The best way to fight social media censorship is to promote model state legislation all across the country that gives users the right to sue when a tech platform engages in discrimination, John Hinderaker, president of Minnesota’s Center for the American Experiment, told The Epoch Times in an exclusive interview. In a July 30 column…
Fight Social Media Censorship by Suing for Discrimination, Think Tank Head Urges
Trump v. Twitter, Part 1: How Social Media Censorship Abuses Federal Law
Commentary This is the first in a three part series explaining legal and constitutional issues in former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter. This installment focuses on how social media censorship abuses federal law. Trump’s lawsuit, filed on July 7, 2021, alleges that Twitter abridged Trump’s First Amendment free speech rights by censoring his tweets…
Appeals Court Agrees to Review Decision on Big Tech’s Section 230 Immunity
A little-watched civil rights case that threatens Silicon Valley’s Section 230 immunity took a huge step forward Friday as an appeals court that rarely does so agreed to review a lower court’s decision. The U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit in New York agreed to review a lower court’s ruling that Section 230 of…
Live Q&A: Trump Sues Social Networks Over Censorship; Biden Launching Door-to-Door Vaccine Campaign
Donald Trump announced a major class-action lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook, and Google over censorship, and the case is expected to address the issue of Section 230 legal protections for the social networking companies. And in other news, Joe Biden has announced a program for door-to-door visits to encourage Americans to get vaccinated. In this live…
Big Tech Only Has Itself to Blame for Rethinking of Antitrust
June 18, 2021
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Commentary There are few, if any, political issues that now generate the breadth and intensity of bipartisan backlash as does the rise of Big Tech. During Donald Trump’s presidency, the major parties largely diverged on their specific grievances against the woke Silicon Valley monopolists who serve as gatekeepers for America’s 21st-century public square. Republicans, by…
Time to Take Action: Three Proposals Regarding Free Speech, the Media, and Washington, D.C.
There is a lot of chatter among conservatives (well, among some conservatives) about finally dispensing with chatter and moving on to action. We’ve had a lot of diagnosis. Where’s the treatment? As a first offering in this big project, I’d like to propose three courses of action. None is original. This pleases me. Novelty in…
WSJ Editorial Board Suggests Revising Section 230 Protections for Big Tech
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board came out this week to express support for curtailing broad legal protections for technology companies after one of the newspaper’s opinion articles was fact-checked by Facebook. “We’ve been leery of proposals in Congress to modify Section 230 protections that shield internet platforms from liability. But social-media giants are…
Democrats’ New Big Tech Reform Agenda: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Commentary Congressional Democrats recently initiated discussions with the Biden administration on cracking down on Big Tech’s abuses of fair marketplaces and the American people. While these leaders’ attention to this crucial public policy matter is noted and appreciated, the policy prescriptions they seek to impose are not all peaches and cream. With the balance of power equally…
Texas Working on Bill to Prevent Big Tech Censorship Following Florida’s Footsteps
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said on Sunday that he was working on a bill with legislators in his state to prevent big tech companies taking action to moderate user content based on their political viewpoint. “We are working with Sen. [Bryan] Hughes on legislation to prevent social media providers like Facebook & Twitter from cancelling…
Democrats Seek to Force Big Tech to Police Content More Tightly in Section 230 Reform Bill
Democrat lawmakers have introduced a bill to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, seeking to make big tech companies more accountable and force them to police their content more stringently. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Friday introduced the Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism and Consumer Harms…
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