Category: Tech Censorship

How a TikTok ban works

April 23, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hello there! If you were disappointed to see basketball star Caitlin Clark’s modest WNBA salary, take comfort knowing she just inked an eight-figure endorsement deal with Nike.   In today’s big story, we’re looking at the steps being […]

Can Congress Ban TikTok?

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2024 Whenever the offense inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. – Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776] HORNBERGER’S BLOG March 27, 2024 Does Social […]

Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism

Google provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression by threatening a popular economics site with demonetization Matt Taibbi Mar 22, 2024 Share The future of AI-powered censorship is here, and the early returns are as error-filled and clumsily destructive as Google’s infamous Gemini rollout. On March […]

Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous

Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers? Matt Taibbi Mar 15, 2024 Nancy Pelosi speaks to reporters after an intelligence briefing on TikTok It’s funny how things work. Last year at this time, Americans overwhelmingly supported a ban on TikTok. Polls showed […]

Google’s Brave New Woke-AF World

When DEI merges with AI, the post-truth dystopia will become impossible to escape. Andrew Sullivan Mar 1 ∙ Paid READ IN APP Gemini’s result when Cynical Publius asked it to “create images of Henry Ford.” “The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint […]

The Right to Speak Freely Online

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, two cases that, David Cole writes in the March 21, 2024, issue of the Review, are among several this term that “will determine the future of free speech” on the Internet. In the NetChoice cases, a firm representing a […]

America Is In Danger

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more America Is In Danger The US Defense Department must be held to account for waging psychological warfare against the American people Michael Shellenberger Dec 8 ∙ Preview READ IN APP Our military, police, and intelligence officials exist to protect us from […]

Big Brother Is Flagging You

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2023 Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. – Edward Abbey HORNBERGER’S BLOG November 8, 2023 Israeli Officials Are Right About Hiroshima and Nagasaki In an effort to justify the Israeli government’s massive infliction of death and destruction on the people of Gaza, the […]

Please Register Your Podcast With the Government

Appears in this episode The Corbett Report The Corbett Report explore the world of politics, history, science and economics from a radically alternative perspective. From geopolitical conspiracies to monetary manipulation, repressed history and social engineering, The Corbett Report goes where other podcasts fear to tread.show more Episode details […]

GoFundMe, Go To Hell

After they froze a successful GrayZone fundraiser over unnamed “external concerns,” GoFundMe became the official poster child for the politicization of economic services Matt Taibbi Aug 31, 2023 The online crowdfunding site GoFundMe just shut down a fundraising initiative for The Grayzone, a left-leaning, antiwar site led by […]