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All they needed was an opening. And for the rich extremists at the helm of the West’s social media, last Wednesday’s riot gave them one. The purging of conservative expression has begun. We knew it was coming — just as we’ve always known it will take every one of us to stop it. Most Americans thought they understood censorship. They’ve watched it evolve and expand this last decade, scooping up more people in its nets in the name of “tolerance,” “diversity,” and “non-violence.” But what happened this weekend was not a tweet blocked here...

By Tony Perkins | January 12, 2021 | 12:46pm EST Jack Dorsey's platform, Twitter, has come under fire for recent mass censorship. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) All they needed was an opening. And for the rich extremists at the helm of the West's social media, last Wednesday's riot gave them one. The purging of conservative expression has begun. We knew it was coming -- just as we've always known it will take every one of us to stop it. Most Americans thought they understood censorship. They've watched it evolve and expand this last decade,...

Big Tech's battle with President Trump has become an all-out war on conservatives' free speech, Republican critics said Sunday after social media banished the president and his supporters from the Internet platforms.

The purge isn’t being engaged in only by Big Tech and the liberal media, but also by anti-Trump activists of all stripes.

Graphic: Mozilla Online platforms are hastilycuttingties with President Donald Trump and his ilk after years of milquetoast responses to the hateful and violent rhetoric fomenting under their watch, and all it took was a deadly insurgency at the nation’s capital. However, Mozilla says deplatforming doesn’t go far enough and has called for investigations and increased transparency into how sites target users for advertising and content recommendations. Advertisement On Friday, Mozilla, the privacy and security nonprofit behind the Firefox browser, denounced this week’s events and the ro...