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Twitter Misses Targets for Revenue, Profits, User Growth Under Censor-Happy CEO

Twitter posted its first earnings report since appointing its new censorship-happy CEO, Parag Agrawal, and missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue, and user growth.

Sen. Blackburn Sounds Alarm on Biden FCC Pick Gigi Sohn: 'Dishonest,' 'Radical Nominee'

Sen.Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) condemned one of Joe Biden’s more controversial nominees on the eve of her second Senate hearing, Gigi Sohn, who has been nominated to serve a five-year term at the FCC.

Kazakhstan: Set Independent Inquiry into January Events

(Berlin) – The Kazakhstan government should invite international experts to join its domestic investigative efforts into serious human rights violations during the January 2022 protests and violence to ensure that the results are seen as credible, Human Rights Watch said today. The statement followed a meeting between Mukhtar Tileuberdi, Kazakhstan’s

This Week in the New Normal #22

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. …what the Guardian means by “admitting mistakes” The worst article we read this week was in The Guardian, it

Turkey: Council of Europe Votes for Infringement Process

(Istanbul) – The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers’ vote on February 2, 2022 to begin infringement proceedings against Turkey is an important step to support human rights protection in Turkey and uphold the international human rights framework, Human Rights Watch said today. The resolution concerns Turkey’s failure over the

Kazakhstan: Protesters Arbitrarily Arrested, Beaten

(Berlin) – Kazakhstan security forces have arbitrarily arrested peaceful protesters and others, ill-treated and tortured some detainees, and interfered with detainees’ access to lawyers following nationwide protests in early January 2022, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch received credible reports of dozens of cases in which police arbitrarily detained

Uzbek Blogger Jailed for Facebook Post

A court in Uzbekistan has sentenced a Muslim blogger to seven and a half years in prison for something many people do every day: posting an innocuous message on Facebook.

The Age of Intolerance: Cancel Culture’s War on Free Speech

“Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.” George Carlin Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance, policed by techno-censors, social media

Belarus: Civil Society ‘Purge’

(Berlin) – Belarusian authorities unleashed an unprecedented crackdown against civil society following peaceful countrywide protests in spring and summer 2020, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022. In 2021 Belarusian government viciously targeted political and civic activists, independent journalists, and human rights defenders, subjecting them to smear campaigns,

Winning the War on “Misinformation”

“Free inquiry on a free platform is the only practice that distinguishes a free from a slave society.” Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 When I was little, I had a poster of a raccoon with his paw over a kitten’s mouth saying, “If