Bluesky will continue to be a draw for free-speech-phobic and viewpoint-intolerant users. Fortunately, most people want to be part of a larger discourse and engage with the world around them, despite the presence of trolls and hateful commentators. […]
The SPLC publishes a “hate map” that it claims highlights the “infrastructure upholding white supremacy.” Critics say the map includes mainstream conservative and Christian groups alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, falsely smearing mainstream groups as hateful. […]
President Donald Trump’s budget said DHS could re-allocate roughly $18 million by axing the center and its grants, which the administration claims “were weaponized to target Americans exercising their First Amendment rights.”… […]
The accusation is based on a claim that he said the words “Sieg Heil” during a Christmas livestream, but the video clip shows he actually said “die Qualität” (meaning “quality”) with a mispronunciation. […]
Winston Churchill once warned that “appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.” When it comes to the crocodile of censorship, history is strewn with defenders who later became digestives. Censorship produces an insatiable appetite for greater and greater speech limits, and today’s censorship supporters often become tomorrow’s censored subjects. […]
This is 5G warfare. It’s electromagnetic. It’s psychological. It’s linguistic.
And if we don’t reclaim our language, we lose the fight before it even begins. […]
A version of the document seen by POLITICO before its official publication says the Islamist group’s supposed ideological allies sought to push Brussels to criminalize blasphemy and promote a “singular” vision of religious freedom that clashes with France’s strict model of a secular state that protects both freedom of religion and freedom from religion. The European Parliament and MEPs were “particularly targeted,” the report said. […]
Michael Chamberlain, head of the nonprofit watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust, which obtained the documents under the Freedom of Information Act, said the memos proved that while NED’s effort was billed as targeting overseas propaganda, it ended up routinely focusing on suppressing American speech, mostly right-leaning or conservative in nature. […]
The league announced a new initiative titled “No Space for Hate” this week ahead of the season tip-off. The campaign will include the use of AI social media monitoring tools that will help the league enforce a revised code of conduct. […]
There is a massive purge of online data by the Administration that threatens the historical record. Thousands upon thousands of pages, and even whole websites, have disappeared without a trace. Thus, the audit trail of society is irretrievably broken. Fortunately, there are independent archivists trying to preserve whatever they can. […]
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