More than 100 nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and government agencies around the world help police YouTube for extremist content, ranging from so-called hate speech to terrorist recruiting videos. All of them have confidentiality agreements barring Google, YouTube’s parent company, from revealing their participation to the public, a Google representative told The Daily Caller on Thursday.
First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plan to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News”…
Yesterday afternoon, the official Twitter account of Brazil’s Federal Police (its FBI equivalent) posted an extraordinary announcement. The bureaucratically nonchalant tone it used belied its significance. The tweet, at its core, purports to vest in the federal police and the federal government that oversees it the power to regulate, control, and outright censor political content […]
Harlem Shook: Google Is Using Its Immense Power to Censor Content That Doesn’t Fit Its Political Goals. Everyone in America Should Be Concerned About That…
The Daily Caller released a funny video Tuesday of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai defending the commission’s upcoming net neutrality rollback. Through Wednesday and Thursday, liberals and others who dislike Pai’s political position lost their minds. And by Friday morning, Google, one of the most powerful companies on the planet, had censored the video based on […]
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Calls Out Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Silicon Valley for Censorship and Internet Content Manipulation…
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, fired a direct shot across the bow of the technocrats who control social media platforms today. Chairman Pai righteously called out Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other platform control agents for being ideologically biased, and using their platforms to target their ideological opposition. Defending his plan to […]
Internet Giants Block Opposing Views, Threaten Open Web…
The Demise of Dissent: Why the Web Is Becoming Homogenized…
We’ve all heard that the problem with the web is fake news, i.e. unsubstantiated or erroneous content that’s designed to mislead or sow confusion. The problem isn’t just fake news–it’s the homogenization of the web, that is, the elimination or marginalization of independent voices of skepticism and dissent. There are four drivers of this homogenization…
Disney Backs Down After U.S. Media Boycott..
The Walt Disney company has ended its ban of the Los Angeles Times newspaper after a backlash from US media. Last week it emerged Disney had stopped inviting the newspaper to press screenings because it disagreed with an article published in September. High-profile organisations and individuals publicly criticised the company’s decision. The New York Times […]
Germany: Full Censorship Now Official…
A new German law introducing state censorship on social media platforms came into effect on October 1, 2017. The new law requires social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, to censor their users on behalf of the German state. Social media companies are obliged to delete or block any online “criminal offenses” such […]
Google’s Chief Search Engineer Legitimizes New Censorship Algorithm…
Between April and June, Google completed a major revision of its search engine that sharply curtails public access to Internet web sites that operate independently of the corporate and state-controlled media. Since the implementation of the changes, many left wing, anti-war and progressive web sites have experienced a sharp fall in traffic…
Update on YouTube’s New Assault On Free Speech! (VIDEO)…
YouTube continues to indirectly censor alternative voices under the guise of being ‘advertiser-friendly’, damaging the livelihoods of content creators who work tirelessly to combat the false narratives being put forward by the mainstream media. For a long time, YouTube’s platform allowed the full spectrum of views and perspectives to exist, but with the new changes, […]