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On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “11th Hour,” Staff Writer for The New Yorker, MSNBC Political Contributor, and Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb responded to a question on how the Biden administration pressuring social media platforms to suppress certain speech

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that the Biden administration did engage in government cancel culture when it came to coronavirus and social media by suppressing “some of the things that we now know are

Former Vice President Kamala Harris denounced the Trump administration Thursday for ABC’s decision to cancel Jimmy Kimmel’s show — but she demanded that Twitter ban President Donald Trump in 2019.

A conservative Harris County parents group reported that a left-leaning group published the social media content of high school students who are organizing a Turning Point USA(TPUSA) chapter in the Spring Branch school district. The leftist group, “Be the Change SBISD,” reportedly sent messages to its more than 700 members calling for action against sponsoring teachers and the students.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) reacted to Jimmy Kimmel’s indefinite suspension by stating that “we have spent years with the House Republicans, especially, waxing on about the censorship by Joe Biden on social media platforms,”

The far-left France in Revolt party is reportedly threatening to sue a publisher in an attempt to block the release of a book by a Syrian journalist documenting their ties to radical Islamist groups seeking to institute Sharia.

The young protesters who overthrew the government of Communist Party leader K.P. Sharma Oli last week also made a point of storming the Communist Party headquarters and throwing down its infamous hammer and sickle flag.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage warned the U.S. Congress that censorship laws in Britain will have a stifling effect on free speech throughout the West and urged the American government to pressure London to adhere to its values of liberty.

Member of Parliament Nigel Farage is among the witnesses testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Europe’s assault on free speech on Wednesday, September 3.

Father Ted creator Graham Linehan is reportedly considering suing London’s Metropolitan Police after he was arrested this week by “armed police” over tweets criticising transgenderism.

Award-winning Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan said that he was arrested in London over posts on social media criticising transgenderism.

Dictator Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Tibet — only his second in over 12 years as ruler of the Chinese Communist empire — to mark the 60th anniversary of China’s conquest of the Himalayan nation on Wednesday.

The government of Qatar has blocked access to the popular gaming platform Roblox after a storm of complaints on social media about the safety of children playing the games. 

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has reportedly backed down completely and will now “ensure” that a documentary about the Hamas terror attack of October 7, 2023, will be shown.

The U.S. State Department has found that the human rights situation in the United Kingdom has deteriorated over the past year, pointing to the growing level of censorship from the government.

Officials in the southern Chinese city of Jiangyou were surprised by the size and intensity of protests after a video of a 14-year-old girl being violently harassed by school bullies went viral.

The government of South korea revealed on Sunday that leftist President Lee Jae-myung had proposed at a recent cabinet meeting a massive initiative to silence alleged “fake news” on YouTube.

Thousands of supporters of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro peacefully marched in 62 Brazilian cities on Sunday.

More than eight in ten Germans said that they believe people are afraid to express their full opinions amid an increasingly censorious political climate in the country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a law that criminalizes searches for “extremist” content on the internet, with fines of up to 5,000 rubles ($64) for each violation.

Canadian churches are being fined thousands of dollars and harassed by leftist protesters for hosting performances by Christian singer and conservative activist Sean Feucht, who said he has been labeled an “extremist” for his religious beliefs.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) this week released the “UK Censorship Files,” in which he detailed how the United Kingdom (UK) government “tried to censor criticism” of immigration during “large-scale riots in Augusts 2024.”

A vulnerability in Google’s search engine reportedly allowed individuals to maliciously remove specific web pages from search results, potentially enabling targeted suppression of information.

The leftist Labour Party government’s technology minister has accused those in favour of repealing the censorious Online Safety Act, such as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, as being “on the side” of pedophiles and “extreme pornographers”.

The Labour Party government in Britain may consider banning VPNs, according to unearthed plans made before the implementation of the controversial Online Safety Act.

U.S. President Donald Trump warned UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer that it would be a “mistake” for the British government to censor his Truth Social platform under the recently enacted Online Safety Act.

British users of the X social media platform have reported being prevented from viewing anti-mass migration protests after the Online Safety Act censorship law came into effect for social media companies on Friday.

Dr. Francis Collins, who was one of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s many COVID conspiracist cohorts, joined Stephen Colbert Wednesday and insisted that America needs more censorship to end “dangerous” freedom of speech and to reverse the “trust deficit” in the wake of the coronavirus debacle.

The Irish government is reportedly set to reject demands from the European Union to implement hate speech legislation after Dublin abandoned plans to do so last year.

In a significant blow to the censorship apparatus in Germany, a court has lifted the ban imposed on the Compact magazine by former leftist Interior Minister Nancy Faeser for supposedly spreading right-wing “extremism”.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson on Monday announced that, as part of the FTC’s approval of a merger between two of the largest advertising companies, the advertising giants agreed not to collude or discriminate based on political or ideological viewpoints.

The FTC has approved Omnicom Group’s acquisition of IPG after the advertising giants agreed not to collude on politically motivated ad boycotts to censor conservative viewpoints.

Steve Bannon’s WarRoom podcast has been reinstated to Spotify after being blacklisted by the European-owned platform for nearly five years.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up the case of a Massachusetts student whose middle school barred him from wearing a shirt stating “There are only two genders.”