{"id":354316,"date":"2018-03-29T02:03:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-how-the-left-turned-tech-giants-into-their-speech-police\/"},"modified":"2018-03-29T02:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T01:03:08","slug":"prison-planet-com-how-the-left-turned-tech-giants-into-their-speech-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-how-the-left-turned-tech-giants-into-their-speech-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb How The Left Turned Tech Giants Into Their Speech Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/03\/27\/google-facebook-advertisers-censor-content\/\"><strong>Daily Caller<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 28, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Left has successfully deputized some of the world\u2019s largest corporations into policing the speech of their political opponents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liberals have made its corporations\u2019 responsibility to enforce content limits on public speech by leveraging their power into advertisers and as platforms.<\/p>\n<p>As advertisers, companies are now expected to guarantee they won\u2019t finance speech liberals deem outside of acceptable discourse. In practice, this means blacklisting right-of-center voices ruled to have crossed the line.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal activist groups sought to cut off financial revenue streams to conservative and right-of-center voices \u2014 like Fox News host <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/11\/14\/multiple-democratic-groups-part-of-coordinated-political-hit-on-sean-hannity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Hannity<\/a>and Breitbart News \u2014 by pressuring advertisers into boycotting them over perceived offensive statements.<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing group Media Matters has been waging boycott wars against Fox News for years. Media Matters led a successful boycott campaign to defund Fox News host Bill O\u2019Reilly in April 2017, following a series of sexual harassment accusations against the longtime host. Fox News fired O\u2019Reilly after his advertisers fled the show in droves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/03\/27\/google-facebook-advertisers-censor-content\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, March 28, 2018  at  8:01 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/how-the-left-turned-tech-giants-into-their-speech-police.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/how-the-left-turned-tech-giants-into-their-speech-police.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily CallerMarch 28, 2018 The Left has successfully deputized some of the world\u2019s largest corporations into policing the speech of their political opponents. Liberals have made its corporations\u2019 responsibility to enforce content limits on public speech by leveraging their power into advertisers and as platforms. As advertisers, companies are now expected to guarantee they won\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}