A Reality Czar? What Could Possibly Go Wrong
By Gary M. Galles In his April 25 American Enterprise Institute post, “Obama is Wrong About Regulating Disinformation,” Mark Jamison disputes Barack Obama’s recent argument…
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The People Behind DHS’s Orwellian “Disinformation Governance Board”
By Jeff Thompson A “Disinformation Governance Board” has just been created and is going to be run by the Department of Homeland Security. Their primary…
On the Digital Wall, Pt II
By Melissa Dykes This is a follow up to Where Did the Rest of the Internet Go? This is a take on the silver lining……
EU Puts Elon Musk On Notice Over Free Speech Plans For Twitter
By Tyler Durden The European Union has put Elon Musk on notice – warning that he faces hefty fines or even a ban if he…
Adults and Children Continuously Targeted for Data Extraction, Surveillance and Censorship
By Steven Maxwell It isn’t an exaggeration to say that not a single day goes by without a new data exploit, hack, breach, leak, or…
Where Did the Rest of the Internet Go?
By Melissa Dykes Have you ever heard of the Potemkin Village? Your search engine might be making you think there are millions of pages of…
1,100+ Banned Books Across 26 States: Report Shows “Shocking” Censorship
By Jake Johnson A report published Thursday by the free expression group PEN America details an “alarming” and unprecedented surge in book banning across the…
Social Media Platforms in Sri Lanka Briefly Restricted Amidst Curfew and Protests
By Rezwan On the evening of Sunday, April 3, 2022, global Internet monitor NetBlocks reported that access to major social media platforms (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter,…
New Google Docs Feature to Flag “potentially discriminatory or inappropriate language”
By Tom Parker Google Docs has announced that it will start flagging “potentially discriminatory or inappropriate language” and prompting users to make their writing “more…
The Kids Online Safety Act Is a Heavy-Handed Plan to Force Platforms to Spy on Young People
By Jason Kelley Putting children under surveillance and limiting their access to information doesn’t make them safer—in fact, research suggests just the opposite. Unfortunately those…
How to Get Around the Digital Iron Curtain — “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett
By The Corbett Report As the battle lines are drawn in the new cold war, a digital iron curtain is descending across the internet. Governments…
Presearch Search Engine — “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett
By The Corbett Report Now that DuckDuckGo has officially DuckDuckGone in the direction of censorship, what’s a free speech-loving, liberty-minded conspiracy realist to do? Never…
Another Tech Company Attacks “Health Misinformation”
By Matt Hampton Discord recently announced an update to its terms of service that prohibits “false or misleading health information that is likely to result…
DuckDuckGo Bows to Authoritarians, Begins Censoring Search Engine Results to “Fight Disinformation”
By Matt Agorist Arguably the world’s most popular private search engine, DuckDuckGo, has long been a haven for those who do not want to participate…