Sen. Blumenthal Touts UK Regs for US Social Media

Catherine Salgado
December 9th, 2021 1:09 PM

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) repeatedly praised U.K. regulation of social media platforms and called for the U.S. to adopt the U.K. model at a Dec. 8 Senate hearing on Instagram. Both the U.K. government and Blumenthal tend to support increased censorship and restrictions of online speech, however.

 
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Sens. Cruz, Blackburn, Sullivan RIP TikTok for Ties to Communist China

Catherine Salgado
October 26th, 2021 5:10 PM

The U.S. Senate hearing on SnapChat, TikTok, and YouTube today made one thing very clear: TikTok does not appear to want to give straight answers about its connection to China. But U.S. Senators took the Big Tech platform to the mat.

 

Dems Call for More Censorship Amidst Facebook Whistleblower Testimony

Catherine Salgado
October 5th, 2021 5:35 PM

Another hearing, another opportunity for the left to call for online censorship. That’s precisely what Democratic Party senators did during the Facebook whistleblower hearing today.

 

Too Toxic for Teens? Blackburn, Blumenthal Having Hearing on Instagram

Catherine Salgado
September 29th, 2021 12:28 PM

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) will be convening a bipartisan hearing to investigate recent allegations that Facebook has hidden its own research showing its Instagram platform is toxic for teens.

 
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WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki PUSHES for Big Tech to Censor More

Alexander Hall
September 28th, 2021 4:02 PM

It’s as if Big Tech has not already been censoring enough. Now the Biden administration is pushing platforms in an even more censorious direction. COVID-19, like many national crises, has been used to push for more government tyranny. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained in a September 24 Morning Joe interview that platforms don't censor Americans enough: “As we’re in the…

 

Dems Use Section 230 Repeals to Gun for Online Firearms Marketplaces

Catherine Salgado
September 20th, 2021 5:39 PM

The left wants to censor more! Big Tech has continued its onslaught of censorship of free speech online at the behest of the left. And now the left is gunning for online firearms marketplaces with a proposed repeal of certain Section 230 protections.

 

WSJ: Big Tech Platforms Are Addictive, Toxic for Teen Girls, Minors

Catherine Salgado
September 16th, 2021 11:18 AM

Several Big Tech companies reportedly know their social media sites are toxic for minors, and the sites may even perpetuate that toxicity.

 

Blackburn, Blumenthal, Klobuchar UNLEASH App Store Competition Bill

Alexander Hall
August 12th, 2021 1:12 PM

Big Tech’s greatest enemy may be bipartisan legislation, as politicians from both sides of the aisle unite to introduce the Open App Markets Act.

 
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CBS Worried Impeachment Trial Could Keep 2020 Dems ‘Stuck’ in D.C.

Nicholas Fondacaro
November 21st, 2019 10:02 PM
Following a Thursday report pushing Democratic Party concerns about Senate Republicans having lunch at the White House to discuss impeachment, CBS White House correspondent Ben Tracy shared additional concerns that an impeachment trial in the Senate could keep Democratic candidates off the campaign trail. But the larger problem that didn’t seem to cross his mind, was the fact that President Trump…
 

Dems Hope to Make Google Sing on Patient Data in ‘Project Nightingale’

Alexander Hall
November 19th, 2019 11:41 AM
Millions of Americans’ medical data was reportedly shared with Google, and even liberals are calling foul. Democratic leaders, including House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) have all condemned a business arrangement between Google and Ascension, the leaders “asking for more information…
 

Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathered Millions of Americans’ Data

Alexander Hall
November 12th, 2019 4:30 PM
Skeptical of Big Tech’s power over your life? Recent reports reveal Google may know all about your medical history. One of the world’s largest companies is reportedly involved in a massive plan to “collect and crunch” the personal health info of millions of Americans. The project code-named “Project Nightingale,” was reported on by The Wall Street Journal as “the biggest effort yet by a Silicon…
 

FTC Commissioner Wants to Take Zuckerberg to Court

Corinne Weaver
July 25th, 2019 2:44 PM
No one is happy with the fine the FTC  levied on Facebook. Not even the FTC. Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter wrote in a July 24 letter that she objected to the $5 billion fine handed to Facebook for privacy violations. “I am skeptical that its terms will have a meaningful disciplining effect on how Facebook treats data and privacy,” she wrote, arguing instead that the FTC…
 

Media Complicit in Collusion Narrative

Cal Thomas
March 28th, 2019 8:56 PM
What Sean Davis, co-founder of the web magazine The Federalist, wrote in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal sums up the disgust many Americans are feeling about the way big media handled the Russia collusion story: “It wasn't merely an error here or there. America's blue-chip journalists botched the entire story, from its birth during the presidential campaign to its final breath Sunday — and they…
 
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Colbert Sneers: Fox News Would Be Just a Test Pattern If You Ban Liars

Randy Hall
March 28th, 2019 6:19 AM
During Tuesday night’s edition of The Late Show on CBS, liberal host Stephen Colbert yet again slammed President Trump. He also trashed Fox News as full of liars. This is ironic, given how wrong the rest of the media was on the Mueller report. As part of his routine that evening, the late-night comic attempted to shift blame from Trump’s critics to the President himself “because he acted super-…