If there is one thing Twitter has become since Elon Musk’s takeover of the company, it’s entertaining. Musk reinstated popular accounts with large followings that had previously been suspended. This included former President Donald Trump, though he has yet to use it again. Musk has also prioritized the removal of child sexual exploitation material, calling…
BREAKING REPORT: Kyle Rittenhouse is just like most other 18 year old boys. Early in the day on Saturday, Kyle Rittenhouse favorited an image of a topless woman on Twitter. As Twitter will post tweets you favorite in the feeds of your followers, suddenly this image began to display in the feeds of Kyle’s followers,…
On November 29, 2021, I published an article on School Choice in the online publication Medium. Its focus was how the United States (local, state, and federal governments) spends more money on K-12 public school education than it would cost to give a full scholarship to every K-12 student in the nation—public and private. The…
On Saturday, Twitter disabled a tweet from sitting Congressman, Representative Thomas Massie who questioned the efficacy of getting a COVID vaccine if you’ve already previously contracted the virus. The tweet read: “Natural immunity >> vaccine immunity So why force or coerce those with natural immunity from prior infection into taking the vaccine?” Retweeting because it's…
The Biden administration confirms it aggressively works with Big Tech “…to flag ‘problematic’ posts “that spread disinformation on Covid-19” on the internet. George Orwell would call such activity propaganda. Historians characterize such a close working relationship between government and big business as fascism. To the Biden administration, it’s merely cleaning up “misinformation”. Whatever the American…
In 2020, many of us have become accustomed to terms and concepts we never thought we’d be discussing: “social distancing,” mask requirements, and Zoom parties all come to mind. We can add Section 230 to that list, an obscure provision of the Communications and Decency Act (1996) that was previously unknown to most. Section 230…
Best speech flourishes when hate speech is allowed. As Nadine Strossen, civil liberties activist and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said, “hate speech laws are at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive.” Strossen’s first premise is that in countries with stricter hate speech laws, there was a rise in racist hatred…
In what might be the latest example of censorship by a large tech company, the email marketing company Mailchimp adopted a new policy this week to remove certain content. Mailchimp determined it will use its “sole discretion” to determine whether messages are misleading and can be removed. In a customer message obtained by The Daily…
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By Anthony Rogers How, in a country that has a Bill of Rights claiming we have Free Speech and Freedom of Press in the First Amendment, are speech and press so controlled? The goal isn’t to tell the truth or make sure everyone on the internet is honest. The goal is to manipulate people into…
In a recent release, the company renowned for World of Warcraft and Call of Duty, Activision-Blizzard, announced their latest title in the latter series set to release sometime later this year—Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. However, not all has gone well with the reception of it for the Triple A publisher, even though…