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EU vs. X: The Battle Over Free Speech Escalates In Paris

February 5, 2026 Thomas Kolbe via ZeroHedge 0

A raid on Elon Musk’s company X in Paris: On Tuesday morning, the French public prosecutor gained access to the company’s offices. The stated purpose of the investigation is the dissemination of child pornography and violations of personal rights through the spread of Deepfakes.

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Free Speech Needs A Reset In America

February 5, 2026 Sheldon H. Jacobson via The Spokesman-Review 1

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our society has morphed into a segregated form of free speech that erodes the very essence of such freedom.

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The Government’s Long War on Free Speech

February 5, 2026 David S. D Amato via Counterpunch 1

Americans suffer in large part because we don’t know our government‘s history, because we don’t care about that history. We root for our teams and we don’t notice or care until it’s too late. What we are watching play out today is an upshot of the fathomless ignorance and apathy of Americans who treat politics as professional sports or fake wrestling.

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Free speech for me but not for thee

February 5, 2026 Niall McCrae via The Burning Platform 0

Facing an authoritarian bombast in the White House, the Left has suddenly rediscovered the value of free speech. After years of supporting clampdowns through the preposterous phenomenon of ‘hate speech’, now left-wing activists are having their wings clipped for allegedly hateful protests and social media posts.

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Apple News Continues Embargo of Right-Leaning Media

January 29, 2026 Heather Moon via mrcFreeSpeech 1

The growing use of news aggregators makes obvious bias in aggregators’ feeds an egregious manipulation, especially without disclosure of its methods and reasons for selection. Apple News explains that it uses editors to select its top stories, making its overt suppression of right-leaning outlets even more troublesome

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California Restricts Free Speech… Of Lawyers?

January 29, 2026 Patrick wood 1

The United States Supreme Court has clearly explained that the First Amendment prohibits government from restricting speech, symbols or expressive conduct because of the message, ideas, subject matter, or content. There are no exceptions for hate speech, courtesy, dignity, or court officers.

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Censorship And The Ratchet Effect: Threats To Free Speech Outlast Supposed Crises

January 29, 2026 Julian Adorney via The Daily Economy 1

During the COVID era, the Great Panic of 2020, “dissenters from the official narrative were blacklisted and booted. The tools censors used aren’t going away.” The “ratchet effect” has carried the censorship mantra over to the current administration. With foreign attacks on Free Speech in America, the ratchet is turning into a torque wrench, putting immense pressure on America to fold. CFFS resolutely defends Free Speech for all American citizens, regardless of political orientation.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson Demonstrates That She Still Doesn’t Know What a Woman Is

January 19, 2026 Tyler O 'Neill via The Daily Signal 1

That’s where Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confusion comes in. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., famously asked Jackson to define the word “woman” in her confirmation hearing in 2022, but Jackson refused, stating, “I’m not a biologist.” The justice has had nearly four years to come up with a definition, but her questions in oral arguments this week suggest she’s still out to lunch on the basic distinction between men and women.

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Ninth Circuit Issues Landmark Religious Liberty Decision

January 10, 2026 John Stonestreet 0

The court’s decision also reminds us of a critical truth: Faith is personal, but it is not private. Religious liberty doesn’t just protect our rights to believe in the privacy of our heads, our hearts, our homes, or our houses of worship. The First Amendment protects religious exercise, the active, practical living out of one’s deepest-held conviction, including the building and running of organizations designed to apply those convictions to the challenges and struggles of life.

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Worst Censorship of 2025: Big Tech Targeted Right-Leaning Media, Trump, Faith and Life

January 6, 2026 Catherine Salgado via mrcFreeSpeech America 1

While the Big Four digital news gatekeepers aggressively pushed elitist media, artificial intelligence chatbots tried to undermine President Donald Trump and his AI agenda. Meanwhile, platforms like Bluesky and YouTube suppressed posts from Vice President JD Vance and an interview of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, respectively. Other social media platforms censored faith and the pro-life message, with Instagram covering up the truth about abortion, and X suppressing Bible verses and anti-terrorism messages from the Israeli government.

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