Online Censorship

Conservatives should create alternative communications systems to provide access for everyone who disagrees with the Left.

America increasingly seems to be on a path to self-destruction.

The power of these companies to control public discourse is a clear and present danger to everyone who values free speech.

This is not a theoretical debate in free speech, but rather a demand for an equal standard for those who use Twitter to incite violence.

The media will predictably declare the world safe again on January 20.

The ultimate outcome of the fight for internet freedom is hardly a foregone conclusion.

Democrats would be wise to ensure Trump does not attain sainthood status.

Big Tech is the ruling class's means by which to control the acceptability, or lack thereof, of speech itself.

The most important question to be asked about the next four years is whether Big Tech will not only have a loud voice in Washington, but also ensure that its power continues to grow.

The media's day of reckoning is coming. This election will serve as the tipping point when media outlets finally give way to a new frontier. The Wild West of new media is upon us.

Will Chamberlain of the Internet Accountability Project debates Matthew Feeney of the Cato Institute.

Critics of Big Tech are keen to put Section 230 in their crosshairs, when the more likely target of their proposals would be the First Amendment itself.

Social media execs recognize the Left's willingness to punish political enemies. As political polarization grows, it is naive to think this willingness can remain confined to one side.

Something is wrong, and it looks like there is finally momentum to use legislation to bring these arrogant tech behemoths to heel.

The social media oligopolies appear to believe they can act with impunity. The public and now government backlash may end up destroying their business models, and they will have no one but themselves to blame.

Big Tech giants have allowed their tremendous power to go to their heads. Policymakers need to hold them in line.

President Trump's new executive order on Big Tech companies ought to serve as a wakeup call.

Coronavirus has underscored how Big Tech imbues our lives—and it isn't all pretty.

Weibo's move has been perceived as a crackdown on ideas that do not fall in line with socialism.

Political strategies are often as invisible as they are invasive.

"I have a Twitter account and I think it is a suitable tool for public diplomacy, connecting to people around the globe and voicing our ideas."

Russia's internet watchdog has blocked Reddit, Pornhub and Wikipedia in the past, as well as the websites of Putin's critics.

The Russian government's requests to remove online content from Google peaked in 2016, dwarfing the rest of the world.

The Ethiopian government has pulled internet access multiple times in recent years. This time, fears of exam leaks might be behind it.

If the situation were reversed, editors would be outraged.

Facebook relied on news values and editorial judgment practiced in traditional newspapers and television channels.

Republican Senator John Thune wants answers from Mark Zuckerberg on the allegations of Facebook's political bias.

A former Facebook employee, however, tells Newsweek there was no policy to suppress conservative news.

The social network granted more than 55,000 content restrictions following government requests, largely related to a photo from inside the Bataclan music venue.

He has a heavy American accent, but Mandarin speakers were nonetheless impressed.