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May 12, 2022
Heartland Institute Applauds Federal Court Decision Lifting Injunction on Texas Law Protecting Conservative Speech on Social Media
“It’s a shame that Americans have to sue Big Tech to enjoy the freedom of speech they enjoyed on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter just a few years ago.”
Climate Change
January 20, 2022
Google Demonetizes Climate Skepticism
Climate Change Weekly #423
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October 20, 2021
Big Tech Censorship: Is Free Speech Dead, or Will Heartland Prevail?
The Heartlander, Fall 2021
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October 6, 2021
The US Sell-Out Continues: Big Tech's Latest Capitulations to Communist China
China and Big Tech are in lock-step, and we are doing nothing to stop it.
InfoTech & Telecom
September 9, 2021
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Commends Texas Law Making Social Media Companies Common Carriers
Heartland has long urged Texas, along with other states to take measures to prevent the suppression of conservative speech on social media platforms
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September 7, 2021
Big Tech Censorship Is an Assault on Individual Liberty
Today, a small number of giant corporations have secured monopoly power over the primary means by which Americans exercise their free-speech rights. It’s time for change.

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InfoTech & Telecom
May 12, 2022
Heartland Institute Applauds Federal Court Decision Lifting Injunction on Texas Law Protecting Conservative Speech on Social Media
By James Taylor, Cameron Sholty, Jim Lakely
“It’s a shame that Americans have to sue Big Tech to enjoy the freedom of speech they enjoyed on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter just a few years ago.”
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January 20, 2022
Google Demonetizes Climate Skepticism
By Anthony Watts, H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #423
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October 20, 2021
Big Tech Censorship: Is Free Speech Dead, or Will Heartland Prevail?
By James Taylor
The Heartlander, Fall 2021
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October 6, 2021
The US Sell-Out Continues: Big Tech's Latest Capitulations to Communist China
By Seton Motley
China and Big Tech are in lock-step, and we are doing nothing to stop it.
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September 9, 2021
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Commends Texas Law Making Social Media Companies Common Carriers
By James Taylor, Cameron Sholty
Heartland has long urged Texas, along with other states to take measures to prevent the suppression of conservative speech on social media platforms
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September 7, 2021
Big Tech Censorship Is an Assault on Individual Liberty
By James Taylor
Today, a small number of giant corporations have secured monopoly power over the primary means by which Americans exercise their free-speech rights. It’s time for change.
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August 26, 2021
North Carolina Federal Judge Cites ‘Disinformation’ to Ratify State Censorship
By Seton Motley
Government censorship destroys individual liberty, as seen in North Carolina.
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August 11, 2021
China Knows: Big Tech Hires Very Few People
By Seton Motley
Big Tech abusing their market share – means killing competitors and potential competitors. Which means killing jobs and potential jobs.
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July 27, 2021
Big Media’s Mass Focus on the Wrong Half of a DC Lobby Fight
By Seton Motley
Attack businesses that are impediments to Big Tech - even though they are competitively tiny.
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July 22, 2021
Heartland Institute Joins Coalition Calling on Feds to Cease Collusion with Social Media Platforms
By Jim Lakely
'The Biden administration is ripping the U.S. Constitution to shreds. Its assault on America’s freedom of speech is terrifying. It is the hallmark of dictatorships.'
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July 19, 2021
DoD 5G: Want to Lose to China in Something? Have Government Do It
By Seton Motley
Government can not efficiently deliver the mail.  So now it wants to deliver the Internet.
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July 15, 2021
Defense IG to Congress: Take Your Amazon Cronyism Oversight and Shove It
By Seton Motley
How has Amazon Retail afforded the ability to lose money for decades - and still murder global retail? By running other businesses that make money - and using that money to subsidize Amazon Retail.
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June 22, 2021
Big-Tech Defenders Vastly Underestimate Its Power Relative to Government’s
By Scott Cleland
Big-Tech is much more powerful than its defenders assume.
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June 21, 2021
The Economics of Paying Ransom
By Daniel Sutter
Collective action poses the second challenge. Businesses collectively have an interest in not rewarding cybercrime, yet individual businesses suffer these attacks.
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May 25, 2021
Why the Internet Is Industrial Policy Not Free Market
By Scott Cleland
Big Tech’s defense against any potential governmental accountability is wielding the myth that their success is a result of their free market merit, innovation, and competitiveness.
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May 24, 2021
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Applauds Florida Online Free-Speech Protection Law
By Samantha Fillmore, Cameron Sholty, S. T. Karnick
Heartland has long urged Florida, other states, to take measures to prevent the continual suppression of conservative speech on social media platforms
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May 20, 2021
The Achilles Heel Of Big Tech’s Cancel Power
By Scott Cleland
It is in the raw political interests of the government’s incumbent party and unchecked Big Tech to collectively cancel the opposition party online to retain control of their levers of power long term.
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May 17, 2021
Biden’s International Trade Big Tech Cronyism Is Ridiculously Small Ball
By Seton Motley
Trump put our outsourcing everything to corrupt China on the national radar.
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April 27, 2021
Why Repeal Not Reform Section 230?
By Scott Cleland
Repeal of Section 230’s 1996 lawless Wild West Internet policy is inevitable because it is based on an immoral premise and has inflicted severe damage to America’s constitutional liberties, national security and economic prosperity.
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April 26, 2021
Government Is Lying About What Broadband Is and What We Need from It
By Seton Motley
Biden, Inc and DCs Democrats are in the process of throwing trillions of dollars at things about which they know nothing.
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