Censorship

Woke AI Was No Mistake — It Was Intentional – HotAir

“When you have a broken culture,” Shaun Maguire laments, “you’re just going to keep creating broken products. The Google Gemini images merely confirmed what I already knew.” Maguire is no disinterested observer, either. He spent three years as an investment partner at Google Ventures, until its relentless DEI authoritarianism forced him to look elsewhere for […]

SCOTUS Weighs How Heavily Govt Can Squelch Online Speech – HotAir

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, one of several cases brought against federal officials by multiple states seeking to block them from using their influence over social media companies to suppress primarily conservative content and opinions. Lower courts have previously sided with the states in some of these cases, but […]

I Want to Make TikTok American Again – HotAir

This sounds like a script out of Hollywood — one that Steve Mnuchin himself might have produced. Here’s the pitch: A multi-billionaire with too much time on his hands decides to buy out a social-media platform to save free expression and civil rights in America. Along the way, he meets zany characters like, er, Chinese […]

City Of Franklin BOMA Votes Unanimously To Allow Pride Festival In Public Park Amid Multi-Million Lawsuits Against City Due To Events From Last Year’s Festival

Image Credit: Franklin Tennessee / YouTube & Canva The Tennessee Conservative [By Kelly M. Jackson] – This week, The City of Franklin BOMA (Board of Mayor and Alderman) voted unanimously to grant a permit to Franklin Pride for them to hold their annual Pride Festival in Harlinsdale Park, a public park owned and managed by […]

China is Censoring Bad News About Its Economy – HotAir

The news coming out of China’s economy continues to be a very mixed bag. Officially the country met its 5% growth target last year, but Evergrande is on the verge of liquidation, the stock market is down, foreign investment is down and the PMI numbers for January also show factory activity is still contracting. China’s […]

Bill Addressing Social Media Censorship In Tennessee Deferred While Sponsor Works On Funding

Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – Representative Dennis Powers (R-Jacksboro-District 36) requested that a bill addressing social media censorship be deferred after it was scheduled to be heard in the House Business & Utilities Subcommittee on Tuesday. The Chair of the subcommittee, Representative Clark Boyd, said that because the bill was […]

How Censorship Works Online – HotAir

We are all familiar with the standard form of censorship–simply preventing the dissemination of ideas that are not approved. But that is only one of several forms that censorship can take. I have occasionally been outright censored online–on Twitter 1.0, I was temporarily suspended because the censors didn’t like what I said, and I was […]