Free Speech in Peril

Why do Twitter, Facebook & Co. suppress conservative opinions? Not because conservatives are less truthful than liberals, but because the “independent fact checkers” the companies employ to police their content are nearly all left-of-centre.

Free speech isn’t having a good year. In the UK, we naively thought we’d won a significant victory on 5 January when Google reinstated the YouTube channel of a right-of-centre, anti-lockdown radio station it had banned 12 hours earlier. This was after a chorus of protest by free speech supporters. But any hope that Big Tech would rein itself in was short-lived. 

Free Speech in Peril

The riot in Washington, D.C. 24 hours later, when T ...