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When the Watchmen Are Silenced, the Gates Are Left Open

December 27, 2025 Martin Mawyer via the Patriot Majority Report 0
The Watchman’s role is moral, not political. He is accountable not for outcomes, but for truth. Every society depends on such Watchmen. They are the ones willing to speak uncomfortable truths before the threat is obvious, before it is too late to respond. Today, many of the most important Watchmen are inside the technology systems that increasingly govern our lives.

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Academia

School District Pays $650k to Teachers Fired for Opposing Gender Ideology Policy

December 13, 2025 Decision magazine Staff 2
“Educators are free to express opinions on fundamental issues of public concern—like gender identity education policy—that implicate the freedoms of teachers, parents, and students,” ADF Legal Counsel Matthew Hoffmann said. “The Grants Pass School District is taking the right step by acknowledging that teachers don’t give up their First Amendment rights when they set foot on school property. Public schools can’t retaliate against speech simply because they disagree with what’s said.”

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Censorship

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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Censorship

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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Censorship

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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