Legal

Free Speech

Christian Photographer Wins Free Speech Lawsuit against New York

August 13, 2025 Evelyn Elliott via The Daily Signal 1
“As the Supreme Court reaffirmed in 303 Creative, the government can’t force Americans to say things they don’t believe,” declared ADF Senior Counsel Bryan Neihart. “The U.S. Constitution protects Emilee’s freedom to express her own beliefs as she continues to serve clients of all backgrounds and beliefs. New Yorkers can now enjoy the freedom to create and express themselves, a freedom that protects all Americans regardless of their views.”

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Censorship

UK Gov’t ‘Disinfo’ Unit Shifts From Lockdown Dissenters To Spying On Mass Migration Critics

August 5, 2025 Steve Watson via Modernity.News 0
A shady government outfit in the UK that was previously tasked with identifying and monitoring COVID lockdown dissenters has been repurposed to spy on critics of mass migration and so called ‘asylum’ hotels, the Telegraph reports.The body, now known as the National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) has been lobbying social media companies such as TikTok to take action against users who post what it describes as “concerning narratives” about immigration and ‘two tier policing’. The unit operates within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and was previously known as the ‘Counter Disinformation Unit’ during the pandemic.

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Academia

Va. School Board Walks Back Trans Pronoun Policy

July 26, 2025 S.A. McCarthy via The Washington Stand 0
Despite the victory in Loudoun County, conservatives and Christians are still being persecuted for adhering to biological and biblical reality. Just last week, Louisiana pastor Luke Ash, lead pastor of Stevendale Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, was fired from his weekday job at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library when he refused to address a biologically female coworker using male pronouns.

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Censorship

Welcome to the Land of the Free… Until You Express an Opinion

July 19, 2025 Mike Fairclough via The Daily Sceptic 0
This book also shines a light on the agenda behind the bullshit. It’s no accident that almost every government in the world has turned on its citizens at the same time. Pushing harmful and illogical ideologies, punishing dissidents and seeding fear about everything from the weather through to the common cold. It’s all part of a vision which is laid out by the likes of the United Nations and which our Government has signed up to.

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Censorship

First Amendment Triumph: IRS Recognizes Pastors’ Right to Free Speech

July 12, 2025 Zach Smith via the Daily Signal 3
From the beginning, the Johnson Amendment was designed to stifle politically disfavored speech. After all, that may have been one of the motivating factors behind LBJ adding this statutory language. But what should have been clear all along has now been made explicit: Neither statutory language nor the IRS’ interpretation of it can trump the Constitution. Americans have a First Amendment right to freely exercise their faith and a First Amendment right to freely speak their minds, especially on religious and political issues and how the two arenas intersect.

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AI

EU’s Digital Services Act Threatens to Censor Americans on Social Media

July 10, 2025 Adina Portaru via The Daily Signal 0
The Digital Services Act compels very large online platforms—think Facebook, YouTube, and X—to remove so-called illegal content without delay. The problem? “Illegal” is defined not by clear, fixed principles, but by a moving target: whatever violates the law of any EU member state, now or in the future. That means a speech restriction passed in one small European country could trigger content takedowns across the entire internet—a lowest-common-denominator approach to censorship.

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