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Self-censorship is ruining academia as university professors refrain from speaking freely out of fear, a University of Alabama earth science professor told Fox News on Monday.

Prof. Adam Candeub, who led President Trump’s efforts to reinterpret Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), Big Tech’s “get-out-jail-free card” in censorship lawsuits, warned the House Judiciary Committee that some bipartisan antitrust efforts could empower the federal government and Silicon Valley’s axis of censorship.

Thanks to leaks, lawsuits, the Twitter Files, and congressional inquiry, the sheer size and complexity of the “disinformation” industry is starting to be exposed.

A proposed bill in Florida is sparking controversy as it would require compensated bloggers who write about the governor or members of his cabinet to register with the state or face possible penalties, although the rule would not apply to establishment media.

A 59-year-old woman in Poland is facing up to five years in prison for posting pro-Russian and pro-Putin sentiments on Facebook last year.

The Parrots Go Bananas, a children’s book authored by former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, is not appearing in Amazon searches despite going live on the site two days ago, the book’s publisher tells Breitbart News.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. abruptly severed ties with the aggregate news company MxM News, an application co-founded by Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s son announced on Thursday. 

The top censor for rewriting Roald Dahl’s books described herself as “a non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist” with autism.

A Christian teacher has been accused of “misgendering” one of his “transgender” pupils during a misconduct hearing.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has announced the markup of bills aimed at preventing the government from colluding with private companies to censor American citizens.

“I got shadowbanned,” Jocko Willink, retired Navy SEAL and author, said in a clip from his Jocko Underground podcast published on Monday. He said his months-long shadowbanning — which he notes had since been reversed — on an unspecified “social media” platform was imposed after making the Biden administration “look like idiots” in relation to the White House’s management of withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Big Money Show,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) reacted to reports that the Department of Energy concluded that a lab leak is the most likely origin of the coronavirus by stating that the

Four pupils have been suspended from a high school in the UK after a Quran they purchased was said to have sustained a small tear.

Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novels have been “rewritten” to remove racist remarks ahead of a coming re-release, The Telegraph has reported.

British comedian-actor Ricky Gervais has taken aim at the perpetually aggrieved who are offended at some of the language used in Roald Dahl’s books and want to censor the celebrated children’s author.

In a craven attempt to quell outrage from conservatives, the publisher of Roald Dahl’s children’s books has announced that it will continue to print copies of his original works – but they will print versions with woke edits to the texts as well.

“…remain true to your calling, unimpeded by those who may wish to curb the freedom of your expression”, said the Queen.

A YouTube channel called “RutersXiaoFanQi” vanished from the platform on Monday after years of satirizing Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. Internet freedom advocates are concerned the channel was taken down by Chinese Communist Party censors who weaponized YouTube’s copyright infringement rules.

A senior official within the Irish government has discussed giving migrants special protections under the state’s coming hate speech laws.

The modern publisher of Roald Dahl has defended their censorship of his work, saying that it is necessary in order to protect young readers.

A steady backlash has been brewing against the censorship of British author Roald Dahl’s beloved classics after the publisher edited them.

Novelist Salman Rushdie led condemnations Monday of Roald Dahl’s children’s books being re-edited for a modern audience.

To the surprise of no one, an uncensored, unvandalized collection of Roald Dahl’s seminal works sits at number two on the Amazon sales chart.

Police in the Swedish city of Stockholm have imposed an indefinite ban on granting permission for protests involving the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an, supposedly due to concerns over threats to Swedish security.

A group of hackers linked to Sudan took credit for denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the websites of Swedish rail companies in revenge for burnings of the Islamic Qur’an.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki recently announced plans to step down as CEO and will be succeeded by the censorship-happy Neal Mohan. Wojcicki leaves a legacy of censoring independent creators and favoring corporate media.

MSNBC reportedly prohibited unfavorable coverage of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2014 without approval from the network’s president, according to a former MSNBC host who claimed most of the cable news staff are simply “reliable purveyors of whatever it is that that network wants to purvey.”

Authorities in Turkey revealed on Thursday that they had identified 613 people “accused of making provocative posts” on social media related to the devastating earthquake that hit that country this week, arresting 78 and starting legal actions against nearly 300.

The idea that free speech could succeed on Elon Musk’s Twitter is terrifying many within the European Union, an MEP serving in the bloc’s parliament has said.

Microsoft has stopped partnering with a foreign think tank, pending review, that was designed to blacklist conservative media. The tech company also reportedly removed negative flags for conservative media outlets.

The head of a mosque in the Swedish city of Gothenburg has called for a law to ban the destruction of holy books and texts in the aftermath of the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an.

A Canadian Catholic school pupil who was suspended last November for saying there are only two genders was arrested this week after attempting to return to class without renouncing his beliefs.

Former President Donald Trump can now post on Facebook and Instagram after having his accounts restored by Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe.

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “National Report,” Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC) argued that the main problem with social media censorship is the broad level of censorship discretion Twitter has and the “fickle” way in which it uses it and

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Michael Shellenberger, one of the reporters of the Twitter files, stated that it’s dangerous for members of Congress to demand censorship on social media platforms, especially since Congress has the

Officials within the European Union have heavily criticised Elon Musk’s Twitter for failing a so-called “disinformation” test set out by the bloc.