Hungary Will Legislate Against Tech Censorship: ‘We Must Fight for Our Digital Freedom!’
The Hungarian government has confirmed that it will legislate against Big Tech censorship online, declaring that “we must fight for our digital freedom!”
The Hungarian government has confirmed that it will legislate against Big Tech censorship online, declaring that “we must fight for our digital freedom!”
Poland is legislating to protect freedom of speech on online platforms, government minister Sebastian Kaleta told Breitbart News.
Twitter has permanently banned Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow and one of former President Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters in the business world.
Social media giant Twitter has announced a new feature called “Birdwatch” which aims to encourage users to police and flag each other’s tweets if they believe they spread misinformation. The company claims it wants to “broaden the range of voices” fighting against misinformation, but the feature has the potential to devolve into flagging wars between different factions of users.
Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister has called on the U.S. to protect “every citizen” from Big Tech censorship on social media, as his own country prepares new laws enforcing free speech standards online.
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Twitter repeatedly told the victim of child sexual abuse that a video of his ordeal circulating on the platform didn’t violate the platform’s policies, according to a lawsuit filed on the victim’s behalf by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
The investigative journalism group Project Veritas recently published insider footage of Twitter’s Legal, Policy, and Trust Lead discussing plans for Twitter’s expansion of moderation enforcement on a global scale. Progressive Twitter exec Vijaya Gadde described applying the company’s “global approach” to America’s political leaders, reaffirming the company’s believe that President Donald Trump’s posts were “inciting violence and having real-world harm.”
In a recent article, the New York Times provides an insight into Twitter’s decision to ban President Donald Trump from its platform permanently. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, on vacation in French Polynesia, approved the decision under intense pressure from the company’s extreme leftist executives. Employees reportedly compared the platform allowing Trump to tweet to IBM collaborating with the Nazis.
Poland’s government has unveiled a draft law to combat censorship on social media, creating a Freedom of Speech Board with the power to order tech firms to restore online accounts and posts deleted for lawful speech on pain of substantial fines.
Ben Stiller said Donald Trump’s “divisive rhetoric” has “real-life consequences,” framing the president’s online commentary as incitement.
In a recent article, NBC News provides an insight into the moments leading up to the decision by Facebook and Twitter to blacklist President Donald Trump. One Facebook executive betrayed the depth of progressive groupthink amongst the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe when they reported said: “We don’t have a policy for what to do when a sitting president starts a coup.”
Project Veritas has released a video featuring Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talking about how social media censorship “is not going away any time soon.” Dorsey says in the video that the company should be considering a “Much broader approach” to how it manages conversations on its platform.
In a recent thread on his own platform, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discussed the recent suspension of President Donald Trump, stating that while he believes it was the right decision it may have set a dangerous precedent.
Twitter claims that it has made an “error” in blacklisting the Students for Trump Twitter account on Wednesday. The suspension of the Pro-Trump student group has been reversed.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called out the Big Tech Masters of the Universe and their “attempts at bringing down Parler,” sharing his concerns about “tech CEOs” having the ability to “run roughshod over democratically elected officials.”
Alan Dershowitz described YouTube and Facebook as “partisan political tools” which should not be viewed as neutral platforms.
Facebook on Monday blocked former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) from managing his own Facebook page.
Twitter banned President Donald Trump’s official campaign account and his campaign’s digital director Gary Coby on Saturday.
Left-wing Hollywood celebrities are expressing their collective love of Big Brother after Twitter announced that it has permanently banned President Donald Trump.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday to suspend President Trump’s account “in the interest of our national security and public safety.”
Social media giant Twitter has restored access to President Trump’s account after issuing a 12-hour suspension to the President following his comments about yesterday’s protests on Capitol Hill. Although the suspension was for 12 hours, Trump did not tweet for almost a full 24 hours from the time his posts and video were censored by the platform.
Twitter censored a video from President Donald Trump calling on protesters at the U.S. capitol building to peacefully disperse and go home. Twitter users were prevented from liking, retweeting, or replying to the tweet because of a “risk of violence.”
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently laid out his opposition to proposed cryptocurrency regulation, stating that it would create “perverse incentives for cryptocurrency customers to avoid regulated entities for cryptocurrency transactions.”
A Delaware computer repairman has filed a $500 million lawsuit against Twitter for alleged defamation in response to the repairman’s involvement with Hunter Biden’s laptop, which became the subject of bombshell stories published by the New York Post ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer detailed the painful confrontations he had with Sen. Dianne Feinstein about taking away her leadership position on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Tech news site Protocol published a profile recently of Christine Su, the senior product manager for conversational safety at Twitter. Su’s approach to the platform’s censorship will focus on “transformative and procedural justice.”
Twitter is blocking users from sharing links to lawyer Sidney Powell’s lawsuit relating to widespread voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) submitted questions on Tuesday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey regarding their “coordinated censorship” and tracking of their users across the Internet.
Twitter reportedly plans to reopen its verification process in 2021 along with new guidelines for users seeking to be verified. Along with various benefits for the “blue check” user themselves, verification assures the general public that the account belongs to the person or brand it claims to represent. Twitter has refused to verify prominent conservatives such as James O’Keefe and Sidney Powell, leading to hoax accounts confusing the public.
Twitter is taking its campaign of labeling tweets that the site believes contain “misinformation” about the 2020 election to the next level. Now the platform plans to send users warnings if they attempt to “like” labeled tweets.
Lawyer Sidney Powell was temporarily suspended from Twitter, with some alleging that she was suspended for linking to a news article relating to election interference. Although she has not posted since the suspension, she has retweeted others on Monday, indicating her account was likely locked for 12 hours by the social media Masters of the Universe.
Hollywood director Paul Feig is urging Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to suspend President Donald Trump from the social media platform, claiming that the president is “trying to tear this country apart.” But the Joe Biden-supporting filmmaker failed to cite any examples of the president violating Twitter rules that could lead to a suspension.
Twitter will transfer control of @POTUS, the official account of the President of the United States, to Joe Biden on January 20, regardless of whether President Donald Trump concedes the election.
Twitter has locked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton out of his account after he tweeted the results of a Danish study indicating that masks are ineffective at preventing the spread of coronavirus.
Twitter has placed warning labels on 23 posts and retweets from President Donald Trump this week, each calling his posts “disputed,” continuing its repeated pattern of censorship since election day.
Rush Limbaugh defended Breitbart News from censorship by Big Tech and the Democrats on Wednesday, noting that Andrew Breitbart had expanded freedom of the press in America.
After a wide-ranging set of questions that included Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency token and censorship in Vietnam, Marsha Blackburn finished her questioning with a fiery speech against the Big Tech Masters of the Universe and their power.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News that Big Tech’s political censorship amounted to election interference, offering her comments on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
In a hearing today before the Committee on the Judiciary, the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter faced harsh criticism over their censorship of the New York Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden stories.