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Recent Examples of censorship
While many Silicon Valley leaders espoused pro-Democrat views especially during the Obama years, Sacks became increasingly vocal in his conservative stances, especially around the Russia-Ukraine war and fighting censorship on tech platforms.
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Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 7 Dec. 2024
Unfortunately, the TikTok ban was conceived and pushed through based upon inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
An analysis from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, however, attributed Kuwait’s censorship of the film to a hostility toward Western feminism, rather than LGBTQ+ aesthetics or casting.
—James Factora, Them, 4 Dec. 2024
Trump has repeatedly accused the company and its social media peers of anti-conservative censorship, despite evidence to the contrary.
—Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
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Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 7 Dec. 2024
Unfortunately, the TikTok ban was conceived and pushed through based upon inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
An analysis from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, however, attributed Kuwait’s censorship of the film to a hostility toward Western feminism, rather than LGBTQ+ aesthetics or casting.
—James Factora, Them, 4 Dec. 2024
Trump has repeatedly accused the company and its social media peers of anti-conservative censorship, despite evidence to the contrary.
—Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Censorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/censorship. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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