Bill C-372 seeks penalties up to $1,000,000 and two years in prison for promoting fossil fuels as anything less than an existential threat to humanity. Just when you thought Canada couldn’t get any more Stalinist, an MP from the country’s far-left NDP party is calling for any speech that “promotes fossil fuels” – even truthful statements like comparing the relative emissions of natural gas... 

Elon Musk is said to have told lenders he’ll slash executive pay at Twitter and monetize tweets to make the firm more profitable before buying it for $44 billion. Musk is said to have made the vow to banks before securing funding to buy the firm, with the deal announced Monday. Currently, Twitter spends about $2.9 million in cash and stock awards to board members, according to a filing. But... 

A group of leading tech companies has joined over 100 Google critics in calling on the EU to take tougher antitrust action against the company, saying the tech company unfairly boosts its own services on the site’s web searches. 165 critics, including Yelp, Expedia, and Trivago, have accused Google of promoting its own services above others in search results, demanding immediate action to halt this.... 

Independent and alternative voices have long complained of being demonetized or unfairly targeted for analysis and commentary falling outside of accepted ‘groupthink’. Maybe they should also investigate the crooks and thieves at Newsmax. In what would be a monumental move — and we might ad good for independent media breaking the shackles of the mainstream’s ongoing attempts to police content... 

Russia might still have a reputation as a nation of hard drinkers, but a report by the World Health Organization showed alcohol consumption has dropped by 43 per cent since 2003. The WHO put the decrease down to a raft of measures brought in under sport-loving President Vladimir Putin, including restrictions on alcohol sales and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. ‘The Russian Federation has... 

The move by Google to expunge RT from its premium advertising service without any prior notice is “absolutely unacceptable” but will not have an adverse effect on the channel’s outreach or its profits, RT Deputy Editor-in-Chief Kirill Karnovich-Valua said. RT, with millions of subscribers across its channels, has for years been ahead of the competition as the most viewed TV news network on YouTube,... 

YouTube will implement a new policy where content can be hidden & demonetized even if it isn’t in violation of their rules but merely flagged. And what are the standards? Violence, depiction of terrorism or extremism? No. Merely “controversial religious” or “supremacist” content as judged by organizations with a political bias. “Controversial religious” will likely include content... 

Have you ever seen how much RNC chairman Reince Priebus likes to brag how much he supports Donald Trump and how much hes coordinating with Donald Trump’s campaign? Well if he supports him that much then where’s the ads?? With so much stacked against him, can Donald Trump pull off a miracle and actually win this election? Right at this moment, things are looking quite grim for the Trump... 

Earlier this month, YouTube, the behemoth video-sharing website was accused of censoring users. Claiming some of their videos had been barred from making money through the company’s ad services, YouTube hosts like Philip DeFranco spoke out against the policy, claiming over “a dozen of his videos had been flagged as inappropriate for advertising, including one dinged for ‘graphic content or excessive... 

Russia may ban the advertising of junk food during children’s shows aired on national TV or radio. The Parliament is considering new amendments to the Advertising Law which would limit marketing of foods containing high amounts of fat, salt and sugar. A relative new comer to Russian politics, young MP Alena Arshinova, is trying to change the face of the nation by banning fast food commercials from... 

The newly signed amendments to the law on healthcare introduce a ban on the abortion advertising, and make the illegal practicing of folk medicine a misdemeanor. The law was signed by President Vladimir Putin and published on the official website on Monday. Russia’s Federal Law on Advertising now includes the ban on advertising abortions and several restrictions concerning the advertising of traditional... 

There is a sense of national pride when a world-wide innovation is created in the U.S. Advertising that emphasizes a product is “Made in America” plays to that national pride, and it seems to have results. Three in five Americans (61%) say they are more likely to purchase something when the ad touts it is “Made in America” and only 3% say they are less likely to buy it. Just...