Category: arbitrary online censorship

Users Reject PayPal’s Attempt to Limit Speech. They Should.

Commentary An update to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) of PayPal, the multinational payments platform, was interpreted to say the company will withhold up to $2,500 of account holders’ funds as “liquidated damages” if  users “provide false, inaccurate, or misleading information.”  The new policy was first highlighted by the Daily Wire on Oct. 7. Even…


American Library Association Removes Webpage Promoting ‘Secret’ LGBT Messaging in Libraries

The American Library Association (ALA) destroyed a webpage that taught librarians how to secretly promote pro-LGBT messaging. The original page, written by Maryland librarian Tess Goldwasser, told librarians how to sneak pro-LGBT books into towns that don’t want them. “Do you work for a library in a small, rural, conservative community? Are you a frontline…


World Economic Forum Publishes Article Calling for Global Censorship Using AI and Human Intelligence

An opinion article published on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website has proposed creating an artificial intelligence program that could end up acting as a comprehensive global censorship tool. In the article, writer and cybersecurity expert Inbal Goldberger proposes combining a powerful AI network with input from human intelligence data to track and preemptively stop…


So This Conservative Comic Goes on Social Media and …

It’s a situation so funny that a growing number of ostracized comics forgot to laugh: Conservative-leaning material, they say, is increasingly subject to arbitrary online censorship by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media giants—treatment that appears to have no other explanation except the targets’ bucking of leftist orthodoxy. Openly conservative stand-up Nick Di Paolo…