Free Speech

Ninth Circuit Issues Landmark Religious Liberty Decision

The court’s decision also reminds us of a critical truth: Faith is personal, but it is not private. Religious liberty doesn’t just protect our rights to believe in the privacy of our heads, our hearts, our homes, or our houses of worship. The First Amendment protects religious exercise, the active, practical living out of one’s deepest-held conviction, including the building and running of organizations designed to apply those convictions to the challenges and struggles of life.

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Censorship

Worst Censorship of 2025: Big Tech Targeted Right-Leaning Media, Trump, Faith and Life

While the Big Four digital news gatekeepers aggressively pushed elitist media, artificial intelligence chatbots tried to undermine President Donald Trump and his AI agenda. Meanwhile, platforms like Bluesky and YouTube suppressed posts from Vice President JD Vance and an interview of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, respectively. Other social media platforms censored faith and the pro-life message, with Instagram covering up the truth about abortion, and X suppressing Bible verses and anti-terrorism messages from the Israeli government.

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Censorship

U.S. Sanctions Starmer-Linked ‘Radical Activist’ NGO Boss at Centre of Censorship Scandal Against Breitbart

Imran Ahmed, a British citizen and the founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), the notorious censorship and deplatforming outfit which defined its central mission as “Kill Musk’s Twitter” and is closely linked to the inner circle of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, has been sanctioned by the United States government.

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Academia

Letitia James Sued for Threatening School Boards That Permit Free Speech on LGBT Issues

In other words, the Attorney General and Commissioner of Education … require school board members across New York to self-censor and shut down parent speech that advocates for their core values and for children’s privacy, safety, and opportunity. If school board members and parents disagree with Defendants’ viewpoint, they cannot speak. If they do speak, school board members risk being removed from their elected offices, and school board members and parents alike risk being publicly and falsely branded a bully and harasser of children.

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AI

We Must Resist The Rise Of A Global Censorship Regime

Further, citizens in countries outside of the E.U., like the United States, are at risk of facing new levels of censorship, because the DSA applies to large online digital platforms and search engines accessed within the E.U. but that have a global presence. It explicitly states its extraterritorial applicability as it covers platforms used by people “that have their place of establishment or are located in the Union, irrespective of where the providers of those intermediary services [the platforms] have their place of establishment.”

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Academia

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

“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

Clandestine Campaign To Defund ZeroHedge, The Federalist & Breitbart Traced To Kier Starmer Operation

Now, thanks to a new book by investigative journalist Paul Holden that builds on reporting by Matt Taibbi, Paul Thacker and others, we learn that the origin of these campaigns, launched years before the pandemic, was none other than UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s political machine, which began targeting left-wing outlets speaking critically of Starmer such as The Canary, and then went after conservative outlets in America – just in time for the 2020 US election.

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Censorship

The Military vs. Technocracy’s ‘Science Of Social Engineering’ – ‘We Are Everywhere’

“The art of PSYOP relies on persuasion rather than physical force. The tools of the trade are logic, fear, desire and other mental factors used to evoke specific emotions, attitudes and behaviors,” according to a U.S. Army report. “The ultimate objective is to persuade enemy, neutral and friendly nations and forces to take favorable actions toward the U.S. and its allies.”

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