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January 27th, 2021
A Vaster Climate Plan Than Obama
President Joe Biden is launching his sweeping assault on climate change with a much larger army of allies than Barack Obama had 12 years ago — a coalition that ranges from labor unions, anti-fracking activists and racial justice advocates to leaders of Wall Street, the auto industry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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January 27th, 2021
Tech Supremacy
‘To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,’ George Orwell famously observed.
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January 26th, 2021
Big Tech Crackdown
The double standard is obvious, but even that is almost beside the point. Big Tech’s actions should chill anyone who values independent thought.
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January 15th, 2021
Is PAYGO Still a Thing?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has begun discussing the Democrats’ spending priorities post Jan. 20, when they will control both the House and Senate and the White House. They plan to ramp up federal spending—a lot.
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January 15th, 2021
How to Resist Big Tech
You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to realize that Big Tech companies have been slowly tightening the digital noose around conservative and libertarian speech for years.
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January 13th, 2021
Pushback Against Big Tech
If there’s one thing Americans love, it is freedom. And if there is one thing Americans are known for, it is being a freedom-loving, independent people. That’s why it is no surprise that some world leaders are aghast that Big Tech could ban for life the President of the United States. This is the encroaching tyranny of Big Tech. It...
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January 13th, 2021
How Silicon Valley Destroyed Parler
Critics of Silicon Valley censorship for years heard the same refrain: tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are private corporations and can host or ban whoever they want. If you don’t like what they are doing, the solution is not to complain or to regulate them. Instead, go create your own social media platform that operates the way you...
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January 13th, 2021
Big Tech Takes Out Parler
Perhaps the best source I can point to on what Big Broth — I mean, Big Tech, is doing to conservatives is, ironically, the non-conservative Glenn Greenwald, who has had to “go independent” because of his straightforwardness and is now on Substack.com.
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January 13th, 2021
Twitter Irony
The Twitter Public Policy division is getting roasted on its own website after ironically and hypocritically tweeting about the importance of access to free expression and a free internet.
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January 13th, 2021
Free Speech Being Tested
Twitter and Facebook have permanently banned President Trump from their social platforms. Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell have also been permanently banned as Twitter announceda purge of “accounts dedicated to sharing content related to the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory.”
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