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Freedom of expression, whether in speech or in the press, is a key indicator of a country’s health, Pope Francis told journalists in the Vatican Saturday.

Police in China on Monday arrested a man and detained him for ten days for the “crime” of “picking quarrels and making trouble” by mocking public officials with the names he gave his dogs.

Facebook has censored a pro-life ad campaign in Ireland on the grounds that the image of an unborn child qualifies as “graphic” or “violent” imagery.

Internet giant Google expressed concerns on Thursday that Singapore’s new censorship law, the “Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act,” could stifle innovation by threatening online media platforms with huge fines for carrying content the government decides is “fake news.”

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson opened his show with a reaction to Facebook’s banning of so-called “dangerous” entities. The Fox News Channel host offered a question to his viewers, which was as to where

President Trump retweeted a Breitbart News story about Facebook’s blacklist of prominent conservatives including Paul Joseph Watson. Good.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new law on Wednesday that paves the way for Russia to isolate its Internet from the rest of the world. The so-called “sovereign Internet” law is billed as a means of making the Russian Internet more “independent,” but independence will be in short supply as Putin’s authoritarian government tightens its grip on cyberspace.

The nation’s largest group of pro-life students has released an interactive map that illustrates attacks on free speech on college and university campuses throughout the country.

Williams College is planning to review and revise its policies due to student outrage over a faculty petition to adopt principles in favor of free speech on campus. Student protesters claim that “free speech harms” minorities and therefore, must be curtailed.

A Connecticut faith-based pregnancy care center has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city of Hartford over its ordinance that is compelling the pro-life ministry to disclose whether its staff holds medical licenses.

The U.K.’s mandatory age-verification system for online pornography requires proof-of-age via passports, driver’s licenses, or credit cards.

Officials who oversee Seattle’s transit system moved to ban political, religious, and other ads from its facilities and public transportation vehicles soon after Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) prevailed in a freedom of speech lawsuit against the city, earning the right to run FBI’s Most Wanted terrorist posters, Breitbart News has learned.

Chinese government censors have shut down dozens of major social media accounts for publishing “politically harmful information,” the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday. Some of these accounts had millions of followers.

Actor and comedian Kevin Hart told Joe Rogan on Saturday that efforts to censor comedy along “politically correct” lines amount to a “push to destroy,” offering his remarks on the latter’s eponymous podcast.

The British government has published an Online Harms White Paper outlining a series of sweeping new controls on the Internet, which will see social media firms required to police users’ actions or face stiff penalties.

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen warned an audience at a speech commemorating the nation’s Freedom of Expression Day on Sunday that China is actively attempting to “use our democracy against us” through misinformation campaigns designed to curb the nation’s sovereignty.

The EU has set up its own “fact checking” service in order to combat the spread of so-called “fake news” ahead of May’s European elections.

Australia’s parliament on Wednesday passed a strict new social media law that could fine tech companies, or even jail their executives, if they allow violent material to be posted on their sites or fail to remove it quickly enough after complaints are filed. An op-ed at Sky News on Thursday conceded that China might have had the right idea all along about censoring and controlling the Internet.

Robert Epstein found that Google “suppresses [and] depresses websites such as Breitbart News” in pushing its political left-wing biases.

DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealanders are debating the limits of free speech after their chief censor banned a 74-page manifesto written by the man accused of slaughtering 50 people at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.

An Egpytian singer who made a joke about the lack of free speech in her homeland has been told she can no longer perform there.

BERLIN (AP) – Tens of thousands of people have marched in cities across Germany to protest planned European Union copyright reforms that they fear will lead to online censorship.

“If a college or a university does not allow you to speak, we will not give them money, it’s very simple,” Trump said. 

The White House event is scheduled to begin at 3:15 p.m. EST. 

“The president strongly supports free speech,” a senior administration told reporters during a briefing on the upcoming order.

Slate has taken up the mantra of collective guilt, insisting in an article this week that “all white Australians” are somehow implicated in the recent Christchurch mosque shootings.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry told Breitbart News that attorneys general across America — both Democrat and Republican — are considering “all actions,” including the use of existing antitrust law, to curb the growing power held by technology firms such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter. 

President Donald Trump says he expects “to do a very big number” regarding an anticipated executive order on free speech on college campuses potentially next week.

The Met Police have changed their narrative of the arrest of a Christian street preacher last month after an investigation was launched into their conduct.

British Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright appeared to threaten heavier regulation of streaming services like Amazon Prime and Netflix to “encourage” them to “reflect and represent” the “full diversity” of the United Kingdom, like the BBC.