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January 15, 2021

AOC says Zuckerberg, Facebook bear 'partial responsibility' for Capitol riots

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., assigned partial blame to Facebook for last week's riots and indicated Friday that Congress' response should focus on holding Big Tech accountable rather than ramping up domestic surveillance.

January 14, 2021

Facebook criticized by Dems, liberal watchdog for skirting Capitol riot blame

As Facebook tried to shift blame over the Capitol riot to Parler or other smaller platforms popular with conservatives, several Democrats and a liberal watchdog group slammed the tech giant for doing too little, too late to crack down on pro-Trump, radical groups organizing violence in Washington.

January 14, 2021

Does Facebook nuking 'Stop the Steal' posts make it harder to track riot organizers?

Social media giant Facebook said earlier this week that it will remove all content containing the phrase "stop the steal" in order to cut down on "content that could incite further violence."

January 14, 2021

Want to get away from Big Tech? Here’s how

The recent ban of Parler from Apple and Google’s app stores and the Amazon shutdown of the social media app might have you thinking about Big Tech’s power. Add to this news that the messaging service WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, is grabbing more of your personal data.

January 14, 2021

Hong Kong ISP blocks access to pro-democracy website under national security law

A Hong Kong internet service provider on Thursday said it had blocked access to a pro-democracy website to comply with the city’s national security law.

January 14, 2021

Jason Chaffetz: Democrats have leveraged pandemic, economic pain and civil unrest for political gain

Never let it be said that Democrats let the crises of the past 12 months go to waste. With the coronavirus pandemic, forced closures of large swaths of the economy and civil unrest, the left did what it always does in times of crisis: leverage disaster for political gain.

January 13, 2021

Vivek Ramaswamy & Jed Rubenfeld: Twitter and Facebook censorship is a free-speech violation

Conventional wisdom holds that technology companies are free to regulate content because they are private, and the First Amendment protects only against government censorship. That view is wrong: Google, Facebook and Twitter should be treated as state actors under existing legal doctrines.

January 12, 2021

Ron Paul baffled at being censored by Facebook: I am 'non-interventionist' and preach 'nonviolence'

Former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, a decades-long leader in the libertarian movement, responded Tuesday to being censored by Facebook, which rendered him unable to publish his regular "Liberty Report" video program.

January 12, 2021

Judge halts execution of only woman on federal death row

A judge has granted a stay in what was slated to be the U.S. government’s first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades — a Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother in Missouri, cut the baby from her womb and passed off the newborn as her own.

January 12, 2021

Ingraham: Too-powerful tech oligarchs silence GOP while giving full reign to China, radical Islamists

The uproar over Big Tech's crackdown on social media users like President Trump and upstart platforms like Parler has little to do with the First Amendment, Laura Ingraham told viewers Monday.