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Harper’s magazine recently posted a letter signed by over 150 leading authors, journalists, and public intellectuals calling for greater support for freedom of speech.
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The US Department of Justice has issued a wish list of reform laws aimed directly at the big Internet media giants.
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President Trump finally issued an Executive Order targeting viewpoint discrimination by Big Tech social media companies.
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Internet/Telecom
The Censoring Left: ‘Net Neutrality’ for Thee – Not for Me
by Seton Motley June 8, 2020Network Neutrality is a top-down, government-centric Internet policy – for which the Left has pushed for more than a decade.
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EconomicsGovernmentInternet/Telecom
“Surveillance Capitalism”: A Summary of Critics
by Darren Brady Nelson January 27, 2020Companies that allegedly practice “surveillance capitalism” have become seemingly inescapable in our modern economy, leading a host of critics to explain the many ways those like Facebook and Google threaten our lives and freedoms.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedInternet/TelecomLibertyPodcastPoliticsTaxes
In The Tank (ep190) – Red Scare? Social Media Censorship and Renewable Subsidies
by Donald Kendal May 10, 2019Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Jim Lakely are joined by Isaac Orr in episode #189 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Center of the American Experiment, the Foundation for Economic Education, The Heartland Institute, and the Institute for Energy Research.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEducationFeaturedPodcastPoliticsRegulationTaxes
In The Tank (ep188) – Facebook Censors Haskins, Warren’s College Debt Scam, and Booster Seats
by Donald Kendal April 26, 2019Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr in episode #188 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Heritage Foundation, The Heartland Institute, and more.
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GovernmentLibertyPolitics
Freedom Caucus’ Jim Jordan: Freedom Under Attack
by Nancy Thorner April 17, 2019Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan told a private group at Chicago’s Trump Tower this week that the current Democrat Party is the craziest he has ever experienced.
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Climate ChangeGovernment
Like Forests – Government Needs The Underbrush Removed
by Seton Motley November 20, 2018The awful California wildfires that have killed dozens of people and destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property – are absolutely atrocious. It is such an inconceivable loss.
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Some commentators and politicians have proposed regulating Facebook, Twitter, and Google as public utilities. To make sense of this proposal, let’s consider the economic role of public utilities.
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Internet/Telecom
FCC, Please Speed the Deployment of Broadband
by Bartlett Cleland September 27, 2018Yesterday the FCC held an open commission meeting
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google Execs’ Trump Meltdown Reminds: There’s No Such Thing As ‘Unbiased’
by Seton Motley September 18, 2018We have for years been chronicling the extreme anti-conservative bias of the massive Big Tech companies – Google, Facebook, Twitter and the like.
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EconomicsFeatured
Pro-Net Neutrality Big Tech – Is with Conservatives as Anti-Neutrality as You Can Get
by Seton Motley August 14, 2018Network Neutrality is absolutely awful policy. It is a huge government imposition on the entirety of the Internet. It has zero business being even considered – by any nation laying even the remotest claim to being a free market economy.