Censorship
April 21, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud for paying white supremacist groups $3M to ‘stoke racial hatred’ It was always a hoax. “American Nazis,” “white surpremacists,” “hate groups” were all a product of the left in an effort to suppress the voices of ordinary Americans. America doesn’t naturally produce enough (or any) hate for the fundraising demands of left-wing activist groups, so they have
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May 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Spectator has published Penn Law Professor Amy Wax’s anatomy of the suppression of dissent in higher education under the ideology of wokeism and other superstitions of the age. Perhaps I should refer to her as “the heretical Amy Wax.” Surely this cannot stand: Here I will focus on higher education, and one important aspect of its debasement: the growing practice of censoring and punishing free expression. Why has this
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February 18, 2025 — Scott Johnson
John’s post on the enthusiastic 60 Minutes segment supporting censorship in Germany put me in mind of Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes segment on President Trump in advance of the 2020 presidential election. Stahl reported in her narration: “As we moved from subject to subject, our conversation grew more tense. President Trump brought up what he calls the unfairness of the fake media. Most prominently: a lack of coverage of his
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February 13, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday Matt Taibbi gave his opening statement at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the “censorship-industrial complex.” He posted the text of his remarks here (with links) at his Racket News site and added a brief note on the hearing as well. I have posted video below. This is the text. * * * * * Two years ago, when Michael [Shellenberger] and I first testified before your Weaponization of
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December 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
This past month FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr took up the work of NewsGuard in a letter to the chief executive officers of Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Meta (Facebook), and Apple. I learned of the existence of the letter in Carr’s NewsNation interview with Chris Cuomo posted here by RCP. Carr is President Trump’s pick to chair the FCC. In the interview with Cuomo he states that he will seek to “smash
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October 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward
You may have followed the news that California’s Governor Gavin Gruesome sought and achieved a statute, AB 2329, outlawing AI-generated “deep fake” political communications ahead of elections. This statute is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, and wouldn’t survive the first five minutes of a Supreme Court oral argument. But it takes time (and a lot of money) to get a case all the way up to the Supreme
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September 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
I posted this column by Professor Sean McMeekin over the weekend. Now that it has rotated off our home page, I am giving it one more spin in case you missed it. Sean McMeekin is Francis Flournoy Professor of European History at Bard College and the author of essential books including The Red Millionaire: Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West, 1917-1940 (2004), The Russian Revolution: A New History
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August 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I compiled the New York Post’s coverage of the Zuckerberg letter. In my post I focused on Facebook’s suppression of the New York Post’s coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. Speaking for myself, I quoted Zuckerberg’s statement that Facebook sent “the Post story to fact-checkers for review[.]” I commented that every element of the Post’s coverage was accurate and authenticated. I added
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August 28, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to Chairman Jim Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee on Facebook’s censorhip in cooperation with government authorities is a document of multifaceted interest. It warrants close examination. Indeed, close reading is required. See the text of the letter below. Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things: 1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. Big win
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August 24, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The contradictions that undermine civil society seem to have reached a perilous stage in Great Britain. Censorship follows in its wake. Britain’s Spiked observes the phenomenon in this note: “The UK has become a posterboy for the perils of censorship. In the wake of the recent race riots, the British state has set about arresting and jailing not just the rioters, but also those who posted hateful memes or spread
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August 12, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Tonight Elon Musk is doing a live event with Donald Trump, and the censors of the left are in a panic. The European Union this morning sent the following letter to Musk, which, once you pierce through the bureaucratic gobbledygook, essentially says “You must bow down to our censorship!” (Click to embiggen.) Time to start exporting tar and feathers to Brussels.
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July 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
NewsGuard has been in the news lately. It is a left-wing anti-“misinformation” operation that purports to rate web sites according to objective criteria. But of course, far from being objective, its criteria are those of the Left. Thus, NewsGuard has attacked Prager U, which has fought back. And NewsGuard has recently gone after legal commentator Jonathan Turley, who also has pushed back. The Left’s censorship operation has been in the
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June 10, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We’ve often cited the work of Roger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado, whose science Substack, The Honest Broker, is essential reading. What you should know about Roger (whom I know quite well) is that he is a centrist-liberal Democrat, believes climate change is a genuine future risk, and supports a carbon tax and other measures to fight it. But he also calls bull—- on a lot of climate
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May 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
This past Tuesday Dr. Jay Bhattacharya received one of the 20th anniversary Bradley Prizes. Samuel Gregg and William B. Allen were the other recipients. See the Bradley Foundation announcement and related links here. The Bradley Foundation has posted the announcement of Dr. Bhattacharya’s award here and the text of his remarks on the occasion here. I have posted the video of Dr.Bhattacharya’s remarks below. The speech takes up themes we
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April 18, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The practice of doxxing is “to publicly identify or publish private information about (someone) especially as a form of punishment or revenge.” In 2011, for example, online hackers “claimed responsibility for posting personal information of more than 40 officers, including their home addresses, campaign contributions, property records, and names of family members after they claimed the LAPD oppressed them by shutting down the Occupy L.A. Movement.” California’s doxxing laws, notes
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March 31, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“When Front Page Magazine applied to join Google’s AdSense advertising program we were turned down,” notes Daniel Greenfield of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. “Since Google, like other Big Tech monopolies, has censored and deplatformed us in the past, we weren’t too shocked. But this time, Google told us why we had been banned.” The ban was due to this writer’s “Remember the San Bernardino Fourteen,” from December 3, 2021.
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March 29, 2024 — Scott Johnson
RealClearPolitics has posted the video (below) of Dave Rubin’s panel session earlier this month with the winners of the first RealClearPolitics Samizdat Prize — Twitter Files reporter Matt Taibbi, Great Barrington Declaration co-author Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and New York Post reporter and Laptop From Hell author Miranda Devine. RCP has also posted transcribed excerpts along with the video here. It’s hard to keep up with the news of the day,
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