As technology companies in the United States roll out new programs to censor users over political speech, there is a growing argument over whether this could be considered a violation of free speech protections in the U.S. Bill of Rights. To learn more about this, we sat down for an interview with James Taylor, president…
Big Tech Is the ‘Enforcement Arm’ of US Government’s Attempts to Suppress Free Speech: James Taylor
Open Debate: An Endangered Canadian Pastime
Commentary Canadians like a robust debate. It’s a healthy pastime reflected in our media and institutions, and spirited water cooler discussions (often about hockey) have long been part of work life. Two Canadian institutions that cover a broad spectrum of debate are the CBC Radio staple The Debaters, and the Munk Debates. The former pits…
State Legislators Grappling to Address Big Tech Censorship
States are busy looking for ways to curb Big Tech’s outsized power as Google, Facebook, and Twitter have ramped up censorship in recent months. Confronting tech censorship, however, has been especially challenging for free-market minded legislators who struggle to achieve the right balance between regulating social media platforms and promoting innovation and free enterprise. State…
As Chinese Regime Cracks Down on Big Tech, Big Tech Cracks Down on American People
Commentary The Big Five—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft—essentially control America. In the United States, the pandemic resulted in the permanent closure of 200,000 businesses. People lost their jobs, their livelihoods, and too many lost their lives. But the pandemic didn’t affect Big Tech. In fact, rather perversely, it seems to have helped. Amazon just released its first quarterly…
Mark Zuckerberg, China, and Facebook’s Brave New World
August 4, 2021
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Commentary Back in 2014, as tech journalist Cate Cadell noted at the time, a 30-year-old Mark Zuckerberg “sent the internet into a frenzy” after agreeing to do a Q&A in Chinese at an event hosted by Tsinghua University. The performance, added Cadell, “drew mixed reviews.” Some were quick to praise Zuckerberg’s “persistence.” Others, meanwhile, were determined to pick apart…
American Tech Sector Keeps Blowing Away the Rest of the World
Commentary Take a bow, America. It’s official and irrefutable: The United States is blowing out the rest of the world in tech leadership. No other country in the world comes anywhere close in tech innovation and the dominance of our made-in-America 21st-century companies. The Nasdaq index of once-small technology companies reached 15,000 last week. Only…
Trump Amends Big Tech Lawsuit as 65,000 Americans Submit Censorship Stories
August 2, 2021
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Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has amended his class action lawsuit against Big Tech to incorporate additional class representatives and more censorship stories provided by everyday Americans. According to the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), Trump’s July 7 lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google is adding ”additional censorship experiences” from some of the nearly…
Russia Opens Case Against WhatsApp for Violating Personal Data Law
MOSCOW—Russia on Friday launched administrative proceedings against Facebook’s WhatsApp for what it said was a failure to localize data of Russian users on Russian territory, the Interfax news agency reported. There was no immediate comment from Facebook. A day earlier, a Russian court fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 3 million roubles ($41,000)for violating personal data legislation…
Suing Big Tech to Stop Its Web Ad Dominance—Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Big Tech Censorship
“This is a country about ideas. People had differing ideas … They didn’t always agree on the ideas. We’d have … vigorous debates. But ideas were never cut out,” says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, concerned by Big Tech’s expanding control of information and censorship of conservative voices. Texas is one of many states suing…
How to Challenge Big Tech Censorship–Rep. Buck, Rep. Steube, Mercedes Schlapp, and Harrison Rogers
July 17, 2021
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From Trump’s recent class-action lawsuits to antitrust legislation, what are the different legal avenues currently in play to challenge Big Tech? And what can the average person do to deal with big tech censorship? At the CPAC conference in Texas, American Thought Leaders sat down with ACU Foundation Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp, Rep. Ken Buck…
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