The big lie foisted on the public to excuse Apple and Google removing the Parler app and then later for Amazon booting Parler off its website hosting platform continues to unravel.
Parler Vindicated: Study Finds Facebook ‘Far and Away’ Most Used Social Media By Capitol Hill Rioters

The coordinated Big Tech deplatforming of Parler is looking more and more suspect. Last month, I reviewed every arrest report the DOJ had made available at that time, and the overwhelming number of social media posts cited in these reports were those posted on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. There was barely...
The claim that Parler represents some unique risk to public safety is a lie driven by politics

The takedown of Parler, currently in progress, is one of most chilling and ominous signs that this country is heading to a very bad place, a lot worse than we have seen.
Facebook Purges #WalkAway Movement Page, Thousands of Testimonials Gone

The WalkAway movement was started by Brandon Straka, who left the Democrat party and became a Trump-supporting conservative after the 2016 election.
Straka inspired hundreds of thousands of other Americans who felt the Democrats had moved too far left and also walked away from the party. Now Facebook has purged...
Facebook, YouTube, Shopify All Move to Deplatform Trump and Questions About 2020 Election

In response to the breach of the Capitol building, several online platforms have deplatformed Trump.
Teacher Claims She Was Forced to Resign Over Facebook Post Critical of Black Lives Matter Protests

A special education teacher from Pennsylvania named Ashley Bennett says she was forced to resign after merely sharing a comment that was critical of the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer.
Bennett’s story is just getting some notice now and she appeared on the Tucker Carlson show with her lawyer...
Michigan Lawmaker Threatens Trump Supporters

Michigan state Rep. Cynthia Johnson (D-Detroit) said she received “threatening phone calls” after she questioned Rudy Giuliani over claims of voter fraud.
Johnson responded by urging people to make Trump supporters “pay.”
Candace Owens Takes On Facebook “Fact Checker” PolitiFact And Wins

I’ve long been an admirer of conservative firebrand Candace Owens. She’s a smart as a whip and absolutely fearless champion of conservative principles—of limited government, of the Bill of Rights, and of American values that want to lift up every American of every race, religion, creed, etc. rather than dragging everyone,...
Parler Is Over The Target – Catching Flak From Mainstream Media And Twitter Trolls

Have you noticed? The mainstream media is obsessed with Parler. Obsessed with trying to marginalize Parler, to be more precise.
Senator Who Lied About Vietnam Service Wants Facebook To Ban Steve Bannon

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey faced another round of questioning in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A few moments stuck out to me: Sen. Da Nang Dick Richard Blumenthal
(D-CT) told Zuckerberg to ban Steve Bannon and Dorsey admitted it
was a mistake for the platform to...
Prepare for the Great Decoupling – Deplatforming moves downstream to WordPress.com and Mailchimp

In the past day there have been two very disturbing developments in internet deplatforming.
My digital landscape is changing post election

The pre-election panel discussion on Sunday, Nov. 1st seems ages ago. It is amazing how time slows down when your are in a nightmare.
Mark Levin: ‘Facebook Placed Severe Restrictions’ on His Page Day Before Election

Conservative commentator Mike Levin revealed Facebook censored his page “based on an extremely dishonest Politifact review” of an “accurate story” he posted.
Facebook is Making it Difficult for Pennsylvania Trump Supporters to Organize

In case there was still any question as to where Big Tech’s loyalty lies…
Backlash against Big Tech censorship may destroy their business models, and “they will have no one but themselves to blame”

As you know, I have written a lot here about the creeping authoritarianism of big tech, particularly the massive social media platforms that dominate political communications. In my Dreadful 9th Anniversary post in 2017, I wrote of the danger:
After Censorship Outrage, FCC Will Move Forward with Rulemaking to Clarify Free Speech Rights of Social Media Companies

Social media platforms, namely Facebook and Twitter, have hidden behind a specific provision, Section 230 of the Communications Act, maintaining that they are platforms, not publishers, justification they’ve used in broad and largely ideologically specific content and user censorship.
Thursday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai indicated those days may soon come...
Facebook and Twitter declared digital war today by throttling NY Post blockbuster Biden story

The big story of the day was a NY Post blockbuster that shows Joe Biden may have been lying all along about what and when he knew his son Hunter was selling access to his father, the then Vice President of the United States.