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Google has personal information on political opponents that can be weaponized, warned Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The United Kingdom’s culture secretary has threatened to impose fines on social media companies if they fail to police so-called hate speech. The move comes in stark contrast to Poland, which has vowed to fine tech companies which embark on censorship campaigns.

The White House reportedly feels “blessed” by Twitter’s move to permanently ban former President Trump’s personal account from the platform, Politico reported on Thursday.

Britain’s Socialist Workers Party (SWP) was censored from Facebook on Friday, as Silicon Valley tech giants turn their censorship apparatus upon the radical left in the U.S. and the UK.

Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is once again using his celebrity platform to try and silence conservatives, telling Facebook and YouTube that they must not lift their suspensions of President Donald Trump because he represents a threat to democracy. His

Britain’s leading left-wing newspaper The Guardian has published a list of Conservative MPs and prominent personalities who joined the social media platform Parler, which the newspaper claims is favoured by the “far-right” and “Trump supporters”.

A high school principal has been relieved of his duties — at least temporarily — after he criticized social media censorship to students this week.

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.

“Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen is demanding that Google kick President Donald Trump off of YouTube, claiming that banning the president on all social media is necessary to save democracy.

Merkel has criticised the banning of the Twitter account of U.S. President Trump, stating that she has concerns over freedom of expression. 

Greg Gutfeld joined Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Lou Dobbs in leaving Twitter on Saturday. Gutfeld made his exit by announcing his “last tweet,” in which he slammed the handful of big tech companies that have “joined hands” in purging conservatives and removing their competition.

On Friday, the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the Firefox web browser, shared a list of additional actions intended to alter the “dangerous dynamics” of the internet, claiming that “the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms” is not enough.

“Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen — who is Hollywood’s most outspoken pro-censorship activist — has declared that Twitter and Facebook’s recent decisions to ban President Donald Trump for their platforms are “the most important moment in the history of social media.”

A newly launched Hungarian social media network claims it wants to create a similar platform to Facebook, but without censorship.

The computer technician whose services Hunter Biden procured for laptop repair and data recovery, said Twitter destroyed his business by calling him a hacker.

The New York Times has been accused of spreading false information about the United Kingdom’s coronavirus vaccine guidelines, after publishing a reportedly misleading article and post on social media.

YouTube has deleted talkRADIO from the platform, with some speculating this follows the broadcaster taking a critical stance on lockdowns.

If former Vice President Joe Biden becomes president, Big Tech’s left-wing political censorship will worsen, forecasted Dave Rubin.

Alan Dershowitz dared YouTube to censor him for interviewing Breitbart’s Joel Pollak, author of “Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.”

Sharyl Attkisson said big tech companies and news media create an “artificial reality” of political narratives through censorship.

Actress Rose McGowan, who has publicly denounced Joe Biden as a fraud and a liar, is accusing Facebook and Twitter of trying to suppress her freedom of speech, adding that she suspects the censorship is the work of the Democratic party.

Brexit Party leader and longtime Trump ally, Nigel Farage said that attempts by Twitter and Facebook to suppress the Hunter Biden email revelations will backfire and ultimately help President Trump secure victory.

Former British deputy prime minister of turned Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications at Facebook, Sir Nick Clegg, was allegedly involved in the tech giant’s decision to censor the New York Post article exposing details about the Biden family.

Swedish government investigator Carl Heath has recommended the government crack down even harder on so-called hate speech online, as well as disinformation and propaganda.

The free-speech social media platform Parler is encouraging Jewish people to dump Twitter after the Silicon Valley giant shut down some accounts in July for posting the Star of David.

On Monday, Twitter placed a “sensitive content” warning on a religious-based motivational video posted by pro-baseball player Tim Tebow.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged tighter government control over social media on Wednesday after insults were allegedly directed at his daughter and son-in-law when they announced the birth of their child on Twitter this week, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported.

Social media platform Parler added about a million new users over the past two weeks said John Matze, CEO of Parler, attributing the “mass migration” to “frustration with censorship” on Twitter. He offered his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Twitter’s censorship of prominent conservatives continued on Tuesday with the permanent suspension of the influential meme maker known as “Carpe Donktum,” whose humorous political memes and videos skewering the political left and mainstream media have made him a favorite of President Donald Trump.

Rapper and actor Ice Cube is claiming censorship over Twitter’s decision to lock him out of his account, saying that his brutal style of truth telling is the real reason the social media giant is punishing him.

Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) highlighted Facebook and Twitter’s politically-driven and arbitrary censorship of information, contrasting the platforms’ facilitation of operations executed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter while censoring disagreement with public health authorities’ positions.

Trump’s rhetoric is combative and over-the-top. Yet his actions, as usual, not only obey the First Amendment, but also reinforce it. Biden would do the opposite.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr said at CPAC on Saturday that Americans should be empowered to turn off social media companies’ “bias filters.”

A widely viewed TikTok video that has drawn horrified responses shows a girl laughing and apparently having fun as she reveals her pregnancy and heads to Planned Parenthood for what appears to be her second abortion attempt.

Social media company Parler has slammed Twitter’s decision to suspend Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, saying that the move amounts to “political censorship” and “election interference.”