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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has condemned using the term ‘snowflake’ to refer to “younger generations” who are concerned about “the safety and protection of minorities”.

The Stanford University school Senate denied funding requested by the College Republicans for former Vice President Mike Pence to speak on campus.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), with the help of “anti-racist and language experts,” compiled a list of “offensive” terms.

(AFP) — An episode of The Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is missing from the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong, adding to concerns about mainland China-style censorship in the city.

The more disgusting, venal, incompetent, and destructive our political class grows, the more it wants to clamp down on our ability to tell us what we think of it. Funny that.

A homeowner in Seagrove Beach, Florida, is in the middle of a controversy with Walton County Code Enforcement officials, WMBB reported Monday.

Twitter trolls and purveyors of “disinformation” will potentially face jail time in the UK under a series of anti-free speech measures.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) responded to concerns that she just wants Facebook to censor people on the right more and will end up hurting free speech with her push for greater regulation of

Amnesty International (AI) announced on Monday it will close its office in Hong Kong by the end of the year.

A surgeon in Minnesota was fired after telling a local school board meeting about parents’ right to make health decisions for their children.

An advisory panel of the Japanese Ministry of Justice approved a plan on Thursday that seeks to “introduce prison terms as part of tougher penalties for online insults in Japan,” Kyodo News reported.

Boris Johnson’s government is claiming to “back freedom of speech to the hilt” even as it moves to prosecute tech bosses who fail to censor “foul content”.

A Christian pastor who grew up under the tyranny of the Soviet Union in Poland is now banned from traveling outside of the Canadian province where he lives, and the judge who heard the case also ordered Artur Pawlowski to read in public a prepared statement on the coronavirus.

Caving to the mutiny people have pushed within his own company, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos now claims he “screwed up” when defending comedian Dave Chappelle against the 2SLGBTQQIA+ activists outraged over his explosive stand-up special “The Closer.”

Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) have presented a bill to the Spanish parliament that aims to end anonymity on social media.

A Salon article declared the “honeymoon” between the press and the president “over” as it accused the Biden administration of frequently preventing President Biden from speaking with the press due to fears of what they will ask and how he will respond, while claiming the president was failing due to his “tightly controlled relationship to the media” as he is “walled off by advisers who won’t let him talk.”

Members of the Swedish Muslim Nyans Party have called for a sculpture by recently deceased Mohammed cartoonist Lars Vilks to be burned.

A speech by former Cabinet minister and Tory leadership contender David Davis MP against vaccine passports has been wiped from YouTube for “contradict[ing] expert consensus”.

French Communist Party (PCF) presidential candidate Fabien Roussel has called for those convicted of racism or hate crimes to be ineligible for public office.

Baroness Claire Fox told Breitbart that free speech advocates in the West need to think of new approaches to fight for free speech.

The French Ministry of National Education proposes holding tributes in schools to the memory of teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded in the street last year by a radical Islamic terrorist.

The Charity Commission has accused an Islamic charity which doxxed a British teacher who showed his class a caricature of the Muslim prophet Mohammed of inflaming tensions and risking the safety of the teacher.

Oxford University’s Worcester College issued an apology this week after the school hosted a Christian conference, one of whose speakers assists people dealing with gender confusion.

A billboard owner in France has been fined 10,000 for “publicly insulting” President Macron for depicting the French leader as Adolph Hitler.

A British police officer is facing racial misconduct charges for joking “maybe I should start eating curry” on hearing of a South Asian man aged 105.

Nigel Farage has hailed as a “victory for free speech” the British broadcasting regulator clearing TV show host Piers Morgan for criticising Meghan Markle and saying he did not believe the Duchess of Sussex was telling the truth when she accused the Royal Family of neglecting her mental health and that a family member was racist.

Pressure is rising in the Church of Sweden to force priests to conduct same-sex marriages, ahead of internal elections in September.

The Guardian newspaper covered up an academic calling a black conservative political commentator a race traitor, Breitbart London can reveal.

An academic has argued that her firing was discriminatory as “black radicalism” and Critical Race Theory (CRT) should be protected beliefs.

Less than a third of voters believe Americans have true free speech, according to a Rasmussen poll released on Friday.

A judge ruled that an atheist train operator has a right to his beliefs after he was fired for critical comments about Islamic states.

LONDON (AP) – British police said Thursday they have made 11 arrests in connection with the online racial abuse of England soccer players following their team’s loss to Italy in the final of the European Championship last month.

José Revilla-Albo, the proprietor of Miami’s Café Papillon, told the Spanish news network América Teve on Wednesday that he would not back down after the building hosting his restaurant had requested he take down an anti-communist poster featuring profanity.

Charlie Hebdo stabbing victim Hatun Tash said that Speakers’ Corner has become unsafe for Christians as a result of the “Muslim mob”

The High Court of Hong Kong on Tuesday handed down the first guilty verdict under the draconian “national security law” that Beijing imposed last Summer to crush the pro-democracy movement and criminalize dissent.

Counter-terrorism police are investigating a stabbing in Speakers’ Corner in which a woman wearing a Charlie Hebdo t-shirt was stabbed.