Biden administration
Over 600 Google employees challenge being forced to upload their vaccination status to a central database
A relatively small number of employees are pushing back.
YouTube censors Senator Ron Johnson (again)
Silencing lawmakers.
White House commits to tackling “harms” caused by Big Tech platforms
Censorship commitments.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defends Biden administration’s plan to surveil Americans’ bank accounts
Yellen doesn’t seem to see a privacy issue.
Hospitals struggle with staff shortages after vaccine passport mandates
Forcing staff to show vaccine passports has reduced the number of staff by up to 20% in some US hospitals.
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.
Biden Administration ordered abandoned weapons information to be removed from federal websites
Accused of covering the tracks.
Congressman Richard Hudson criticizes Facebook suppressing posts about military equipment lost to Taliban
Facebook eventually backtracked.
Korea is on the verge of passing legislation to force Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores
Other countries want to do the same.
New Twitter feature lets users report “misinformation”
Reporting opinions you think are wrong. What could go wrong?
Florida veteran sues Facebook for First Amendment violation, alleging censorship collusion with Biden administration
Richard Rogalinski was censored by Facebook several times.
White House meets with Facebook about “misinformation,” warned that FB would be the “No. 1” pandemic story
The collusion continues, a new report suggests.