https://www.rt.com/news/512744-italy-restaurants-protest-lockdown/
Trump Directs Government to Review Ways to Minimize Purchases of Chinese Goods, Services
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A Message to Anyone Who Feels Like Winston in Orwell’s 1984
While the excessive cancel culture, that forces everyone to think the same way, can be quite disheartening, the good news is that there are actually many things we can do to reduce our exposure.
A big tech company, a bank, a social group, only has power over you as long as you chose to participate. Thankfully, today we have plenty of alternatives. If you start taking steps to join alternatives and create backups, you will be less vulnerable to coercion and ultimately be able to ignore a lot of the current pressure.
Refuse to be Silenced
There is light at the end of the Twitter/Facebook/Google/Apple censorship tunnel – if users and citizens refuse to bow to it.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/01/14/refuse-to-be-silenced-n2583120
Poland Slams Social Media Deplatforming of Trump as Government Readies Anti-Censorship Law
The Polish government has decried social media platforms’ (mis)handling of US President Donald Trump’s accounts as Warsaw prepares to pass its own legislation to stop ideological censorship.
Under the country’s new anti-censorship law, “removing lawful content would directly violate the law, and this will have to be respected by the platforms that operate in Poland,” he explained to Polish outlet Rzeczpospolita.
Twitter, Facebook Lose $51 Billion in Value After Booting Trump
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Representative Mark Green Condemns Last-Ditch Impeachment Efforts
“Every one of us has a role to play in bridging the divide”, Dr. Green said. “I urge all Americans to get off social media, and instead, talk with your neighbors, go to your house of worship, and call that family member you always argue with at Thanksgiving. And I hope President-elect Biden will ask his Congressional colleagues to work toward uniting the country instead of pursuing a rushed impeachment that will only deepen the wedge between us.”
https://markgreen.house.gov/2021/1/rep-mark-green-statement-on-congress-impeachment-vote
Mike Pence Says he Won’t Invoke 25th Amendment Against Trump in Letter to Pelosi
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Angela Merkel Calls Suspension of Trump’s Twitter Account “Problematic”
The German chancellor on Monday joined the growing rank of world leaders criticizing the unrestrained censorship that big tech companies are now engaged in, silencing elected officials, candidates and millions of citizens who have views and opinions that differ from the tech companies’ own.