Rise of the Alternative Platforms! (The Union Of The Unwanted)
By Macroaggressions with Charlie Robinson Join Jeremy of LBRY, Erin from Flote.app, and Jaime from ROKFIN as they discuss alternative video platforms with Matthew from…
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The Digital “Iron Curtain” Descends
By Alastair Crooke What is a ‘digital Iron Curtain’? It is when Big Digital, as Professor Michael Rectenwald terms these Western Tech Goliaths, become ‘governmentalities’,…
Snowden Gives New Interview On Press Freedom And War on Whistleblowers
By John Vibes In a new interview with Glenn Greenwald, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden discussed press freedom and online censorship. They also talked about how…
Somali Journalists Say New Media Law Will Muzzle Free Press
By Mohamed Adan Ishak With the recent passage of a controversial media bill into law by Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmjo, Somalia’s media workers worry…
Whoever Controls The Ideological Landscape Controls The World
By Dustin Broadbery The following quotes are from the Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Neil Basu, published in the Evening Standard on 19th November….
The Beginning is Nigh — James Corbett Interview on “Declare Your Independence”
By The Corbett Report James joins Ernest Hancock for his regular weekly appearance on Declare Your Independence. This time they discuss the end of YouTube…
Big Tech Censoring Educational Videos on Kratom, Labeling Them “Dangerous or Harmful Content”
By John Bush For years now I have watched YouTube, Facebook, and other social media sites ban and censor anti-establishment pages and groups. While many…
Shutdowns, Throttling and Stifling Dissent Online: Africa’s New Normal, Part I
By Khattab Hamad and Nwachukwu Egbunike Editor’s note: This is a two-part analysis on the growing trend of using school examinations, mass protests or elections…
Dozens of Raids Over “Racist and Xenophobic” Online Speech Sweep Germany
By Joe Jankowski Police have raided dozens of residences in Germany as a part of a Europe-wide effort to silence online speech deemed racist and…
Federal Judge Denies Emergency Injunction Against Punch Google Lawsuit To Restore Free Speech
By Maryam Henein On November 4th, Judge Beth Labson Freeman denied the emergency injunction recently filed against Google. Now the plaintiffs are considering all of…
Google Whistleblower & Conservative Influencers File Lawsuit To Punch Google & Restore Free Speech
By Maryam Henein The unprecedented censorship we are facing is the biggest threat to democracy in our history. Imagine waking up to find that, without…
Author on “Fake News”: Corporations and Gov’t Shouldn’t Censor or Teach “Media Literacy” to Students
By B.N. Frank In 2019 The New York Times announced that the media outlet had partnered with tech behemoth, Verizon, to create a 5G Journalism…
And Then They Came for the Books…
By Aaron Dykes In addition to the online censorship, many real-world libraries have shut down. Aaron covers the shutdowns in his area and the wider…
There Is A Solution To Big Tech Censorship — But No Politician Will Touch it
Op-Ed by Brandon Smith The issue of censorship by major tech companies is a precarious one, and I’m becoming increasingly suspicious of the nature of…