Category: Censorship & Big Tech Control
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Canada Proposes Law To Regulate User-Generated Content
The following article was written by Did Rankovic and was published by Reclaim the Net last June 20, 2022. In it, Rankovic reports on the developments relating to Canada’s Online Streaming Act, wherein criticisms about the bill are not being heard and arguments are being invalidated as “misinformation”. In its current form, the bill gives…
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UK, California move to restrict what doctors can say online
In this April 30, 2022 article for Reclaim the Net, Cindy Harper reports that the UK’s General Medical Council has updated the Hippocratic Oath to reflect the current regime of censorship. The draft guidance prohibits doctors from discussing topics that are out of their expertise, saying doctors must “be honest and trustworthy…make clear the limits…
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Disinformation Board Paused Amid Massive Pushback
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was forced to pause the new and controversial disinformation board following weeks of criticism from the public. The report on this was written by Nomaan Merchant and Amanda Seitz. It was published last May 19, 2022, by The Associated Press. According to the DHS, “The Board has been grossly…
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Free speech concerns following creation of DHS Disinformation Governance Board
In this April 30, 2022 article for Fox News, Kelly Laco reports on the various concerns surrounding the creation of the Department of Homeland Security’s new “disinformation board” which was intended to “combat online disinformation”. Several politicians have already expressed their opposition against it, with some saying that this was the Biden administration’s attempt to…
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Christian Drosten, Karl Lauterback try to block evaluation of Germany’s coronavirus measures
In this April 26, 2022 article published by Report 24, we discover that Germany’s Health Minister, Karl Lauterbach, and Christian Drosten, the country’s COVID “expert” is blocking a committee mandated to evaluate the country’s COVID response. According to the report, Drosten has previously spoken against the assessment of the containment measures implemented by Germany saying…
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CNN+ shuts down barely a month since launch
CNN+, an online streaming service that featured live original CNN staples and anchors from other networks is set to shut down on April 30, 2022, one month after it was debuted. In this April 22, 2022 feature for USA Today, Bill Goodykoontz explains the reasons behind this decision. According to Goodykoontz, the death of CNN+…
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Twitter commits to censorship, adopts poison bill to stop Elon Musk takeover and return of free speech on platform
In this April 16, 2022 article for Axios, Jacob Knutson and Sara Fischer offers a rundown of the issues surrounding Twitter’s adoption of The Rights Plan, more commonly known as the “poison pill”. According to the authors, the Board’s decision to adopt the strategy was clearly meant to deter Elon Musk from owning the social…
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Twitter blocks link to mainstream news article questioning COVID death statistics in UK
In this March 20, 2022 article for Reclaim the Net, Christina Maas reports on a recent censorship effort launched by Twitter against an article written by Eve Simmons, the UK Daily Mail’s deputy health editor discussing the issues in COVID death reporting. According to Maas, Twitter has attached a “Warning: this link may be unsafe”…
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CCH is Experiencing Censorship. Here is How to Follow the Latest CCH News and Episodes.
Dear Friends, Before anything else, thank you so much for following us on Facebook. We appreciate your interest in keeping yourself updated on the latest national and global developments. Because of this, I want to share with you this important news. The live stream of our Public Seminar Series at Facebook (FB) has been heavily…
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DuckDuckGo Adopts Policies of Google, Will ‘Down-Rank’ What It Decides Is ‘Disinformation’
In a March 10, 2022 article published in Breitbart, Luca Nolan reported that DuckDuckGo, an alternative search engine, has announced that it will be “down-ranking” sites associated with “disinformation,” along with adding “information boxes” to “highlight quality information.” According to the report, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg tweeted about the decision[efn_note]https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318[/efn_note], stating that it was an effort to…
