Articles featuring analysis of the global censorship industrial complex, impacts on public health, free trade, liberty, and policy.
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Germany’s ARD public television published a commentary last weekend describing censored Twitter voices as “rats” and calling for them to be “beaten back into their holes.”
German Public Television Compares Censored Twitter Voices to “Rats” Read More »
So you ask, “why didn’t more physicians stand up and object?”Because the entire profession has been subjected to the most aggressive and coordinated propaganda, censorship, and defamation campaign the modern western world has ever seen.
Censorship and Defamation: Weapons of Control Read More »
Economic destruction, increased suicide attempts due to seemingly indefinite isolation, horrifying levels of learning loss, increasing obesity amongst kids, plummeting test scores, increased poverty and hunger, supply chain problems, rampant inflation; all of it is a direct result of policies imposed by terrified, incompetent “experts.”
A Closer Look at the Covid Mortality Rate Read More »
Does anyone really imagine that the Biden administration has anything remotely like this sort of capacity to direct the actions of online platforms? Make no mistake about it. Twitter censorship is government censorship. But the government in question is not the US government, but rather the European Union, and the EU is, in effect, imposing its censorship on the entire world.
How the EU is Forcing Twitter to Censor (and Musk Can’t Stop It) Read More »
Since the Spring of 2020, economists have had a strong incentive to censor themselves about the costs of covid measures for fear of being seen as out of step with the hastily achieved consensus that covid measures came without any significant costs to the public. Economists dismissed any dissent from the lockdown consensus. On Twitter and elsewhere, those few who dared dissent were labelled cranks or grandma killers.
The Economists Self-Censored and Inflation Is a Result Read More »
By simultaneously threatening both the federal bureaucracy and social media companies, a handful of high-level officials could effectively transform the federal government into a sprawling censorship army reminiscent of Mao’s Red Guards, silencing any opposition to tin-pot public health policies with increasing detachment and certitude as this systematic silencing falsely convinced them that the regime’s policies were just and good.
Fauci’s Red Guards: The Mass Censoring of Social Media Read More »
This evidence suggests we are uncovering the most serious, coordinated, and large-scale violation of First Amendment free speech rights by the federal government’s executive branch in U.S. history.
Uncovering the Army of Federal Censors Read More »
It is not easy to show censorship by a small series of rejected letters. Rejection messages contain only boilerplate text, and editors are protected by an obvious argument: They need to make difficult choices, given many submissions.
The Censorship of Covid Science: Three Examples Read More »
The Government is deciding what speech is acceptable and may be heard, and what speech is not acceptable and must be silenced, on the most hotly debated political topics of our time. This strikes at the heart of what the First Amendment is supposed to protect.
The Federal Government Forces Social Media Companies to Censor Americans Read More »
Musk’s taking some control of Twitter is a bright spot. It gives the world a brilliant example of something we’ve not seen for a very long time. It reveals how great wealth can be used to challenge power to stop doing evil. It’s just a beginning.
Can Elon Musk Defeat the Censors? Read More »
In taking this action, LinkedIn has denied crucial information to millions of professionals who deserve to hear a different opinion about the mass firings taking place in light of the vaccine mandates that contradict the known science and freedom in the marketplace for jobs. The move is a direct hit against workers and their career aspirations.
Harvard Epidemiologist Censored by LinkedIn for Defending Healthcare Jobs Read More »
Receiving less attention has been the rise of censorship on the Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, the social network for professionals that has thus far seemed to be a less active participant in the Covid information wars. Its largely passive approach is starting to change.
LinkedIn Censors Harvard Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff Read More »
