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Press freedom and narrative control.IrrussianalityFunny old worldPaul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

If the establishment media were truly balanced, social media’s purge of alternative news outlets would be a front-page splash. The fact it isn’t proves that those who shout loudest about “free speech” may be its greatest enemies.Sadly, RT saw something like this coming. And for that reason, we have developed a new site to promote the free exchange of information and views. The fact it launches on the same weekend that US social media giants Facebook and Twitter clamped down on dissent is...

More signs of the collapse of American liberalism. The Unz ReviewOn the Censorship of Michael Hoffman's Books by Amazon The Saker interviews Michale HoffmanSee also When Europeans land on the U.S. No-Fly List, they have almost no chance to challenge it, as a German couple from Stuttgart recently found out the hard way. Their case casts light on an Orwellian lack of transparency in the war on terror. Spiegel Online EnglishOrwellian Nightmare: A German Couple Winds Up on U.S. No-Fly List...

The phone was fully charged, and yet … Opps! During a radio interview on Sept. 6, Ray’s cellphone went mysteriously dead after ten minutes, precisely at minute 16:44, a second after he questioned whether Robert Mueller deserves the sainthood bestowed on him in Establishment media. The radio studio could find no technical reason to account for why the line dropped abruptly immediately after Ray words that Mueller’s “reputation for honesty does not withstand close...

Expect additions to this thread. This is a developing story. “Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen. They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others.......” the president tweeted.  “.....Censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police. If you are weeding out Fake News, there is...

Social media wars hotting up.. Zero HedgeTop Iran General 'Ready for Jihad'; Posts White House Explosion Pic On Instagram Tyler Durden See also What Twitter views as abusive, Caitlin sees as telling truth to power. Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistTwitter Has Shut Down My Account For “Abusing” John McCainCaitlin Johnstone

Need to regulate versus opportunity to control versus threat of ruining.Wall Street On ParadeWould Sen. Warner’s Ambitious Plan to Regulate Social Media Giants “Ruin” the Internet—Or Save it?Pam Martens and Russ Martens

... the current case in question is quite different than any past case study in a private entity’s constitutional requirements where freedom of speech are concerned. Firstly, just a handful of big tech companies control virtually all social media platforms, effectively operating an illegal, anti-free market monopoly. This is not a normal, or even legal form of private business in the United States. Secondly, these companies are banning individuals and groups in coordination with one another...

When you hound the parents of dead children and promote the theory that inter-dimensional “lizard people” are secretly running the world, you relinquish the right to be taken seriously by a lot of people. But this is not about Alex Jones or what he believes. It is about the fact that the Left has willfully decided that massive corporations, working hand-in-glove with government agencies, as we know they do, should be the arbiters of truth and should hold the power to decide what we see,...

Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela. Venezuelanalysis.com, a left-leaning news site that writes from a pro-Bolivarian revolution stance, has been around since 2003. Critics, including the US government, brand it as a propaganda outlet of the government in Caracas. The site says it is funded by donations and...