Award-winning journalist Lara Logan delivers a powerful first-hand account of the censorship and persecution faced by truth-tellers who dare to challenge establishment narratives, underscoring the vital role of free speech in safeguarding the future of freedom itself.
Amid escalating assertions over foreign influence in US elections, the White House is exploring a controversial proposal that some warn could threaten free speech and open debate. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan recently confirmed that the administration has been “grappling with and thinking about” the potential creation of an “information czar,” sparking concern over the government’s expanding role in controlling narratives under the guise of national security. Continue reading “White House Security Advisor’s “Information Czar” Idea Triggers Free Speech Concerns”
We all recall with tender hearts the riveting tale of young lovers who would rather have killed themselves together than live life apart, as told by none other than William Shakespeare.
This is like that — except that, in this slightly more dystopian version, one of the lovers is an ephemeral machine in the cloud based on a fictional fantasy character and the other is an obviously developmentally stunted child.
German MEP Christine Anderson has her microphone cut after delivering some home truths to Ursula Von der Leyen:
"You negotiated a contract worth billions with your friends from Pfizer, for a product that was useless at best, harmful at worst, and in many cases even fatal."
As Congress turns its attention to Big Tech and its role in censoring online speech, concerns about the influence of government in shaping digital discourse are front and center. Lawmakers are probing the boundaries of government involvement in content moderation and questioning whether federal agencies have quietly steered private companies toward censorship. For an increasing number of lawmakers, it’s time to take a closer look at how far government influence over private platforms may extend—and what that means for free speech. Continue reading “Lawmakers Demand Answers on Feds’ Secret Influence Over Big Tech Speech Policing”
Tren de Aragua gang members who took over apartment complexes in Aurora, CO tortured tenants to pay rent. They poured boiling water on a pregnant woman to force her to pay them. She went into labor early due to stress.
It seems every election cycle needs a bogeyman, and for Senator Mark Warner, that bogeyman is Russian disinformation. Fresh off Capitol Hill, Warner’s latest initiative is to investigate how major internet domain companies—yes, the middlemen who register web addresses—might play a role in spreading disinformation. The target list reads like a Who’s Who of the digital backstage: Cloudflare, GoDaddy, NameCheap, NameSilo, Newfold, and Verisign. But behind the supposedly patriotic mission to “protect democracy” lies a question worth asking: is Warner protecting discourse, or prepping a Trojan horse to squelch online dissent?