In his opening monologue last night, Tucker Carlson talked about how big tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter affected the outcome of the 2020 election.
He suggested that they acted on behalf of just one party, the Democrats.
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Virginia Wesleyan U. Dean Who Criticized Biden Voters on Facebook Resigns
We just mentioned this story yesterday. Over the last four years we have heard countless people in higher education insult President Trump and the people who support him, and yet I can’t recall any of them being forced to resign over it.
CBS News reports:
University dean resigns after calling Biden voters “ignorant,...
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.
Virginia Wesleyan University Dean Criticizes Biden Voters in Facebook Rant
This takes real courage for someone who works in higher education. The cancel culture mob is already after him.
RedState reports:
VA Wesleyan Dean Paul Ewell Goes Postal on Facebook; Calls Biden Voters Anti-Country and Anti-Christian
Virginia Wesleyan University, a private liberal arts and sciences school in Virginia Beach, is back in the throes...
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.
Jack Dorsey: Twitter Doesn’t Influence Elections, Admits No Policy Against Holocaust Denial
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey what happens if someone on the platform denies the Holocaust ever happened.
Dorsey admitted the company does not “have a policy against that type of misleading information.”
Then Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tore into Dorsey for blocking The New York Post over Hunter Biden’s...
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:
Top Democrat Twitter Accounts Share Fake Email Stating Joni Ernst Lost Iowa Farm Bureau’s Support
Weird. Twitter deleted a tweet from a COVID-19 advisor to President Donald Trump because he said masks don’t work. The platform didn’t allow people to post articles from The New York Post about Hunter Biden’s emails.
Yet they did nothing about a tweet shooting around with a fake email from the Iowa...
Twitter Changes ‘Hacked Materials Policy’ After Backlash From Blocking New York Post’s Hunter Biden Stories
Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s global, policy, and trust & safety lead, announced on Thursday the social platform changed its Hacked Materials Policy after severe backlash from blocking stories on Hunter Biden.
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.
Facebook, Twitter ‘Reducing’ the Distribution of New York Post Story on Hunter Biden Emails
Facebook communications guy Andy Stone said Facebook is purposely “reducing” the distribution of the New York Post‘s story on Hunter Biden’s emails.
Twitter is doing the same thing.
‘I was Being Nice!!’: Tom Arnold Tweets, Deletes Hope Hicks’ Phone Number After Positive COVID Test
Actor Tom Arnold thought it’d be cool to tweet out Hope Hicks’ number after she tested positive for COVID-19.
Prof Complains of Threats After Calling for Death of All Cops and Capitalists
What this person wrote on social media is so over the top that it’s hard to imagine how someone thinks like this.
The College Fix reports (emphasis is mine):
Prof calls for all cops to be...
ABC News Town Hall Labeled Two Anti-Trump Voters as ‘Uncommitted’
The ABC News town hall with President Donald Trump brought on “uncommitted” voters to question the president.
The Washington Free Beacon discovered through social media posts that at least two of the voters have expressed anti-Trump feelings.
Facebook, Instagram Now Flagging Tucker Carlson’s Coronavirus Posts as ‘False Information’
How close are social media giants like Facebook and Instagram to the communist Chinese government?
Cornell Students Petition for Expulsion of Freshman TikTok Star for Flouting Coronavirus Rules
The Coronavirus pandemic is creating a snitch culture on some college campuses. It’s sad.
The Washington Post reports:
Cornell students petition to have freshman TikTok star expelled for flouting coronavirus rules
Colleges have been threatening students with stiff penalties for failing to practice social distancing and wear masks, blasting “selfish and reckless” behavior and...
