CBN News - NRB Study: Social Sites Censoring Christians

September 16, 2011
By Paul Strand, CBN News Washington Sr. Correspondent

WASHINGTON -- One of the biggest promises of the Internet was that it would have unfettered free speech for all.

However, a new study released Thursday revealed that Christians are one of the few groups being censored online. The new media platforms of our world -- Facebook, Google, Apple, and MySpace -- all promise a world filled with much more free speech and democracy.

But the National Religious Broadcasters has warned these platforms could well be the new anti-religious censors of our day.

The NRB conducted a study of the social networking websites that showed even among the largest of the sites, only Twitter hasn't censored Christians.

"There's actually a pattern of anti-Christian censorship that's already occurred among several of them. And, then, when we looked farther, looked at their written policies, we found that [with] everyone of them, except for Twitter again," Craig Parshall, general counsel for the NRB, said. "They get an A+ from us. The rest of them get failing grades," he added.

Colby May, director of the office of governmental affairs at the American Center for Law and Justice, teamed up with Parshall and other groups to examine the new media platforms censorship for the last year-and-a-half.

"There is a kind of viewpoint censorship that's going on. And we need to go ahead and stand up and say, 'Stop. Not here. Don't do it. Wrong way. Turn around now,'" May explained.

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