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In Face of Big Tech Censorship, Free Speech Alternatives Emerge Online

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Big Tech actors like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube feel increasingly comfortable banning conservative voices from their platforms. But as Big Tech is willing to censor conservatives for their speech, other platforms devoted to free expression are starting to fill the gap. The director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Technology Policy, Lora Ries, contends that as long as these big platforms continue to censor dissent, alternative platforms will crop up to try to serve as alternatives. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) “The new CEO…

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Thiel, Silicon Valley and the Rise of Tech Neo-Reaction

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<p>Here are a few links to a topic I continue to think more and more about. On the surface it&#8217;s Peter Thiel, about whom more in a moment. But beyond Thiel, there&#8217;s a broader reality. In the first years of the century we learned to see Tech as a rising business and political powerhouse that was broadly liberal, at least by the standards of Big Business. &#8216;Liberal&#8217; was probably never quite right &#8211; but at least broadly cosmopolitan in its social values and culture. It was young, comparatively diverse, based…

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Republicans use congressional hearing to berate tech CEOs and claim Trump is ‘censored’ – The Guardian

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Republicans use congressional hearing to berate tech CEOs and claim Trump is ‘censored’  The Guardian Facebook, Google, Twitter CEOs clash with Congress in pre-election showdown  The Washington Post Social media CEOs get earful on bias from US Congress  The News International Big Tech CEO Senate hearing ends with little discussion on how to fix companies’ liability shield  CNBC US Congress grills Twitter, Facebook, Google CEOs – Sentinelassam  The Sentinel Assam View Full Coverage on Google News “us congress” – Google News

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