By Hans Bader | January 11, 2021 | 10:30am EST
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives a speech. (Photo credit: Getty/Ole Jensen)
Twitter has banned some conservatives like Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell, while letting human-rights violators like Iran s Ayatollah Khamenei continue to tweet. Facebook recently removed the conservative WalkAway page, along with hundreds of thousands of videos and followers. A conservative social media application with millions of users Parler has been banned by Google, Amazon, and Apple. Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat.
The First Amendment only restricts what the government can do not private companies. Facebook, Google, and Twitter are private companies, so if they voluntarily ban Trump, or conservative figures, that doesn t violate free speech. Courts have made that clear in rulings such as
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Known as a right-wing radio host on 500 stations, Dennis Prager also founded and is president of the Prager University Foundation, which churns out dozens of videos a year on right-wing topics. According to new filings reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), Prager University saw its revenue more than triple in the aftermath of Trump s election as president, increasing from $5.42 million in 2016 to $18.6 million in 2018.
The group s stated mission is to promote the Judeo-Christian values on which America is founded: free speech, free enterprise, a moral foreign policy, and the rational case for God s existence, and counter what it sees as the Leftist indoctrination imposed by schools and universities.