Speech
Writer and actor Ben Stein suspended from YouTube for COVID questions
Suspended for one week for what he said was going “against the prevailing wisdom of the experts on Covid.”
Judge orders blogger to hand over devices in lawsuit over blog comments
Seemingly ignoring Section 230 and the First Amendment.
Members
Platforms censored posts saying Biden could introduce federal vaccine mandate as CDC’s own fact check denied it
The censored have since been vindicated.
Life is Strange: True Colors is review bombed and pulled in China after discovery of Tibetan flag in the game
Chinese authorities consider the flag a symbol of separatism.
Sydney doctor who criticized medical censorship online is suspended from practicing medicine
Dr. Paul Oosterhuis was accused of spreading misinformation.
Rep. Adam Schiff demands more data on Amazon’s policing of “misinformation” in books
Calls for more censorship.
Surfshark pulls sponsorship of news outlet over tweet
Surfshark claimed that media freedom is one of its “core values” as it canceled the sponsorship.
Groups push back against Biden’s plan to grant IRS access to your bank account (and PayPal) transaction data
The proposals could be ruled unconstitutional.