Big Tech Backlash - Page 68

March 5, 2021

Facebook faces 'systemic' probe into alleged racial discrimination in hiring practices: Report

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has classified an ongoing probe of alleged racial discrimination in Facebook’s hiring practices as “systemic,” according to a report on Friday.

March 3, 2021

Steve Hilton: Big business 'virtue signals' the 'easy and cheap things' while hurting US workers

An unsavory alliance of Big Business, immigration activists and left-wing politicians are hurting American workers and taxpayers, "Fox News Primetime" host Lawrence Jones and "The Next Revolution" host Steve Hilton agreed Wednesday.

March 2, 2021

'No social media accounts for terrorists': House GOP pushes to block sanctioned foreign leaders from platforms

EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans are proposing legislation that would expand U.S. sanctions law to prohibit social media companies from allowing foreign individuals or entities sanctioned for terrorism to use their platforms. 

February 27, 2021

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert on combating cancel culture, online censorship: 'We're not going away'

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., says she refuses to "bow" to cancel culture, which is a dominant theme at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

February 26, 2021

Ohio's GOP Senate hopeful Josh Mandel blasts cancel culture, takes aim at 'radical elitist' Silicon Valley

Former Ohio State Treasurer and GOP senate hopeful Josh Mandel blasted the "left-wing" media and called cancel culture and the social media censorship "enormous" problems.

February 26, 2021

Gaetz blasts Cuomo at CPAC: Establishment considers him 'a cross between King David and Tom Brady'

In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, one of the state's most prominent congressmen, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Pensacola slammed the Republican establishment and the apparent alliance between Big Tech, the mainstream media and major Democrats.

February 26, 2021

Alex Berenson on 'censorship', free speech: 'Times have changed and the NY Times has changed'

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson slammed the mainstream media and Big Tech for its continued endeavoring to censor and "deplatform" views it does not like or does not want to debate, during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla.

February 26, 2021

CPAC speaker Alex Berenson: What to know about former NY Times reporter, COVID-19 lockdown critic

Author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson will be among the featured speakers to give a talk at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla.

February 25, 2021

NYT writer Tim Wu appears to delete old tweets as name floated for Biden administration post

Timothy Wu, a Columbia University professor and New York Times contributing writer reportedly set to join the Biden administration’s National Economic Council, appeared this week to have deleted thousands of old tweets as another nominee faced scrutiny over their social media activity.

February 25, 2021

Fla. Rep. Fiona McFarland: Protecting privacy online – Florida taking this step to safeguard consumers

This week, I introduced a ground-breaking Consumer Data Privacy bill in the Florida House of Representatives that will put the ownership of personal data back into the hands of individual Floridiansr most