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How to Limit Social Media’s Power without Growing Government

October 28, 2020 by Counter Markets

Op-Ed by Peter St. Onge Censorship by private companies is a topic that divides free marketers but has suddenly become important in the wake of Twitter and Facebook’s recent attempts to squash a New York Post story alleging corruption in the Biden family. Last year, economist James Miller argued that just as the power company can’t turn off your electricity for being a Trump … [Read more...] about How to Limit Social Media’s Power without Growing Government

How Not to Respond to Alarming Social Media Censorship

October 17, 2020 by Counter Markets

Op-Ed by Yaël Ossowski Call it election interference, censorship, or simple editorializing, but Twitter and Facebook's throttling of several New York Post articles this week has drawn lots of criticism. The stories allege that Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, introduced Ukrainian energy adviser Vadym Pozharskyi to his father after receiving … [Read more...] about How Not to Respond to Alarming Social Media Censorship

Why George Orwell’s Warning on “Self-Censorship” Is More Relevant Than Ever

July 18, 2020 by Counter Markets

By Brad Polumbo Rule One: Speak your mind at your own peril. Rule Two: Never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative. Rule Three: Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, the editor will get fired or reassigned, and you’ll be hung out to dry. The above is a quotation from … [Read more...] about Why George Orwell’s Warning on “Self-Censorship” Is More Relevant Than Ever

California’s Contractor Law Violates Free Speech

January 28, 2020 by Counter Markets

By Robert E. Wright It is becoming increasingly difficult to reject the hypothesis that California lawmakers are trying to solve their state’s notorious housing crisis by driving out everyone who isn’t a lover of earthquakes, fires, to-die-for weather, and arbitrary government. Their latest Constitutional faux pas is AB5, which, among many other things, limits California … [Read more...] about California’s Contractor Law Violates Free Speech

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