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Baroness Claire Fox told Breitbart that free speech advocates in the West need to think of new approaches to fight for free speech.

Veteran comedian Dave Chappelle’s comedy special “The Closer” — which calls out woke trans activists and #MeToo feminists — has a 96 percent positive audience score on the leftist film and television review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. Meanwhile, the site’s professional critic class have left negative reviews.

Despite massive outside pressure from activists, NASA has rejected calls to rename the James Webb Space Telescope.

NBA great Shaquille O’Neal no longer wants to be called a “celebrity,” referring to them as “crazy” people. Speaking to the New York Post, the former Lakers champion center said he now wants to be known for his acts of kindness rather than his fame.

Actor Johnny Depp told a film festival audience this week “no one is safe, not one of you,” because of cancel culture. It only takes one sentence, the Pirates of the Caribbean star said, to have the “carpet pulled” out from under you.

Former President Donald Trump reacted to Ohio State Senator and anti-Trump politician Matt Dolan declaring his U.S. Senate bid on Monday, stating, “I know of at least one person in the race who I won’t be endorsing,” as “the Republican Party has too many RINOs.”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher lamented that snitching on people has become bipartisan and said he doesn’t want to live in a world “where you can’t trust your neighbors and you’re always looking over your

By a wide margin, the next generation of Americans is widely opposed to “cancel culture,” or politically correct censorship and ostracization, even more so than members of the Boomer and Gen X generations, leaving Millennials as the only generation more likely to view cancel culture positively or neutrally than negatively.

Close allies of Vice President Kamala Harris are now trying to profit from helping corporate America negotiate the woke culture while working to diversify their businesses as added insurance.

Social media giant Twitter reportedly plans to introduce a number of new privacy-related features, including one that would allow users to hide their old tweets. Twitter’s privacy changes come on the heels of the increasingly common scenario in which a user of the platform is canceled for posts made up to a decade ago on the platform.

Actor and comedian David Spade slammed the woke mob and those who dig through people’s lives “to make sure sure they take them down.” 

DeBary Diner owner Angie Ugarte alleges she received death threats after telling supporters of President Joe Biden that they are unwelcome in her restaurant due to the president’s fatally botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Veteran late-night TV host and comedian Jay Leno says he will be dropping jokes that may run afoul of the #MeToo movement, stating, “you either change with the times or you die.”

Acclaimed screenwriter and director Paul Schrader has condemned woke cancel culture, calling it “infectious” and comparing it to the coronavirus Delta variant.

Disgraced Joe Biden campaigner Chrissy Teigen — who was exposed for her years of online abuse earlier this year — talked “cancel culture” on Thursday in Beverly Hills, California, where she told reporters, “we have to forgive people.”

Actor and comedian John Cleese’s upcoming show “Cancel Me” will confront “cancel culture” and explore “why a new ‘woke’ generation is trying to rewrite the rules on what can and can’t be said.”

Comedy Central removed the “Diversity Day” episode of the hit comedy series of The Office’s from a Sunday marathon airing of the long-running mockumentary series. The episode is just latest casualty of an increasingly censorious woke era, as it satirized contemporary corporate “diversity and inclusion” policies.

Actor and comedian David Spade warned in a recent interview that wokeness is killing comedy. “One wrong move and you’re canceled,” the “Grown Ups” star and “Saturday Night Live” alum said of being a comedian in the age of cancel culture.

Former Misfits singer Michale Graves told Breitbart News that four venues have canceled shows for his upcoming American Prayer Tour after being pressured by woke leftists offended that he is an outspoken conservative. Michale Graves says four venues have informed him that he can no longer perform at their establishments due to fear of backlash from leftists, who have contacted the venues to complain.

HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher and blogger Andrew Sullivan slammed newsrooms for caving to “woke” Internet mobs Friday on Maher’s show.

Tucker Carlson said Simon & Schuster, the publisher of his new book. was “disgusting” in its cancellation of Sen. Josh Hawley’s book.

The ad boycott launched against Nigel Farage and GB News is likely to backfire, as a poll found that many would be likely to watch.

Referring to Indian food as “curry” is a racist relic of British colonialism, according to woke academics and food influencers.

Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s stopped advertisements on the centre-right upstart GB News network after a woke pressure campaign against prime time host Nigel Farage, despite his show being a ratings success.

A Swiss PhD student has alleged that he was removed from the doctoral programme after tweeting critical sentiments about Communist China.

Former congressional candidate Matt Mowers on Friday attacked New Hampshire Democrats for attempting to cancel the state’s motto, “Live Free or Die.”

Corporate and political elites use “fact-checker” organizations such as NewsGuard to undermine dissident news media outlets, explained Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit in a conversation about digital censorship streamed on Tuesday.

Pop star Justin Bieber apologized after propping up the music of country star Morgan Wallen, who faced a mass cancellation attempt earlier this year after a camera caught him uttering the n-word to one of his white friends after a night of partying.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher reacted to the firings of Olympic officials over their past statements and actions by stating that this is “a purge. It’s a mentality that belongs in Stalin’s Russia.” Maher stated,

At Palm Spring High School in California, Indians will remain the school’s nickname — a decision okayed by officials and the Cahuilla Tribe.

Pop star Camila Cabello took to Twitter Saturday to defend one of her backup dancers, who had come under fire from a cancel mob for allegedly wearing “brownface” during a TV performance.

President Donald Trump criticized the left’s growing attempt to infect American institutions with “woke politics” in a speech on Saturday.

Disgraced Joe Biden backer and former model Chrissy Teigen should help anti-bullying efforts instead of complaining about being in a “cancel club,” suggested model Courtney Stodden, who Teigen told to kill herself when she was a minor.

Breitbart News Editor-in-Chef Alex Marlow urged young conservatives to combat “cancel culture” with courage during a speech at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit on Sunday in Tampa, Florida.

“TikTok superstar Addison Rae’s fans have launched a campaign to cancel her after she excitedly greeted Donald Trump.

Lee’s Summit R-7 School District Board (LSR-7) in Missouri has decided that a teacher who quoted a racial slur during a disciplinary process uttered by a student will keep his job. The School District’s superintendent had recommended that the teacher, who has been on the job for almost 30 years, be fired.