These tweets by Elon Musk can be found here and here. Thank goodness that Musk has come out against censorship.
Social Media Censorship
Arbitrary Social Media Censorship, again by YouTube
On February 20th, 2022, John Lott was interviewed by Sebastian Gorka on his national radio show. In just a month, this is the second time that our interviews have been tagged as violating community standards. If we get a third violation within the next 90-days, we...
Arbitrary Social Media Censorship, this time by YouTube
In April 2021, John Lott did an interview with America's Voice about the problems with Mail-in ballots in Missoula, Montana. YouTube says that the video that we posted there violated their community standards on "Elections misinformation policies." They say "This...
Twitter is again Censoring our work on the claim that White Supremacists are behind so many mass public shootings
Are we not allowed to point out that recent mass public shooters are environmentalists and socialists? In 2019, Twitter closed down both the CPRC and John Lott's accounts because they didn't want mass public shooters in El Paso and New Zealand identified as anything...
At Townhall: Twitter’s Inconsistent Standards in Deleting Tweets from Trump to Kaepernick
The political bias by social media has continued. At the Crime Prevention Research Center, we have dealt with social media bias direction many times (see here for some of our posts). Here is Dr. John Lott's latest piece on political bias by Twitter. Twitter is not...
At Townhall: Twitter’s Warning Label on Trump’s Tweet is Wrong
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about Twitter's new policy to warn readers that they think that Trump's tweet contained wrong information. Unfortunately, Twitter is the one who got the information wrong. Twitter is no longer willing to just let President...
YouTube Censorship: Claims a brief example that we posted of Television show bias violates their Community Guidelines
Blue Bloods, CBS, Season 10, Episode 12, January 10, 2020 In January, we posted a brief eleven second video from the CBS show Blue Bloods. The show made the false claim that police commit suicides at high rates because they have "easy access to guns," and we provided...
UPDATED: Twitter blocks the CPRC account and deletes all our Twitter followers, supposedly for abusive behavior, but no explanation is offered, Twitter has offered us a temporary reprieve
UPDATE: The block on our account has been at least temporarily lifted. Original: Twitter has again blocked our account, this time doing the equivalent of the Twitter death penalty, blocking our account and removing all our 4,700 Twitter followers. Below is the...
At Townhall.com: Twitter’s Political Bias
Here are the two important paragraphs in Dr. John Lott's latest post. Twitter offered to unlock the accounts if I agree to a post saying that “your Tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.” But Twitter refuses to explain why they locked our...
At the New York Daily News: Twitter’s debate-chilling problem: The social media site’s arbitrary policies allow foreign nations to censor American — often without explanation
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the New York Daily News about Twitter locking the CPRC Twitter account. I am the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, whose account Twitter locked because it tweeted a link to a Daily News article that I wrote...
National Review discusses Twitter locking John Lott’s account
John Fund at National Review discusses Twitter locking Dr. John Lott's account: Last March, John Lott, head of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of the book More Guns, Less Crime, sent out this tweet trying to debunk claims that the Christchurch shooter...
Twitter has now locked the Crime Prevention Research Center account for Tweeting about the El Paso WalMart shooter, won’t explain
First, Twitter blocked John Lott's account because of a post about the New Zealand mosque killer, and now they have locked the Crime Prevention Research Center's account. Again, they have blocked this account for a similar reason -- explaining that the killer had...