Tag: censorship

An Effective Combination

For the crime of running a huge survey on defensive gun use in the U.S. that was not forced into the narrative structure of today’s gun-control activism, William English, an assistant professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, has been subpoenaed, attacked in The New York Times and by many other “mainstream” outlets and, basically, pilloried in order to, as he put it in The Wall Street Journal, “warn off other academics thinking of doing similar research, and to influence courts where states are losing on the merits.” [More]

Or as the Keeper always said:

[Via Jess]

Siding with the Enemy

The Court ruled 6-3 that the plaintiffs, a group of conservative states and social media users, had no standing to sue the federal government over its attempts to influence the censorship policies of social media giants. Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the opinion of the court, but Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented. [More]

Opinion…

Is it unfair to wonder whose got what on turncoat “conservatives”?

Inviting the Streisand Effect

Are you posting about the shocking assassination attempt on Wednesday upon the Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico? Well, a warning. You and the Big Tech platform you are posting on can be punished for spreading “disinformation’ if the European Commission, the increasingly authoritarian cabinet government of the European Union, has its way. [More]

Oooh… the Europeans are gonna get you!

That’s enough to make me want to speculate that surgeons are working to repair damage when the attempt caused him to forcefully expel his butt plug.

Funny, how the EU is imposing censorship to the benefit of a communist.

What did we save/kick their@$$es for again…?

[Via Michael G]

Gate Crashers

Despite the radical left’s efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies, we will not be deterred from our mission of remaining fearless and being one of the most trusted independent media outlets in America today. [More]

Can’t have information like this getting out.

If you get value from the site…

[Via Michael G]

Things You’d Expect a Totalitarian to Say

An Australian Senator has called for X owner Elon Musk to be jailed for life for refusing to adhere to the Australian government’s demands to remove a video of the brutal attack on a Christian Bishop in Sydney last week by an apparent Muslim extremist. [More]

Naturally, these are the same tyrants who demand a monopoly of violence unto themselves.

[Via bondmen]

Snitch Nation

It also targets reported instances of “a person’s hostile expression of animus toward another person, relating to the other person’s actual or perceived characteristics…” Literally, the hotline gives people a way of informing on others supposedly guilty of thought crimes – or, perhaps, speech crimes. [More]

Hey, if you don’t have any forbidden thoughts you’ve got nothing to worry about.

And tell me the bill’s main sponsor’s other priority surprises you.

[Via Michael G]

Revealing Truth Forbidden Under Punishment of Law

Judge Overseeing Case to Release Covenant Killer Manifesto Warns of Contempt If Parties ‘Usurp’ Sealed Materials [More]

What filthy politics must be in play for this to even be an issue on as story of such public importance that’s being exploited to ratchet down on our rights?

If I had the information, I’d defy this robed tyrant in an instant and protect my sources to the end.

[Via bondmen]

And It Continues?

Comment left under a post:

It would seem that your site has disappeared from my web browser. Had to go a very circuitous route to find you today. Thought I might have been in the public library in Cleveland, where your site is blocked by the libraries there………… Johny Gee

This after my weekend adventure?

I’ll check it out when I get better from this cold that I came down with. Hudson’s library is part of the CleveNet system, and if I can’t access it I may have a First Amendment claim.

Special Circumstances Necessitate Saturday Post

I typically don’t post here on weekends because I’m working on articles, behind-the-scenes sausage-making, and spending time in pursuit of happiness with my family, but something came up I thought I need to address immediately, plus the LaPierre story broke after I’d knocked off work yesterday.

Danger, Will Robinson?

I’ve talked before about how this blog and advocacy media are really the only ways I have of sharing links to my articles (aside from asking readers, which has for the most part been historically unreliable). I hope regulars here will agree they get information and insights you won’t get from the “real reporters” who dominate public perceptions (otherwise, why keep coming back?). So I was surprised (and more than a little p!$$ed) to see this reply to my X announcement about my latest AmmoLand article on California Democrat gun-grabbers harassing the “law-abiding” while their criminal constituents get another pass:

Like the man asked, WTF?

I use both Malwarebytes and Webroot, and have never had a problem with AmmoLand (albeit some readers who haven’t figured out ad blockers are prone to grouse about the price of “free”). So I clicked the Bitly link to see what the grievance was, and the only thing that makes “sense” is:

The link may have been reported to Bitly by a member of the public.

That’s it? And I don’t suppose you’re going to tell us who snitched? It’s not like I haven’t had stuff suppressed based on troll complaints before.

Without defining an issue and proving it, URL shortening service and link management platform Bitly is willing to disparage reputations and cast suspicion and fear about visiting websites just on some anonymous person with an unknown agenda’s say-so…?

So is AmmoLand a risky place to go? Not according to Google’s Safe Browsing check (WoG comes up clean as well):

And drive away business? That seems actionable.

So what might be relevant to know about Bitly in trying to untangle this attack suppressing my work? Maybe it’s not about ideology at all?

The link they’re deeming unsafe, with the link shortener beginning “go.shr.lc,” uses Shareaholic (“300,000+ forward-thinking businesses of all sizes rely on our software”), a COMPETITOR of Bitly.

And this may or may not mean something, but the Bitly CEO Toby Gabriner is based in San Francisco. Open Secrets shows he has donated to two candidates over the years, Josh Harder and Catherine Cortez Masto, both Democrats, and if you look at their links, both extremist gun-grabbers advancing Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown agenda.

Now it’s back to X to try to undo the damage.

UPDATE

We are working with Bitly to get these linked unblocked ASAP. [More]

I hope that means you’re going to sue their @$$es if they don’t issue a public apology for reputation damages and compensate for any monetary damages you can determine they’ve caused you and your 300,00 customers by scaring readers away from their content.

Wayne’s World

Former NRA chief Wayne LaPierre misspent gun rights group’s money and owes more than $4M, jury finds [More]

Some are saying being able to put all the blame on Wayne will now work in the Association’s favor in terms of all being forgiven and people coming back.

Not until the rubber stamp board and complicit top officers are replaced.

I’ve been asked to endorse the four “bullet vote” candidates. My response:

Only if they answer my questionnaire correctly.

Crickets. That was two-and-a-half weeks ago.

And this was long before that.

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