Commentary Conservatives are confused about how to view the tech giants, which have become so powerful in so many areas of our lives. Should the Facebooks, Twitters, and Googles be seen as private companies and thus be left alone to be disciplined by the free market? Or should they be seen as de facto monopolies,…
Venn Diagram of Freedom’s Threats: Kim Jong Un-Reliable North Korea Intersects Amazon Servers
Commentary Strategists know trying to see the geopolitical battlefield from an adversary’s point of view is useful, particularly the view of an adversary with a couple of nuclear weapons and a legacy of provocative violence. I can’t really enter the mind of North Korean dictator and chain-smoking lard tub Kim Jong Un, so his point…
NTD Business Full Broadcast (Jan. 15)
We talk to FX Street’s Joseph Trevisani to get his take on President-elect Joe Biden’s stimulus proposal. Does Big Tech’s takedown of Parler expose a double standard — since it left Twitter and Facebook alone? We hear from Breitbart’s senior tech correspondent. Is Amazon inflating e-book prices? A class action lawsuit says the company is…
White House Trade Adviser: Amazon Suspension of Parler Is ‘Chilling’
The move by large technology firms to de-platform “free speech” social media site Parler has a chilling effect, said White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Director Peter Navarro. “What we have here is a classic collusive oligopoly, a kind of new wine in an old bottle,” Navarro told Fox Business. “What we saw with this attack…
Parler Files Response in Lawsuit Against Amazon, Says AWS Only Concerned With Silencing Trump
Parler filed a response to Amazon Web Services on Wednesday in its lawsuit against the Seattle-based retail giant, arguing that a representative with Amazon didn’t care about the content moderation, but was only concerned with allegedly silencing President Donald Trump. It came after Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in court that the company displayed an “unwillingness and…
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January 13, 2021
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Commentary Democracy took a big blow when Twitter shut down President Donald Trump’s accounts and Google and Amazon ousted Parler, a site favored by millions of conservatives. Big Tech, which is run by the left, is robbing Americans of their right to communicate freely and exchange ideas. The nation’s founders worried that the government would…
Amazon Responds to Parler Lawsuit, Claims Case ‘Is Not About Suppressing Speech or Stifling Viewpoints’
Amazon, in response to a lawsuit filed by upstart social media platform Parler, asserted that the company displayed an “unwillingness and inability” to remove violent content after its Monday morning suspension from Amazon Web Services. “This case is not about suppressing speech or stifling viewpoints. It is not about a conspiracy to restrain trade,” Amazon…
Video: Parler CEO On Fighting Censorship and Double Standards, and Restoring Free Speech
A wave of censorship has been launched by mainstream news outlets, big tech, and a handful of businesses that is mainly targeting conservatives. Among the hardest hit by this was social media website Parler, which had its internet services dropped by Amazon, its app removed by Apple, among other forms of censorship. To learn more…
Amazon Partner GoDaddy Removes Gun Website From Its Servers
An Amazon partner on Monday removed a gun website from its servers. AR15.com announced it had gone down. “We’ve been booted from GoDaddy and are looking for an alternative solution,” it said in a social media statement. GoDaddy couldn’t be reached. AR15.com, which hosts a forum and publishes resources for gun owners, appeared to be…
Amazon Removing QAnon Products From Marketplace Following US Capitol Breach
Amazon said on Monday that it was removing some QAnon products that violate the company’s policies from its online marketplace. A spokesperson told The Epoch Times it will block the sale of several products in the coming days related to the movement, which promotes a number of theories about a military operation to expose the…
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