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France Announces Taxes on Big Tech, Trump Rushes in to White Knight for His Sworn Enemies
The U.S. government is already threatening to retaliate: On Wednesday, President Trump ordered a probe of the French tax. It’s a sign that another trade war like the one between the U.S. and China could be stirring – except that it’s with one of America’s allies, and in this case, it’s U.S. companies that are seen as the tax dodges.
The measure was approved by France’s Senate on Thursday....
Brits Abandon Facebook As Usage Plummets
Facebook activity among Britons has crashed by more than one third over the past 12 months, according to the analytics firm Mixpanel, first reported by The Daily Telegraph.
Since June 2018, several months after news of the Cambridge Analytica scandal was revealed, activity on Facebook’s mobile app in the UK dropped 38% through June 2019.
User clicks on web links or adverts inside the Facebook app...
Tommy Robinson found guilty of contempt of court, faces jail for social media broadcast
British EDL founder Tommy Robinson faces jail time after High Court judges determined him in contempt of court, because he filmed a bunch of Muslim child rapists outside of a courthouse and broadcasting the footage online, RT.com reports.
Lawyers representing Attorney General Geoffrey Cox, who requested to have Robinson jailed over the broadcasts, argued the activist’s “whole objective” was...
Twitter Declares It Will Censor Trump's Tweets Ahead of 2020 Election
Twitter has declared that it will limit the reach of President Trump’s tweets ahead of the 2020 election as campaigning amps up.
The social media platform, which has come under fire recently for silencing prominent conservative voices online, notes that it will begin using algorithms to “down-rank” tweets by politicians which ‘violate’ their rules.
The Washington Post reported that such...
Youtube to Label Criticism of Immigration “Hate Speech”
“Immigration status” has been declared a protected category on YouTube’s hate speech policy, effectively banning speech critical of illegal immigration, experts warn.
Even though the policy specifies YouTube will only remove content that promotes violence or hatred towards “individuals or groups” based on that attribute, conservatives are concerned the policy will be used to justify the...
CrossFit Dumps Facebook and Instagram, Slams Abuse of Power
Fitness company CrossFit has left Facebook after it deleted a popular group “without warning or explanation” in a move that could indicate mounting backlash against the social media giant over privacy concerns, not to mention censorship concerns as well.
Facebook’s deletion and reinstatement of a meal plan group with 1.65 million users demonstrated to CrossFit Inc. that Facebook was abusing...
Instagram attention-seeking Girl Destroys 200yo statue for LIKES, may get Jail instead
Along with facing severe backlash from outraged social media users, the Instagram-model-turned vandal has also reportedly been dropped from an advertising campaign for a Polish online bank.
Julia Slonska, an Instagram model from Poland, has landed in hot water instead of gaining the proverbial 15 minutes of fame after she defaced a 200-year-old sculpture in the Swiss Valley Park in Warsaw.
According...
Instagram cracks down on hashtags spreading "misinformation" about Vaccines
Instagram is cracking down on “misinformation” about vaccinations being spread across the photo sharing app by blocking hashtags that draw out “verifiably false” posts about the controversial subject.
Now the obvious question here before you continue reading this big pile of crap is: are the imbeciles working at Instagram doctors???
The people who post crap on Instagram aren’t...
Social media giants are digging their own grave as they mute some of the most important voices of our time
Yesterday was not a good day for free speech and democracy.
Paul Joseph Watson and Milo Yiannopoulos were censored, silenced and banned from Facebook and Instagram and Laura Loomer was removed from Instagram as well.
Earlier, Alex Jones, Tommy Robinson and others have been deplatformed in the same way.
The removal was well planned and mainstream media was tipped off in advance.
Brave, bold, important...
#BoycottChineseProducts trends on Indian social media after latest block by China
China has once again blocked a move to designate the leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) group behind the Kashmir bomb attack as a terrorist, sparking indignation and calls for a boycott on Indian social media.
Masood Azhar, who founded JeM in 1999, is currently believed to be the coordinator of the February 14 suicide bomb attack in Kashmir in which 40 Indian troops were killed.
A proposal was brought...
Emmanuel Macron wants to BAN Hate Speech Convicts from all Social Media for LIFE
Emmanuel Macron has suggested that anyone who has been convicted of ‘hate speech’ should lose access to social media platforms for life. As if there isn’t enough censorship already…..
The French President brought the online censorship idea up at the annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, stating that a new way to tackle online hate speech should...
Ann Coulter: Trump could destroy Twitter by moving to Gab yet he Doesn't
If this alone isn’t proof to you that Donald Trump was a fraud, a con-man scam artist New York liberal than I don’t know what is. Ann Coulter is right!
Trump complains all the time about the fake news media and social media which is banning, censoring, oppressing and deleting the accounts of white people for being “evil racist demon nazi monster space aliens from the pits of planet...
Instagram is Inducing Young White Girls to Suicide
A novelist who blames Instagram for the suicide of her daughter has demanded a crackdown on social media sites.
Nicola Harlow says 11-year-old Ursula killed herself after viewing ‘horrific and distressing’ images on the social network.
The accusations will heap fresh pressure on the internet giant, which is owned by Facebook. MPs and campaigners have accused it of dismal failures in policing the...
Muslims kill white man for fun in Nice France then post video on Social Media
A gang of Muslims have killed a white man on the streets of Nice for fun and they filmed themselves doing it, laughing about it, encouraging each other to take turns in kicking him.
The young Muslim migrants are heard shouting: “j’l’ai détruit!” – “I destroyed him!”
Then you see the grimace of a man lying motionless on a street in the old town of Nice. On...
US Justice Department: “We’ll Investigate Tech Giants for Stifling Social Media Free Speech”
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that he will meet with a number of State attorneys general this month to “discuss a growing concern” that social media tech companies may be “intentionally stifling” the free flow of ideas on their platforms.
In a statement issued right after executives from Facebook and Twitter finished testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the...