The apparently coordinated @twitter @facebook & @Google @parler_app suspensions, to be followed by a domestic terrorism law, at a vulnerable moment for our country, feel like the Patriot Act rushed out after 9/11.

I’ve seen how bans on “bad” speech play out around the world.🙊 https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1347755987864838147
When it strikes speech/speakers you hate, it feels great. It will also (increasingly) strike speakers exercising basic rights of free expression. @facebook has banned #Palestine events, @twitter blocked activists, & 27 states have passed anti- #BDS laws to penalize lawful conduct
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses
US: States Use Anti-Boycott Laws to Punish Responsible Businesses

https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses
Well said - who are we appointing to be the deciders of what are now public utilities of communication? https://twitter.com/toby31415/status/1347932896183656448
This is how it goes with censorship, my friends. https://mondoweiss.net/2021/01/cbc-still-reviewing-why-it-deleted-the-word-palestine/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet&amp=1
CBC still reviewing why it deleted the word ‘Palestine’ – Mondoweiss

Last summer’s fiasco at Canada’s national broadcaster, when the CBC censured the word “Palestine,” has brought continued focus to the debate over bias in North American media.

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/01/cbc-still-reviewing-why-it-deleted-the-word-palestine/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet&amp=1
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