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The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee holds a hearing on the Biden administration’s pressure on big tech companies and social media platforms to censor Americans on Wednesday, October 8.

A massive Internet blackout struck Afghanistan on September 29, evidently imposed by the Taliban regime to “prevent immoral activities.”

Microsoft hosts ready-to-use political censorship software on its Azure Marketplace in China, further evidence of how the company has aided the development and implementation of the country’s repressive system of political control.

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger told Tucker Carlson during Monday’s episode of The Tucker Carlson Show that anyone can easily look up a list of Wikipedia’s blacklisted sources. Breitbart News features prominently on the list of media outlets that users are forbidden from citing when editing articles on the leftist “encyclopedia.”

James Baker, the FBI’s top lawyer during Russiagate and later a key operative inside Twitter’s pre-Musk  censorship apparatus, has resurfaced on the board of a fresh institutional effort to lock down online speech.

During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Vice President JD Vance argued that FCC Chairman “Brendan Carr put out a couple of tweets…That does not constitute government coercion.” Vance began by saying, “I’d

Neon has pulled its body horror film “Together” from theaters in China after a local distributor censored a same-sex wedding scene.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) reacted to Alphabet saying that the Biden administration pushed it to censor content by stating that “something that we should all be very much concerned about is misinformation. There’s

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) stated that the Biden administration’s alleged pressuring of Google to censor content related to the coronavirus pandemic is different from Jimmy Kimmel because “these weren’t jokes. This wasn’t a TV

“We’re essentially doing Hamilton three times a year for fifth graders — it’s hard to imagine anyone would object to this.”

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 stated that Jimmy Kimmel was “wrong” in his comments on Charlie Kirk’s assassin, but people “have the right to be wrong, or to have any opinion you want. That’s what

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 Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “11th Hour,” MSNBC Legal Analyst Joyce Vance argued that “Democrats’ supposed weaponization of the FCC” “was an entirely different situation involving trying to prevent the spread of disinformation on social media platforms.” Vance said, “Well,

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.

Lucy Connolly, a British mother who was jailed for over a year for a Tweet, said that she plans to work with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK during an appearance at the populist party’s annual conference on Saturday.

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.