Tom Parker
Tom Parker is a founder and lead editor for Reclaim The Net and provides news and analysis on how we can promote free speech, stop censorship, and protect our personal data online.
Senate Candidate Herschel Walker proposes social media monitoring
Another politician uses a mass shooting to push for increased surveillance.
Sweden’s “Psychological Defence Agency” issues warning about memes that “spread misleading information”
Part of a campaign titled “Laughter that can hurt.”
Trans pressure groups push cancel campaign against Netflix and Ricky Gervais over jokes
A media watchdog is claiming his comedy special incites “hate or violence.”
YouTube CEO assures World Economic Forum she’ll continue to boost “trusted” sources
Mainstream media outlets get boosted ahead of the independent creators and journalists.
YouTube CEO at World Economic Forum: “There’ll always be work that we have to do” to censor “misinformation”
A commitment to constant censorship.
US Postal Service wants to provide digital ID and collect more biometric data
It envisions this digital ID being used in the public and private sector.
Twitter bans comedian Abi Roberts
Another comedian censored from the platform.
World Health Organization pandemic treaty: A fresh push for vaccine passports, global surveillance, and more
The unelected international health agency is on the verge of being granted sweeping new powers.
DHS pauses its “Disinformation Governance Board”
Its future is now uncertain.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul says “hate speech” is not protected speech
Despite Hochul’s claims, so-called “hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment.
NYT questions “whether the ability to livestream should be so easily accessible” after Buffalo shooting
The Times also questioned whether social media sites “have a responsibility to rein in hateful and violent content.”
Trump starts hiring for Netflix competitor, TMTG+
The service says it will offer “broad-based entertainment rooted in free speech.”