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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.

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 Trump administration reportedly dispatched a team to meet with victims of Britain’s draconian speech restrictions amid growing concerns over the state of liberty in the United Kingdom.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into the leftist pro-censorship organization Media Matters for alleged coordination with other media watchdog groups accused by X owner Elon Musk of coordinating advertiser boycotts of the social media platform.

An English mother who was sentenced to nearly three years in prison over a social media post in the wake of the horrific murder of three children in Southport has been denied early release by the Court of Appeal.

A retired British police officer was arrested for “thought crime” comments criticising the spread of antisemitism in the country.

Indian and Pakistani forces traded artillery and small-arms fire across the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed province of Kashmir on Thursday night.

South Korea’s data privacy watchdog agency, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), said on Thursday that China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) transferred user data to companies in China and the United States without obtaining proper consent.

American support for the restriction of “false” information online, even if it restricts freedom of expression, has dropped, according to a Pew Research poll.

Three pro-democracy banners were hung from an overpass in the Chinese city of Chengdu on Tuesday morning, in a daring echo of the famed “Bridge Man” protest in 2022.

Free speech platform Gab has blocked its services in the UK after the government “demanded we hand over private information,” according to CEO Andrew Torba.

Germany has been accused of violating basic tenets of Western values yet again, as a news editor was convicted by a court for posting a meme mocking the government’s “hatred” of free speech.

The Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution holds a hearing on collusion between the government, Big Tech, and the media to censor Americans on Tuesday, March 25.

In the wake of Conor McGregor announcing his intention to run for president, Irish prosecutors are reportedly considering charging the UFC legend over allegedly “inciting hatred” amid the 2023 Dublin riots.

The Turkish government on Thursday announced 37 people were arrested for “provocative” social media posts related to Wednesday’s arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and chief political rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Britain’s speech police have come under fire yet again after they showed up at a grandmother’s doorstep to give her “advice” after criticising left-wing politicians on social media.

The Federal Trade Commission is launching an investigation into “un-American” big tech censorship, soliciting feedback from the American public about how their speech has been stifled by America’s most dominant tech companies.

Leftist echo chamber Reddit is embracing the French revolution in an attempt to resist President Donald Trump. The platform notorious for its censorship of conservatives is allowing posts calling for violent political revolution in the style of the French “Reign of Terror” to spread virally in the early weeks of the Trump administration.

Elon Musk’s X social media firm announced it has launched legal cases in Germany against government “overreach” against the platform’s users’ privacy and freedom of expression.

American broadcaster CBS followed German police as they raided homes for speech crimes, such as posting a “racist cartoon” on the internet after U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticised censorship across Europe.

In vindication of U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s warnings of encroaching authoritarianism in Britain and Europe, a report has found that hundreds of people in the United Kingdom have been charged under the 2023 Online Safety Act, including for spreading “fake news.”

The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the “censorship-industrial complex” on Wednesday, February 12.

The leftist British government is reportedly willing to walk back some of draconian online censorship rules to avoid falling into a trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Chairman of Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, is demanding accountability from Facebook over allegations of censoring posts and groups related to those who claim to have injuries from  coronavirus vaccines, Breitbart News first learned exclusively.

As Microsoft courts major victories in Washington including OpenAI’s Project Stargate support and a potential TikTok acquisition, a new report from the Foundation for Freedom Online reveals the tech giant has maintained controversial censorship partnerships and initiatives from the Biden era, including ties to  NewsGuard, the establishment pro-censorship group operating a news blacklist against conservative media.

Comedian and provocateur extraordinaire Katie Hopkins said that America’s ordinary men and women are leading the revolt against the censorious left throughout the Western World by electing Donald Trump as president.

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek has rocketed in popularity, but is heavily censored on issues like Tiananmen Square and Taiwan’s status as a country.

A leaked Home Office report has called on the UK government to revamp efforts to crack down on so-called “non-crime hate incidents” to counter extremism within the country. 

On MSNBC on Monday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) argued that democracy is unraveling and one example was Facebook ending fact-checking and argued that people kill democracy by controlling the media and Democrats have “logistical work to do to make sure

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while he agrees with President Joe Biden’s oligarchy warning from his Farewell Address, it is a little odd since the Biden administration pushed tech companies to censor speech.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” comedian Larry Wilmore argued that “the thing that should protect us from disinformation and misinformation on social media should be our brains and our common sense.” And he doesn’t get why people believe

The only “risk to the electoral processes” that I see in Europe, is the EU “interfering” in elections because Brussels does not like the outcome and claims it has to protect “democracy” against the voters.