social media
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Corporate Tax Cronyism: Small Business Pays – Big Business (Esp. Big Tech) Doesn’t
by Seton Motley October 20, 2021Big Tech continues to be allowed to gain influence at no cost, while small businesses take the lion’s share of the tax burden.
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Internet/Telecom
Big Tech Censorship Is an Assault on Individual Liberty
by James Taylor September 7, 2021Today, a small number of giant corporations have secured monopoly power over the primary means by which Americans exercise their free-speech rights. It’s time for change.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedLibertyMediaPodcastPoliticsTaxes
In The Tank (ep195) – “Luxury Communism,” News in the Digital Age, Deepfakes
by Donald Kendal June 14, 2019Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr and Jim Lakely in episode #195 of the In The Tank Podcast. Featured in today’s podcast is work from The Heartland Institute, the RAND Corporation, Reason Foundation, and the Brookings Institution.
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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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FeaturedGovernmentInternet/TelecomPodcastPolitics
New Documentary, ‘The Creepy Line,’ Shows Google, Facebook Pose Real Threat to Democracy
by Nancy Thorner November 26, 2018Google and Facebook cross the privacy line and endanger American freedoms, two filmmakers told a capacity audience in Heartland Institute’s Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedInternet/TelecomLegal AffairsMediaPodcastPolitics
In The Tank (ep163) – Twitter Bans The Gay Patriot
by Donald Kendal October 26, 2018The majority of this episode consists of an interview between Heartland Director of Communications Jim Lakely and Bruce “The Gay Patriot” Carroll. Bruce joins the show to talk about his world view as well as his recent ban from Twitter.
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Internet/TelecomPolitics
Silicon Valley Moguls: Google Lists ‘Nazism’ as GOP Belief – Doesn’t Pull ISIS Accounts
by Seton Motley June 6, 2018Google has a long history of defending its serving as an ISIS platform.
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ConstitutionEconomicsLibertyPoliticsRegulation
All Public Forums Should Be Open and Uncensored
by Paul Driessen May 29, 2018Trump should embrace (and expand) court ruling that his Twitter account is free speech forum
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FeaturedPolitics
Can Twitter Be Trusted with Its New ‘Violent Images’ Rules?
by Billy Aouste December 22, 2017Do you trust Twitter?
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Internet/TelecomPolitics
The New York Times’ Social Media Crackdown Won’t Fix the Media
by Kevin Glass November 16, 2017The New York Times announced a new social media policy intended to crack down on the perception of bias among their reporters.
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Internet/Telecom
The Google-Facebook Online Ad Cartel is the Biggest Competition Problem
by Scott Cleland January 15, 2017By far the biggest competition problem facing U.S. antitrust and regulatory authorities is the Goobook Ad Cartel, the unaccountable dominant chokepoint for monetizing most online news, content, products and services.
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On Monday, a Gizmoda report charged that Facebook employees were biasing the “trending” bar by avoiding stories popular among conservatives, and even outright blocking conservative news outlets. Facebook responded in a statement that did not completely reject the report, “There are rigorous guidelines in place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality. These guidelines do not permit the suppression of political perspectives. Nor do they permit the prioritization of one viewpoint over another or on news outlet over another.” In not providing an outright rejection Facebook makes clear what we likely know about this accusation anyway, that something was awry likely because of people.