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Fearing Censorship, Peterson and Rubin set to launch alternative to Patreon 0
- Front Page, Tech Freedom
- December 20, 2018
`World renowned clinical psychologist and intellectual superstar Jordan Peterson announced on Monday he has plans to launch an alternative form of Pateron as a result of several “controversial conservative” public figures being unexplainably deplatformed by the service. Peterson and Dave Rubin of the popular Youtube based show “The Rubin Report” recently had a conversation about
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Google’s Secret Chinese Censorship Project Effectively Ends After Employees Revolted 0
- Front Page, Tech Freedom
- December 18, 2018
Chris White Google abandoned a program aimed at developing a censored search engine for China after employees complained that the plan was not being publicly disclosed, The Intercept reported Monday night. The internal fighting has effectively ended work on the so-called Dragonfly, a search engine the company was creating to comport with China’s censorship laws, the report notes,
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FCC’s Last-Minute Rule Change Saves Californians From Paying Text Tax 0
- Front Page, Tech Freedom
- December 17, 2018
Chris White on December 17, 2018 Republish Reprint California regulators are giving up on a plan to tax citizens’ text messages after the Federal Communications Commission made a rule change effectively preventing such taxes. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) expressed interest in adding a tax to text messages to funds for programs upping connectivity in some underserved
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Republican Matt Gaetz Grills Google CEO For Not Investigating Anti-conservative Employee Bias 0
- Front Page, Tech Freedom
- December 11, 2018
Evie Fordham Republish Reprint Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz grilled Google’s CEO at Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on Google employees’ alleged political bias. Gaetz pushed Google CEO Sundar Pichai to explain why Google had not investigated whether Google employees had manipulated search tools or other Google products in light of communications like emails about Breitbart that
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Elon Musk Tells ’60 Minutes’ What He Really Thinks Of Federal Investigators 0
- Headline News, Tech Freedom
- December 11, 2018
Chris White on December 10, 2018 Tesla CEO Elon Musk did not hold back his disdain of the Securities and Exchange Commission during a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday as the Silicon Valley company battles investigations targeting its founder. “I want to be clear. I do not respect the SEC,” Musk told the program’s host, Lesley Stahl.
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Lindsey Graham Says He Will ‘Get To The Bottom’ Of FISA Abuse As Senate Judiciary Chairman 0
- Front Page, Tech Freedom
- December 9, 2018
Chuck Ross Sen. Lindsey Graham pledged Saturday to continue an investigation into the FBI’s alleged abuse of the federal surveillance court. Graham is poised to take over the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he will have oversight of the FBI, Justice Department and federal court system. Republicans have accused the FBI of mishandling the infamous Steele
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