Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Michelle Malkin, RSBN, Gateway Pundit Censored by Twitter on Inauguration Eve

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Categories: ASCF News Emerging Threats

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Michelle Malkin, Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) and the Gateway Pundit have all been locked out of their Twitter accounts for 24 hours for violations of Twitter’s “civic integrity” policy.

Malkin posted a screenshot of Twitter’s message informing her that her account had been locked on her Telegram channel. Twitter cited no reason for the lock in its communication to her.

“Twitter doesn’t want me expressing my opinions 24 hours before inauguration. No reason given, but of course we know the reason. If you’re on Twitter, spread the word,” said Malkin.

A Twitter spokeswoman told Breitbart News that both Malkin and RSBN’s accounts had been temporarily locked for repeated violations of the platform’s “civic integrity policy.”

CNN confirmed that the Gateway Pundit was also locked for allegedly violating this policy, which Twitter gradually expanded in the runup to the 2020 presidential election.

The past few weeks have seen increasingly draconian measures taken by the mainstream tech platforms, including the banning of President Donald J. Trump, as well as the censorship of alternative social network Parler — effectively banned from the internet through concerted deplatforming by Amazon Web Services and other third party vendors.

Gab.com, a free speech friendly social netework that relies on its own phyiscal web servers instead of Amazon or any other third party, remains online, and has received a surge of interest as users seek a safe haven from Silicon Valley censors.

Gab reported that its traffic increased by over 750 percent in the days after President Trump’s ban, and Business Insider reported that the platform was gaining 10,000 users an hour.

Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr

Link: Michelle Malkin, RSBN, Gateway Pundit Censored by Twitter on Inauguration Eve (breitbart.com)

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