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.
Facebook bans ads discouraging coronavirus vaccines
The platform has also partnered with the WHO to start telling people to get vaccinated.
MembersTactics that are used to silence online speech
? Even when content isn’t forcibly removed, there are many other means through which viewpoints and ideas can be censored.
Pizza shop cancels Senate candidate Lauren Witzke’s local meet and greet after online pressure campaign
Witzke accused the shop of caving to a mob after a harassment campaign.
Election Year Knockout game unable to advertise due to Big Tech’s “political” ads block
The game’s promotion has stalled at a crucial time.
Twitter to start directing users to “credible” information when they attempt to retweet “misleading” information
Twitter will decide what’s credible and what’s not.
YouTube tests new warning on “potentially offensive” comments
Another attack on the comments section.
Twitter hides all search results for the “Obamagate” hashtag
Twitter suppresses one of the week’s top stories.
Facebook is now monitoring spikes in “hate speech” in near-real time
Once a spike is detected, it can also be reviewed and censored almost instantly.
Facebook threatens to delete Steven Crowder’s page
His page with over three million followers could be wiped out.
UK to trial world’s first coronavirus passport technology
COVID passports used to be dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
Alleged owner of popular QAnon site QMap fired after fact-checker contacted his employer
QMap was shut down shortly after the fact-checker published an investigation into the alleged owner.
Facebook’s arbitrary QAnon ban is an unchecked license to censor
Lawyers, journalists, and authors questioned the tech giant for the sudden sweeping ban.