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Pennsylvania High Court Rules Police Can Access Google Searches Without Warrant

The justices pointed to Google’s own privacy policy as a kind of consent form. “In the case before us, Google went beyond subtle indicators,” they wrote. “Google expressly informed its users that one should not expect any privacy when using its services.”

Her ‘Game of Thrones’ GIF shut down a city meeting. She ‘lost everything’

December 26, 2025 0

A 43-page police report shows an extensive investigation by Tempe officers, but offers no smoking gun evidence that Tierney’s threat was real or that she recklessly disregarded a “substantial risk” that people would be alarmed by it — the legal qualification for speech to lose First Amendment protections.

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Letitia James Sued for Threatening School Boards That Permit Free Speech on LGBT Issues

December 23, 2025 1

In other words, the Attorney General and Commissioner of Education … require school board members across New York to self-censor and shut down parent speech that advocates for their core values and for children’s privacy, safety, and opportunity. If school board members and parents disagree with Defendants’ viewpoint, they cannot speak. If they do speak, school board members risk being removed from their elected offices, and school board members and parents alike risk being publicly and falsely branded a bully and harasser of children.

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Trump SUSPENDS $40BN Tech Deal With UK Over Free Speech Crackdown

December 20, 2025 2

With the US now leveraging economic deals to push back against censorship, this suspension sends a clear message: alliances come with strings attached when basic freedoms are at stake. As Britain doubles down on policing speech, Trump is ensuring American innovation—and expression—won’t pay the price.

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We Must Resist The Rise Of A Global Censorship Regime

December 14, 2025 0

Further, citizens in countries outside of the E.U., like the United States, are at risk of facing new levels of censorship, because the DSA applies to large online digital platforms and search engines accessed within the E.U. but that have a global presence. It explicitly states its extraterritorial applicability as it covers platforms used by people “that have their place of establishment or are located in the Union, irrespective of where the providers of those intermediary services [the platforms] have their place of establishment.”

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School District Pays $650k to Teachers Fired for Opposing Gender Ideology Policy

December 13, 2025 2

“Educators are free to express opinions on fundamental issues of public concern—like gender identity education policy—that implicate the freedoms of teachers, parents, and students,” ADF Legal Counsel Matthew Hoffmann said. “The Grants Pass School District is taking the right step by acknowledging that teachers don’t give up their First Amendment rights when they set foot on school property. Public schools can’t retaliate against speech simply because they disagree with what’s said.”

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Politically Correct ‘Dignity Index’ Would Inject Social Credit Scores Into Public Education

December 9, 2025 0

An index designed to categorize speech as contemptuous or dignifying threatens to become another speech suppression and indoctrination tool.

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Clandestine Campaign To Defund ZeroHedge, The Federalist & Breitbart Traced To Kier Starmer Operation

December 6, 2025 3

Now, thanks to a new book by investigative journalist Paul Holden that builds on reporting by Matt Taibbi, Paul Thacker and others, we learn that the origin of these campaigns, launched years before the pandemic, was none other than UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s political machine, which began targeting left-wing outlets speaking critically of Starmer such as The Canary, and then went after conservative outlets in America – just in time for the 2020 US election.

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The Military vs. Technocracy’s ‘Science Of Social Engineering’ – ‘We Are Everywhere’

December 2, 2025 1

“The art of PSYOP relies on persuasion rather than physical force. The tools of the trade are logic, fear, desire and other mental factors used to evoke specific emotions, attitudes and behaviors,” according to a U.S. Army report. “The ultimate objective is to persuade enemy, neutral and friendly nations and forces to take favorable actions toward the U.S. and its allies.”

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Brussels’ Internet Neo-Feudalism: Sledgehammer Or Stiletto?

November 28, 2025 3

If von der Leyen and her commission are not stopped in institutionalizing this regime EU-wide, freedom will vanish. Public discourse will be silenced. The iron cloak of dictatorial lethargy will descend over EU-Europe. What we observe in the UK now threatens EU citizens.

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Court Delivers Win in Ohio for Free Speech Rights on Pronouns

November 25, 2025 1

“the Supreme Court’s cases provide a clear answer” to this case. “A school district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would ‘materially and substantially disrupt’ school activities or infringe the legal ‘rights of others’ in the school community,”

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High School Girls Who Refused to Share Podium with Male Athlete Win Free Speech Lawsuit

November 22, 2025 2

“We didn’t refuse to stand on the podium out of hate,” Anderson told Fox News. “We did it because someone has to say this isn’t right. In order to protect the integrity and fairness of girls sports we must stand up for what is right.”

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BBC ‘Materially Misled’ Viewers to Believe Trump Encouraged January 6th Riots With ‘Doctored’ Clips

November 19, 2025 1

“Examining the charge that Trump had incited protesters to storm Capitol Hill, it turned out that Panorama had spliced together two clips from separate parts of his speech. This created the impression that Trump said something he did not and, in doing so, materially misled viewers,” Prescott remarked in his opening letter to the memo.

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