by Brian Freeman at Newsmax
Big Tech is discriminating against conservatives and independent thinkers by censoring them online, which has a cumulative effect because it also prevents followers from hearing about new ideas and viewpoints, according to a report released Wednesday by the Media Research Center (MRC) Free Speech America.
MRC calls this “secondhand censorship,” which it defines as the number of times that users on social media have information kept from them.
According to the study, users were affected by secondhand censorship more than 140 million times in the first quarter of this year. That was the result of direct censorship of individuals and organizations at least 4,000 times.
The study cited some of the worst examples of secondhand censorship, such as when President Donald Trump was censored and more than 90 million followers could no longer interact with his posts.
Another example was the New York Post’s report on…
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