Free Speech

Censorship

Maine legislature censures Rep. Laurel Libby for pointing out trans athlete who won girls’ competition

February 28, 2025 Jackson Thompson via Fox News 3
During Tuesday’s vote, Libby came to the house floor with a prepared seven-page speech on the importance of protecting girls’ and women’s sports from trans inclusion. However, throughout the night, her microphone was consistently turned off when she was trying to deliver that speech. 

“I was completely unable, from my first sentence, to get a word out, before the other side was shutting me down,” Libby said, adding that she had never seen anything like that happen during her tenure in the Maine legislature. 

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Free Speech

The Department of Defense has allocated millions of dollars to create phony social media profiles the government could turn against Americans.

February 25, 2025 Logan Washburn via The Federalist 4
While this may appear benign, it is a shocking admission — the government sponsored a massive network of fake social media accounts that it could manipulate, capable of capturing users’ data.

“This DARPA contract involved the development and deployment of technology to create and manage fake social media accounts at scale,” The Federalist’s CEO Sean Davis posted on X. “This is far more insidious than a simple government payment to a news agency.”

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Legal

Virginia Teacher Reinstated after Being Fired for Her Christian Views on Gender

February 15, 2025 Anugrah Kumar via The Washington Stand 1
Liberty Counsel sent a letter to the district asserting that the First Amendment, Title VII and Virginia law protect teachers who speak on public matters in a personal capacity.

“… As interpreted by the Supreme Court of Virginia, … [the teacher] has the right in her capacity as a citizen to freely speak and write regarding her religious views and political views as they are informed by her faith — and neither she nor any other teacher of [the school district] may be penalized for speech expressed in a private capacity — whether that speech takes place pre-employment, or during employment but in a private capacity,” read the letter.

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Media

New FCC Chair Turns the Spotlight on Publicly Funded NPR, PBS

February 8, 2025 Matthew Xiao via The Washington Free Beacon 1
NPR and PBS, both of which receive federal funding, “could be violating federal law by airing commercials,” FCC chairman Brendan Carr wrote in a Wednesday letter to NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger. “In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.”

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Free Speech

Can Brent Bozell and Kari Lake ‘Make Media Great Again’ at Broadcast Agencies?

January 30, 2025 Fred Lucas via The Daily Signal 1
Days into his second term, Trump already appears intent on moving quickly to refocus USAGM on its mission of promoting freedom and democracy around the world. On Tuesday, he tapped L. Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the Media Research Center, to be the agency’s new CEO. In December, Trump announced Kari Lake, a former TV news anchor from Arizona, as his nominee to lead Voice of America, one of the entities USAGM oversees.

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Free Speech

Bloodsport: Lara Logan Exposes “The Age Of Information Warfare”

December 18, 2024 Patrick Wood 1
The death of Free Speech is not accidental. Rather, it is an intentional act of homicide at the hands of Technocrats because they know that is the only way that they can flip the world into Technocracy. Their policies are anti-human. Lara Logan’s impassioned testimony in Washington speaks for all of us as broadcasters in the media and for all consumers of information in the public.

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