'New media' companies accused of being anti-Christian

Recommended by Alicia Purdy

For the Deseret News

Published: Friday, May 25 2012 3:00 a.m. MDT

Our take: National Religious Broadcasters partnered with the American Center for Law and Justice to examine how frequently Christian ideas or content were censored or removed from new media platforms and online companies like Facebook, Google and Apple. Their findings were that each of the big name media or social networking companies had either removed, censored or refused certain Christian-type opinions, ads and even apps. Twitter was the only company found to be open to Christian ideas and content.

"New media" communications like Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Google are extremely popular these days.

But Christian advocates, like the National Religious Broadcasters, say some of those companies could limit the American tradition of free speech.

The NRB and other Christian leaders gathered in the nation's capital recently to discuss the threat of censorship on Web-based communications.

"We started our analysis of new media censorship when it was only a potential threat," Craig Parshall, senior vice president of communications and general counsel for the NRB, said.

Read more at CBN.com.

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