Censorship vs. Suppression

via Eric Peters: Libertarians – me included – have wrestled long and hard with this one: Is it censorship when private entities do it? No – not in a legal sense. Because these private entities do not have the power to forbid publication, per se. But …

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Facebook’s Secret Censorship Manual Exposed as Platform Takes Down Video About Israel Terrorizing Palestinians

via commondreams: Journalist Rania Khalek, whose video was restored after public outcry, says the ability of social media giants “to disappear content as they please” is “creepy and alarming and should be loudly opposed.” After the New York Times on Thursday published an exposé of Facebook‘s …

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FACTS ARE RACIST: ThinkProgress Accuses Facebook of Censorship After Conservative Factchecker Correctly Points Out an Error. “‘Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade last week.’ Except he didn’t.”

via reason: Ian Millhiser, justice editor at ThinkProgress, is upset that The Weekly Standard—a right-of-center magazine whose editors have been granted the power to formally factcheck articles for Facebook—recently labelled one of his articles “false.” But the claim made by the article’s headline—”Brett Kavanaugh …

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Segregation by Censorship

by Cinderella Broom In his recent FrontPage Mag article, “Fighting Political Segregation with a Digital First Amendment,” Daniel Greenfield argues in favor of passing legislation to protect free speech specifically on the Internet. Using an argument that even a radical liberal could love, he compares …

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