Culture
Washington Post’s Dave Weigel is suspended for joke retweet
“Taylor Lorenz can literally lie and violate basic standards and gets no punishment. Felicia can leak her bosses emails… violate company policy and harass her coworkers and is good to go. Dave Weigel shitposts and he’s suspended without pay for a month.” – Saagar Enjeti
Grad student sues SIUE after college suppressed her speech
Maggie DeJong shared her beliefs on social media, in private messages, and more.
New Zealand PM uses Harvard acceptance speech to complain about online “disinformation”
Jacinda Ardern is a proponent of Big Tech platform censorship.
Mainstream media lashes out at independent creator coverage of Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial
Not happy about losing their gatekeeping power.
Georgetown drops investigation into legal scholar over tweet
An investigation that shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
UK communications regulator tells tech platforms to protect women from “potential harms”
Yet, the regulator admits that these so-called “potential harms” may not cause any actual harm.
Google backtracks on censorship of conservative kid’s book ads
The ads account was suspended.
Suspended Disinformation Board chief says it could have helped reduce mass shootings
Like Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y.