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EU signs draconian anti-free speech law to “police” the entire internet, take down websites containing “unapproved” speech

September 27, 2023 -

The highly invasive Digital Services Act (DSA) took effect just last month, allowing bureaucrats, many of them unelected, to police the internet and restrict what gets said and shared.

"We're bringing our European values into the digital world," proudly announced European Commission (EC) head Ursula von der Leyen, who recently blamed Russia for dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, towards the end of World War II – a simple fact check shows that the United States ...

Fact-checking, anti-disinformation campaigns are destroying free speech in “Global Boiling Era”

February 07, 2024 -

Instead of directly punishing We the People for saying the "wrong" things, the powers that be are instead going behind our backs to the social media platforms many people use to communicate with one another, urging them to censor what gets posted and shared.

There are also the "anti-disinformation" campaigns being launched to fight things like "vaccine hesitancy" and "antisemitism," which are coupled with "hate speech" laws that aim to further restrict what people say ...

Are you in an anti-free speech state? We now have the definitive list

December 29, 2023 - anti-free speech states for citizens.

(Article republished from JonathanTurley.org)

The 5th Circuit previously ruled in Missouri v. Biden that administration officials “likely violated” the First Amendment and issued a preliminary injunction banning the government from communicating with social media companies to limit speech.

Not surprisingly, the state of California is leading the effort to get the Supreme Court to reverse a decision enjoining the government ...

Kennedy schools Dems on free speech

July 26, 2023 -

(Article by Jeffrey Tucker republished from DailyReckoning.com)

The topic was censorship and how and to what extent federal government agencies under two administrations muscled social media companies to take down posts, ban users and throttle content. The majority made its case.

What was strange was the minority reaction throughout.

They tried to shut down RFK. They moved to go to executive session so that the public could not hear the proceedings. The effort ...

Why today’s elites literally can’t stand free speech

May 31, 2023 -

(Article by David Kupelian republished from WND.com)

Forty-five years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union took a controversial yet principled stand for the First Amendment right to free speech when it defended a group of neo-Nazis intent on marching through Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb where many survivors of the Holocaust resided. Mind you, these would-be marchers were not boisterous conservatives such as today’s Democrats routinely label “neo-Nazis” and “white supremacists,” ...

The neocon jihad against free speech goes full-tilt

November 01, 2023 -

(Article by Ben Bartee republished from ArmageddonProse.Substack.com)

All along, their “free speech” talking points were code for the much less noble principle: “I want my political opponents silenced and my political tribe amplified in the media because I’m scared my ideas can’t stand up to scrutiny.”

…And so, just like that, all of their alleged fidelity to the concept of freedom of speech is tossed out the window when the neocons catch the slightest whiff ...

Canadian constitutional expert: Trudeau’s Online Harms Act threatens free speech

2 months ago -

The Online Harms Act, known as Bill C-63 and introduced by Justice Minister Arif Virani, also includes amendments to the Criminal Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act. The new law and additional amendments could reinstate Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, a "hate speech" provision that was abolished by conservative former Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2013.

Bill C-63 will not only reinstate Section 13 but will also enable the government to target specific ...

Speak your truth: Don’t let the government criminalize free speech

April 30, 2023 -

(Article by John & Nisha Whitehead republished from Rutherford.org)

What the First Amendment affirms is an engaged citizenry that speaks truth to power using whatever peaceful means are available to us.

Speaking one’s truth doesn’t have to be the same for each person, and that truth doesn’t have to be palatable or pleasant or even factual.

We can be loud.

We can be obnoxious.

We can be politically incorrect.

We can be conspiratorial or ...

THE IRONY: Harvard, FIRE’s “Worst School for Free Speech 2023,” supports FREE EXPRESSION of pro-HAMAS students

October 18, 2023 -

"Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views," Gay said in the university’s third public statement. "But that is a far cry from endorsing them. It's in the exercise of our freedom to speak that we reveal our characters and the character of our institution." (Related: Demonstrating a stunning disconnect from reality, ...

Red alert: The total, final obliteration of free speech in 2024

January 05, 2024 -

(Article by Patrick Wood republished from Technocracy.com)

The historic outcome of killing free speech is always genocide. Check your history. Russia, Germany, China, Cambodia, Ukraine, Mozambique, Rhodesia, Uganda, Nigeria, Rwanda, Darfur, and the list goes on. All of this killing was enabled by the cloak of silence after Free Speech was wiped out. Why? Because the victims were unable to cry out for help!

This is why the loss of Free Speech is existential for ...

Western countries continue to enforce OPPRESSIVE MEASURES to silence free speech

January 02, 2024 -

One man was arrested and could go to prison for months just for sharing memes. In March, a Brooklyn jury convicted Douglass Mackey, who goes by Ricky Vaughn on X (formerly Twitter), of scheming to "trick voters out of casting a ballot" during the 2016 presidential election.

However, he only shared memes that made fun of Hillary Clinton. The fake memes Mackey posted told people to vote from home via text messages.

In court, he claimed that he didn't think anyone ...

U.S. government illegally SURVEILLING targeted citizens to SILENCE their free speech

September 04, 2023 -

For at least the past 60 years since the time when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963, America's shadow government has been hard at work creating a prison-like society in which nothing ever really changes for the better, and everyone lives in constant and growing fear about what comes next.

As of late, the premier divide-and-conquer tactic seems to be stoking a race ...

I was banned from Elon’s ‘free speech’ X app for offending power

a month ago -

(Article by Kit Klarenberg republished from TheGrayZone.com)

On February 17, I was suspended from Twitter/X without warning. The cause was mass-reporting by Zionist activists I’d offended. My removal was justified on the basis that I violated X’s “rules against violent speech.” Having endlessly condemned violence on the platform – in particular, the Gaza genocide – I’m flummoxed. Not least because a post from one of my Zionist detractors, which openly calls for me to be “battered ...

MSNBC openly attacks First Amendment, says free speech leaves American democracy “vulnerable”

a month ago -

In a recent segment on "The Rachel Maddow Show," the University of Michigan law professor complained that it is precisely America's "deep commitment to free speech" that makes the country susceptible to "misinformation."

The author of a new book we will not bother to mention here, McQuade says her "goal" in attacking the First Amendment in her new book is to spark a "national conversation about truth and our commitment to it."

"I hope that by dissecting it, explaining ...

Free speech coming to an END in 2024, warns Paul Craig Roberts

2 months ago -

Instead of representing We the People, government authorities and the puppet masters who pull their strings now claim to represent the so-called democratic institutions that underpin modern society. This shift means that democratic institutions are now to be protected at all costs, even from the U.S. Constitution that threatens their existence.

Paul Craig Roberts says the United States is being redefined in such a way as to eliminate the constitutional protections that has ...

Michael Mann v. Mark Steyn: The criminalizing of free speech in America

February 14, 2024 -

(Article by Patrick Wood republished from Technocracy.news)

I wrote in Global Warming Activist Michael Mann Demands Censorship Of Dissenters in 2021,

Michael Mann is the discredited climate scientist who fabricated the infamous “hockey stick” model of global warming. His answer to critics like Dr. Tim Ball is to sue them. Now he wants all dissenters forcibly censored and removed from public discussion. This is how the “science is settled” by pseudo-science ideologues....

Professors: Free speech and intellectual diversity are not essential to higher education

November 27, 2023 -

(Article republished from JonathanTurley.org)

Two Arizona State University professors — Richard Amesbury and Catherine O’Donnell — wrote that free speech concerns yield too much to the “right wing” and that free speech should not be given the protection currently afforded by universities and colleges. Indeed, they argue that free speech may be harming higher education by fostering “unworthy” ideas.

Amesbury teaches religious studies and O’Donnell teaches history ...

Australia to CRIMINALIZE free speech and JAIL those who dare exercise it

November 13, 2023 -

The so-called "Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023," the legislation creates a new framework for the broad-scale censorship of "misinformation" and "disinformation," at least as the Aussie government defines such things.

The law is so broad and vague in its far-reaching directives that online "harm" could include just about anything the government decides one day is "untrue" or "dangerous."

Section 2 of ...

Irony and hate crimes: Local U.K. politician arrested for DEFENDING FREE SPEECH

September 08, 2023 -

Stevens – a member of the Conservative (Tory) Party –serves as a councilor on the Wellingborough Town Council in the English county of Northamptonshire. The 50-year-old said he was questioned by officers at the local police station over allegations of hate crimes. They showed him three social media posts published on his Twitter account.

Stevens, who had 76 followers on his account, retweeted a post that compared the very different treatment of two religious preachers....

‘The official truth’: The end of free speech that will end America

May 30, 2023 -

(Article by J.B. Shurk republished from GatestoneInstitute.org)

Now that the government has fully inserted itself into the news and information industry, the criminalization of free speech is a very real threat. (Image source: iStock)

If legacy news corporations fail to report that large majorities of the American public now view their journalistic product as straight-up propaganda, does that make it any ...