Tag: Online

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 […]

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 […]

UN plan to control online speech 

THE Epoch Times reports today that ‘a powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while cracking down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories” . . . the UN Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) outlined a series of “concrete measures which must be implemented by all […]