Biden Gives “Five Eyes” What It Always Wanted: Access To Everyone’s Social Media
By MassPrivateI For years, Americans have largely ignored corporate social media surveillance. But that all of that is about to change, thanks to President Biden….
Free Speech
Big Tech Forms “White Supremacist” Counterterror Database; PayPal Works With ADL To “Fight Extremism And Hate”
By Tyler Durden Big tech – which overwhelmingly employs leftists who’ve casually called anyone right of Mao a ‘Nazi’ over the past five years –…
India’s Draconian Rules for Internet Platforms Threaten User Privacy and Undermine Encryption
By Katitza Rodriguez and Kurt Opsahl The Indian government’s new Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code (“2021 Rules”) pose huge problems for free expression…
Can the Biden Administration Censor the Internet Through Private Companies?
By Ethan Yang Misinformation has become one of the most abused words in contemporary dialogue. Any reasonable person should immediately raise red flags when someone…
Right or Left, You Should Be Worried About Big Tech Censorship
By Cory Doctorow Conservatives are being censored Claiming that “right-wing voices are being censored,” Republican-led legislatures in Florida and Texas have introduced legislation to “end…
What Cops Understand About Copyright Filters: They Prevent Legal Speech
By Katherine Trendacosta “You can record all you want. I just know it can’t be posted to YouTube,” said an Alameda County sheriff’s deputy to…
Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 “National Security Threat To The United States Of America”
By Michael Snyder When one major political party starts labeling the other major political party as a “national security threat”, that should set off major…
UK’s Draft Online Safety Bill Raises Serious Concerns Around Freedom of Expression
By Christoph Schmon On May 12, the UK government published a draft of its Online Safety Bill, which attempts to tackle illegal and otherwise harmful…
Gov’t to “Engage” SMS Carriers to “Dispel Vaccine Misinformation” by Vetting Your Text Messages
By Matt Agorist As TFTP reported last week, President Joe Biden took to the podium to declare that Americans need to get the “free” vaccine….
Canada’s Orwellian “pre-crime” Hate Speech Bill – And Other Weekly News from the Global Dystopia
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world…
Orwellian: Canada Moves to Ban “Hate Speech” Online, Punishable by a $40,000 Fine
By Tyler O’Neil Last week, Canada’s Liberal Party headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed new legislation to criminalize “hate speech” online, punishable by a…
In Landmark Free Speech Decision, SCOTUS Rules That Schools May Not Police Social Media Posts Made Off Campus
By Angela Morabito In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the Mahanoy Area School District violated a student’s First Amendment rights by punishing…
22 Rights Groups Tell PayPal and Venmo to Shape Up Policies on Account Closures
San Francisco – Nearly two dozen rights groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), have joined together to tell PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo to…
MSM Admits Fact Checkers Were Wrong — Truth Will Never Be Found Through Censorship
By Don Via, Jr. Over the last twelve months, social media’s expurgation of any and all information pertaining to Covid-19, not part-and-parcel to the mainstream…