Politics
censorship
media bias
THE CARE AND CLEANING OF THE TWITTER ACCOUNT
Vassar Bushmills The Grand Game Almost everyone has a opinion about Twitter and Facebook. Conservatives consider them capricious in the way they handle “political speech” on their sites, rewarding Leftist views while punishing flag-waving Love-America attitudes. Both are hostile to American-style democracy and values. But as long as the American political class, including Republicans, is [Read More]
Social Issues
Thinking out loud about clipping the wings of social media giants
Laura Loomer’s plight — banned from social media giant Twitter for accurately stating Muslim beliefs — made me think about a creative approach to lawfare. I think we can take it as a given at this blog that social media giants are staffed almost entirely by Progressives and that these [Read More]
Politics
Social media giants’ war on InfoWars the opening move to stifle dissent
Find here a collection of the Twitter-sphere’s best takes about the danger to our democracy from social media giants silencing Alex Jones and InfoWars. Before I go anywhere with this post, let me say that I am in no way, shape, or form an Alex Jones fan. I’ve never listened [Read More]
Nominations
Comedians : they don’t offend me; they just don’t make me laugh
SJWs flex their power by being “offended” when they hear comedians. I’m seldom offended by the content, but I’m always offended by the lack of humor. Last night, I had some down time (a short commodity today) and I watched a movie that came out in 2015, but is still [Read More]
Guns & 2nd Amendment
A Twitter Honey Pot of ‘Russian Bots to Trap Conservatives? #TwitterLockout
What are the odds that social media bias against Conservatives has elevated to the point that Twitter (and Facebook) used its algorithms to engineer a honey pot, minefield of alleged Russian bot(s) to ensnare Conservatives? What if bad actors among the alt-left are being paid to double as Russian bots, [Read More]
Propaganda
Deconstructing Twitter’s mass email re: Info on “Russian Influence” of campaigns
On Saturday morning, I received the following email from Twitter <twitter-legal@twitter.com> allegedly and as stated in their subject line regarding: “Information Regarding Russian Influence Campaigns on Twitter”. Below is a screenshot of the email header and the email itself which I uploaded to Google Drive followed by my autopsy, opinion [Read More]
Guns & 2nd Amendment
Facebook removes small business’ ads because shop sells guns
Facebook is now censoring businesses that have Facebook pages who advertise fail to meet FB’s politically correct stance are not in line with FB’s Marxist ideology, as in the case of the Second Amendment. Since Facebook is always pushing, correction nagging page owners to “promote” a post and their business [Read More]
National Security
Robert Spencer at David Horowitz Freedom Center Discusses War on Freedom of Speech
Last week, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch spoke at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, subject of which is the Islamization of America and the war on freedom of speech. See Spencer’s speech below as posted on Vimeo. You can read the transcript here (excerpt below) courtesy of Front Page Magazine. [Read More]
Wall of Shame
YouTube Censors Diamond and Silk.
YouTube in the latest of its faux attempts to “combat terrorist content on YouTube,” dog whistle for non-Progressive content has declared war on Donald Trump supporters, Lynnette Hardway and Rochelle Richardson aka Diamond and Silk. In their quest to rein in what YouTube, according to its blog* deems “violent [Read More]
Propaganda
Heil, Google! A round-up of interesting takes on a fascist corporate culture
Google’s promise was that it would allow an unfettered platform for free speech and thought. Its college-grad employees, though, made it a fascism farm. I stopped using Google’s search engine years ago, although I’m still chained to Gmail. I was one of the first Gmail users back when it was [Read More]
Education
Your Gutless Appeaser of the Day
So, a student wrote an op-ed about Gay marriage that offended some overly sensitive types that think they have a right not to ever be offended. And, of course, the editor-in-chief Celina Oseguera took the path of appeasement and surrendered to the grievance mongers As a result of the unrelenting [Read More]
Education
A microcosm of the maddening mix of Progressive hate, ignorance, and nonsense at an American college
Despite a small spark of rationality, Macalester College’s weekly paper displays the Progressive hate, ignorance, and nonsense at an American college. Knowing my passion for free speech, someone sent me a small sign of hope: a link to a student-written opinion piece from the weekly student newspaper at Macalester University [Read More]
PC-Silliness
Is Twitter censorship Constitutional?
It is no secret that Twitter (Facebook AND Google) has been censoring Conservatives, Independents, and Libertarians under the guise that they are private entities and have the right to decide who can use their sites and who cannot. The extent of Twitter and Facebook’s purging of non-Progressives are sending up [Read More]
Politics
Bookworm Beat 12/27/16 — the “dregs of the year” edition
Weird year at the Bookworm Room and beyond. My year was bookended by the deaths of my mother and my mentor. Out in the bigger world, people are coping with the deaths of icons and, if they’re Progressives, the collapse of their fantasy political world. To me, there are really [Read More]
PC-Silliness
Shakespeare portrait removed to promote diversity
Because exclusion is the new inclusion Students at the University of Pennsylvania have removed a portrait of Shakespeare from its Fisher-Bennett Hall and have replaced it with a picture of a black lesbian poet Audre Lorde in the name of “diversity.” The most obvious question is this. Why not add [Read More]
Media Bias
How to respond to Facebook’s plan to label “fake news”
Facebook just announced that it will start cracking down on what it calls “fake news.” We know what that means: It will block anything that does not toe the Democrat party line. To this end, it’s teaming with such hard-Left luminaries as Snopes, the Associated Press, and ABC to identify [Read More]
Hillary Clinton
Crooked Hillary Still Bitter Blames “Fake News” for Loss
Hillary Clinton during Harry Reid’s send off Thursday in the U. S. Senate, issued a clarion call for an all-out war against “fake news.” Still refusing to take responsibility for role in her failure to break through the glass ceiling, Clinton insisted that “This is not about politics or partisanship [Read More]
Donald Trump
After YouTube Cut Right Side Broadcasting’s Livestream of Trump Rallies, THEY’RE BACK!
UPDATE: They’re back! RSBN is back LIVE: https://t.co/FcVfxlB23F — RSBN TV (@RSBNetwork) November 3, 2016 ORIGINAL POST: YouTube, the almighty censor of non-Progressive content is up to its dirty tricks again. This time, the anti-free speech police has restricted Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN)’s live stream and chat of Donald [Read More]
Media Bias
Huffington Post Deletes Post Telling Young Women to Cover Up at Football Games
The Huffington Post this morning deleted an post written by contributor Rebecca Walden entitled, “Young ladies of the SEC, cover it up!” in which Walden admonished SEC’s female college students for their choice of wearing apparel, rather lack thereof during last week’s Alabama-USC game at AT&T Stadium. [Score No. 1 [Read More]