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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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The UK Goes Full Orwell

August 30, 2025 Daniel Greenfield via Jihad Watch 1
Recent court hearings revealed that officials had stated that the real purpose was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”. There’s only one kind of censorship the British government is really into. Rather than blocking pornography, the Online Safety Act was used to block videos of parliamentary debates about the Muslim sex grooming gang crisis in the UK. Not only wasn’t the Online Safety Act protecting children from being exposed to sexual content, it was being used to censor revelations about the complicity of the authorities in the sexual abuse of children.

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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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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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EU Disinformation Code Takes Effect Amid Censorship Claims and Trade Tensions

July 6, 2025 Ramsha Jahangir via Tech Policy Press. 0
In May, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and four other congressmen sent a letter to EU Commissioner Michael McGrath. They argued that since the DSA requires platforms to systematically censor “disinformation” and most companies won’t create separate moderation systems for Europe and the rest of the world, the DSA could set de facto global censorship standards, restricting Americans’ online speech.

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