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German ‘Anti-Greta’ Activist Seeks Asylum In The US After Antifa Death Threats

November 7, 2025 Tyler Durden via Zero Hedge 3
“people have forgotten the difference between hate and opinion.” For those who cannot tell the difference, the solution is just to stay silent or risk a knock on the door. It is the very chilling effect reflected in the recent polling showing that most Germans are now uncomfortable sharing their views in public. According to a poll of German citizens. Only 18% of Germans feel free to express their opinions in public. 59% of Germans did not even feel free to express themselves in private among friends. And just 17% felt free to express themselves online.

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Obama: Let’s ‘Experiment’ With Government-Censored ‘Diversity’ of Opinion in Journalism, Or Something

October 30, 2025 Ed Morrissey via Hot Air 2
“Part of what we’re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how we use social media in ways that reaffirm facts and separate facts from opinion. We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts. That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require some government regulatory constraints…”

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Switzerland Goes to War Against Free Speech: Man Jailed for Claiming that Skeletons Reflect Gender

October 25, 2025 Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org 4
The case is only the latest example of how free speech is in a free fall in Europe. I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum, where European leaders gathered in one of the most strikingly anti-free speech conferences I have attended. This year’s forum embraced the slogan “A New World Order with European Values.” That “new world order” is based on an aggressive anti-free speech platform that has been enforced for years by the European Union.

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Google Tells All on Biden Admin.’s Digital Censorship Pressures against Conservative Critics

September 26, 2025 Mark Tapscott via The Washington Stand 2
“The committee’s oversight has revealed that YouTube, a subsidiary of Alphabet, was a direct participant in the federal government’s censorship regime. In particular, the committee obtained documents showing that the federal government successfully pressured YouTube to censor certain lawful content, including content that did not violate YouTube’s content moderation policies. Throughout the previous Congress, the committee expressed concern over YouTube’s censorship of conservatives and political speech, including censorship of FBI whistleblowers who testified before the Committee,” Jordan told Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai in the March 6 subpoena cover letter.

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What We Can Learn From the UK’s Disregard for Free Speech

September 23, 2025 Thomas Jipping and Marina Alexis via the Daily Signal 1
On Sept. 10, Charlie Kirk was assassinated for exercising that freedom. A week later came Constitution Day, marking the anniversary of our national charter’s completion. Four years after that completion came the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment and its protection of free speech. We may have separated from Great Britain to prioritize individual liberty but as a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing explored, developments there could still undermine the freedom of speech here.

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