limiting its users’ ability to use the “dislike” button to indicate their distaste for content after one of the platform’s own official videos — the infamous “Rewind 2018” annual recap — became the most disliked YouTube video in history.
Conservative commentator and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes is reportedly suing the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for “defaming” him, publishing “false, damaging and defamatory statements,” and attempting to “deplatform” him.
Streaming device manufacturer and platform Roku caved in to demands from left-wing activists to blacklist Infowars, Tuesday.
Chinese Internet censors are reportedly learning the true history of China, including human rights abuses and historical figures they were previously unaware of, as part of job training to effectively censor the Chinese Internet.
China now requires tech companies to keep “detailed records” of user activity, according to a report.
