Category: Censorship

Elon Musk’s Twitter Gambit and What It Means to the ‘Clique in Power’ – Epoch Times Commentary

The response to the Twitter takeover by the arbiters of acceptable expression has been as hysterical as it has been swift. The New York Times, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Media Matters for America, members of the establishment professoriate, and other “experts” have rushed to fortify the defensive forces against free speech…. Musk’s commitment to free speech has raised the hackles of the establishment gatekeepers, who ironically figure free speech as a “threat to democracy.” Alluding to Twitter’s state functions, California State East Bay professor of communication and history Nolan Higdon said that Musk’s acquisition makes “democracy less and less likely to work as it’s designed.” Democracy here does not mean equal representation in the public sphere but rather the preordained domination of a particular “democratic” ideology. This ideology is defined by the imperatives of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” which are expressed in terms of acceptable and protected identities and politics.

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Elon Musk Solves Twitter Problem the Old-Fashioned American Way – Epoch Times Commentary

On April 25, Elon Musk reached an agreement with Twitter’s board of directors to acquire and take the company private. He has pledged to pivot the platform toward respect for free speech principles, so that Twitter is “maximally trusted and broadly inclusive.” Less noticed, a few days earlier, on April 21, former community organizer-turned-president Barack Obama addressed an audience at Stanford University. In a slick presentation, he challenged the relevance—the very worth—of “free speech” by most people… The First Amendment is not the issue. Twitter’s carte blanche to act as “thought police,” even in its own realm, is the result of special exemptions from common-law legal liability granted by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, federal legislation that preempted a patch quilt of state tort laws…. But we live in an age of Orwellian dominant platforms, artificial intelligence, and mobile surveillance. The government has, in effect, licensed the private sector to censor political speech. Section 230 is the origin….

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Google Censors Ad Proclaiming ‘Womanhood Is a Birthright,’ Labels It ‘Election Advertising’ – Epoch Times

According to a watch company CEO who has created videos supporting police, rejecting the idea of toxic masculinity, and proclaiming “womanhood is a birthright,” Google is actively censoring his ads by labeling them as “election advertising.” Ilan Muallem Srulovicz is the CEO and Founder of Égard Watch Company, a Florida-based high-end timepiece and jewelry firm. Srulovicz is also an actor, appearing in films like “The Walking Dead,” “Loki,” “Deepwater Horizon,” and “The Big Short.” He has also gained notoriety for using his resources to support causes that are not considered to be politically correct.

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AGENDA Weekly Brief Week of April 10-16 By Curtis Bowers

This Agenda Weekly brief includes the following topics: DISNEY MAKES IT GAYEST MOVIE YET;  REAL INFLATION IS VASTLY UNDERREPORTED; UNITED NATIONS WARNS OF FOOD CRISIS; BIDEN BANS “GHOST GUNS,” ACCELERATES WAR ON SECOND AMENDMENT; FAUCI PRAISES CHINA’S BRUTAL LOCKDOWNS; COMMUNIST CHILE ENACTS CLIMATE LOCKDOWNS, WATER RATIONING; CANADA CENSORS ALTERNATIVE MEDIA, EXPLORES DIGITAL CURRENCY; SOUTHERN BAPTIST ERLC CALLS JUDGE JACKSON’S NOMINATION “HISTORIC;” BLACKROCK EXPLAINS ITS 2030 AGENDA; LEFTISTS CALL FREE SPEECH PROPONENTS RACIST AND DANGEROUS; BIDEN WAGES WAR ON AMERICA’S NUCLEAR ARSENAL; and 10 accomplishments of the Freedom Agenda. Several videos copied with this post, watch them before they are removed. [In case you didn’t try the links in the summary statements by Curtis Bowers, articles he discusses are usually linked so you can explore his sources.]

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States vs. Biden’s Prison-to-Streets Pipeline for Illegal Immigrant Convicts – Epoch Times

The Biden administration has allowed a more than eleven-fold increase in the number of illegal immigrant offenders let out of Texas prisons and into the general U.S. population, despite federal immigration law requiring ICE to take convicts into custody after serving their time, usually in advance of deportation. The disclosure emerges from state-initiated litigation that is beginning to shed light on what critics call the administration’s secretive and lenient handling of immigrants beginning last year—treatment that is imperiling public safety, alarmed state authorities say. …Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, whose state has joined Texas in suing the Department of Homeland Security and other federal immigration agencies over the issue, said testimony in the case being heard in U.S. District Court in Houston makes clear the Biden administration does not want the public to see how similar releases unfolded nationally in its first year. “I’m appalled the Biden administration has adopted a policy of releasing alien drug cartel members, human traffickers, and child sex abusers onto American streets,” Landry said.

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AGENDA Weekly Brief Week of April 3-9 By Curtis Bowers

Agenda Weekly topics include: U.S. SENATE CONFIRMS KETANJI BROWN JACKSON; LEFTISTS WANT AMERICA OVERRUN WITH ILLEGALS; FOOD SHORTAGES AND FOOD INFLATION INCREASE; TODAY’S FOOD CRISIS WAS “WAR-GAMED” IN 2015; GLOBALISTS CONTINUE TO ADVANCE CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY; BIDEN’S NEW WEALTH TAX WOULD UNDERMINE YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS; MORE EVIDENCE OF COVID VACCINE FRAUD; MILLIONS OF U.K. CHILDREN DAMAGED BY TWO YEARS OF COVID TYRANNY; GOOGLE’S DIGITAL TYRANNY; COLORADO GOVERNOR SIGNS RADICAL INFANTICIDE ABORTION BILL; TSA INTRODUCES “GENDER NEUTRAL” SCREENING MEASURES, LGBTQ AGENDA BECOMES MORE BRAZEN; HUNGARY’S VIKTOR ORBAN WINS LANDSLIDE RE-ELECTION; OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE PASSES MOST PRO-LIFE BILL IN THE NATION; OVER HALF OF WISCONSIN COUNTIES CALL FOR DECERTIFICATION OF 2020 ELECTION RESULTS; REPUBLICAN REGISTRATIONS SURGE IN PENNSYLVANIA; THREE STATES SUE TO KEEP TITLE 42 IMMIGRATION RULE; DUMB PHONE SALES INCREASE, SMARTPHONE SALES DROP; KENTUCKY LAW PROTECTS CHURCHES; and A FLOOD OF FAMILIES CANCEL DISNEY MEMBERSHIPS

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Hunter Laptop Story Confirms: Rein in Big Tech or Cease to Be a Free People – Epoch Times Commentary

On the precipice of the regime-defining 2020 presidential election, Facebook and Twitter committed their “Pearl Harbor attack” against the incumbent president, Donald Trump, and in dutiful favor of the regnant regime’s favored candidate, Joe Biden. In an October move that would presage the collapse of the “public”–”private” distinction during the Biden presidency—as seen in press secretary Jen Psaki’s open bragging last summer of collusion with Mark Zuckerberg to censor COVID “misinformation,” and Eric Schmidt’s recently revealed role helping shape administration science policy—Big Tech oligarchs dropped the hammer on the New York Post, a high-circulation newspaper, for its reporting on Hunter Biden’s now-infamous “laptop from hell.” The laptop’s files demonstrated the notoriously troubled Hunter’s venality, abuses of power, and general sketchiness of his foreign dealings….

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Trump: Fines Paid by Clinton Campaign, DNC Show Corruption

The Clinton campaign and the DNC agreed to pay a combined $113,000 to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), according to documents made public on March 30, after the commission found probable cause that the entities had violated federal law by describing payments that ultimately went to the Fusion GPS research group as going toward legal services and consulting. Fusion used the funds, funneled through the Perkins Coie law firm, to pay for the compilation of a dossier riddled with unsubstantiated claims saying that Trump and his campaign had ties to Russian actors ahead of the 2016 election. …The operation “was done to create … a hoax funded by the DNC and the Clinton campaign,” Trump said. “This corruption is only beginning to be revealed, is un-American, and must never be allowed to happen again.”

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The Real ‘Reset’ Is Coming – Victor Davis Hanson – Epoch Times Commentary

We saw that last year: fleeing from Afghanistan, the embrace of critical race theory, trying to end the filibuster, pack the court, junk the Electoral College, and nationalize voting laws. These “new orders” and “resets” always entail far bigger government and more unelected, powerful bureaucracies. Elites assume that their radical changes in energy use, media reporting, voting, sovereignty, and racial and ethnic quotas will never quite apply to themselves, the architects of such top-down changes. So we common folk must quit fossil fuels, but not those who need to use corporate jets. Walls will not mar our borders but will protect the homes of Nancy Pelosi, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates….

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