On Wednesday, May 5, NRB Senior Vice President of Communications, Daniel Darling, hosted a panel of guests on NRB Live at Lunch to discuss big tech and platform censorship issues. Darling was joined by Ryan Anderson of the Ethics & Public Policy Center, Jason Thacker of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and Craig DeRoche of Family Policy Alliance.
The Facebook Oversight Board’s Decision
Just prior to the webinar, the Facebook Oversight Board issued a ruling, upholding Facebook’s ban on President Trump’s use of Facebook.
“I think [this ruling] shows a lack of interest in a diversity of opinion and what’s going on in our community,” DeRoche said. “It’s not a small fraction of our society that wants to have these conversations in social media.”
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Arkansas recently passed three discriminatory laws targeting transgender people, particularly trans youth, including measures denying them health care and banning them from sports. Local print coverage of these laws was often lacking, as journalists rarely talked to trans people they impact and largely failed to push back against bigotry and anti-trans misinformation.
A Media Matters review of local media from February 2 when the first legislation was introduced through April 7 the day after the third law was passed found that Arkansas newspapers printed 32 articles on one or more of these laws and only 12, about 38%, included the perspective of a trans or nonbinary person. About 56% of the articles came from one paper, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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Biden s HHS Appeals to Reimpose Transgender Mandate By Michael W. Chapman | April 22, 2021 | 3:09pm EDT
President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
(CNS News) A federal mandate issued by the Obama administration requiring doctors to perform transgender surgery on any person, including children recommended for the procedure, was declared unlawful by two federal courts.
But now the Biden administration is appealingthe ruling to try to reimpose the mandate on doctors, nurses, and health care providers that oppose such practices for religious or moral reasons. The Biden Admin just filed an appeal seeking to force religious doctors and hospitals to perform potentially harmful gender-transition procedures against their conscience and professional medical judgment. This is bad for patients, doctors, and religious liberty, Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counselor at Becket Law, tweeted