From Helen Thomas to Today: Questioning Authority and Exposing Hypocrisy
By: Joshua Scheer, SP Columnist I woke up this morning to a tweet from Drop Site News that inspired me to post, but I had no idea what to write.…
Say WHAT, Hillary!! Clinton Blames ‘Fake’ Social Media for Young People Supporting Palestine
By: Joshua Scheer I just can’t. I have no more energy for wannabe war criminals, but this has to be posted and reshared. My favorite neocon and generally evil person,…
Always Watching: How ICE’s Plan To Monitor Social Media 24/7 Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation
ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.
Leaked Emails Expose ‘Collaborative Efforts’ Between Israeli Govt. and Center for Countering Digital Hate
Emails obtained by The Grayzone reveal how leading “anti-hate” campaigner Imran Ahmed collaborated with Israeli embassy officials to censor pro-Palestine social media accounts — and courted them for donations to…
In These Five Social Media Speech Cases, Supreme Court Set Foundational Rules for the Future
By David Greene / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) The U.S. Supreme Court addressed government’s various roles with respect to speech on social media in five cases reviewed in its recently…
US Supreme Court Does Not Go Far Enough in Determining When Government Officials Are Barred from Censoring Critics on Social Media
By Sophia Cope and David Greene / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) After several years of litigation across the federal appellate courts, the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous opinion has…
US TikTok Ban Aims to Weaken China & Protect Big Tech Monopolies
The US government’s plan to either ban TikTok or force owner ByteDance to sell it to a (US) company is part of Washington’s economic war on China, and an attempt…
Glenn Greenwald: Trump Rejects Biden-Endorsed TikTok Ban
Is the U.S. government actually pursuing the banishment of TikTok to curb the alleged control of the Chinese government? Or is it simply the latest national security state power grab?
Supreme Court to Consider Giving First Amendment Protections to Social Media Posts
By Lynn Greenky, Syracuse University / The Conversation The First Amendment does not protect messages posted on social media platforms. The companies that own the platforms can – and do…
Patrick Lawrence: Deeper Into Depravity
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Diego Ramos, ScheerPost’s managing editor, forwarded me a video clip last week he thought I ought to see. Sending it under the subject…
Federal Judge Rules Against Biden Admin Attack on Free Speech
The temporary injunction bars government agencies from suppressing free speech.
What Reddit Got Wrong
By Rory Mir / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s…
Chris Hedges: The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi
Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.
Your Messaging Service Should Not Be a DEA Informant
The bill, named the Cooper Davis Act, is likely to result in a host of inaccurate reports and in companies sweeping up innocent conversations, including discussions about past drug use…
Is TikTok a US Deep State Front?
Alan MacLeod’s reporting on the influx of former government employees at TikTok, Meta, Twitter and other social media companies helps define the scope of the U.S. censorship regime.