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On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) stated that there are too many students that have “un-American” views that it’s okay to use violence to shut down speech and “We need to have liberal and

TMZ has issued a grovelling apology alongside a clarification for “tone deaf laughter” heard during a broadcast that went live just moments before they announced Wednesday’s assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed deep sorrow over the death of Charlie Kirk, calling him a “lion-hearted friend of Israel” who was “murdered for speaking truth and defending freedom.”

Police should stop monitoring social media for alleged breaches of non-crime, free speech strictures and return to the fundamental tasks of catching criminals while protecting society, the head of the UK police watchdog said.

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.

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

Lucy Connolly, a British housewife who was handed a hefty prison sentence for sending a Tweet, is in talks with the Trump administration and is taking legal advice to sue over the circumstances of her incarceration, she said after being released from prison.

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.

China celebrated reports from South Korea indicating that police had opened an investigation into an anti-China conservative group.

VP kicked off his summer holiday by going fishing and warning Western nations against going down a “dark path” of censorship.

Holding universities accountable for rampant antisemitism is not an attack on free speech, but an encouragement of it, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said at the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) National Conservative Student Conference on Wednesday.

A British teacher was sacked from Preston College over supposed “Islamophobia” after criticising the jailing of a mother for posts she made on Facebook amid last year’s anti-mass migration riots.

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.

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.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Friday told Breitbart News that the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) are acting “exactly” like the Biden administration in pushing big tech platforms to censor free speech.

The Florida Department of Education on Friday sent a scathing letter to Alachua County School Board Chair Sarah Rockwell in response to her now-deleted social media post celebrating the death of Hulk Hogan as “one less MAGA” and the board’s attempt to silence a parent at Thursday’s school board meeting.

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.

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) has established a $1.3 million legal defense fund to help Christians against growing persecution in Europe. The Graham family is urging Christians around the world to speak out against assaults on their religious freedom.

U.S. President Donald Trump teased the British leader on the state of free speech in the UK, triggering a blurting response.

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.

A German court on Wednesday acquitted a satirist who was charged with having approved of an assassination attempt against Donald Trump during last year’s U.S. election campaign in a social media post and disturbed the public peace.

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”.

The communist regime in Cuba is reportedly processing a ten-year prison sentence for dissident Alexander Verdecia in response to messages he published on Facebook criticizing the regime this year, Martí Noticias reported on Tuesday.

Britain’s liberal-leaning judiciary has effectively created new blasphemy laws, free speech campaigners argued, after a man was convicted of a crime for setting fire to a Qur’an in London earlier this year.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced visa restrictions on foreign officials engaging in censorship of Americans.

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.”

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.

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.

The Daily Beast is mocking author Salman Rushdie, who was brutally attacked during a lecture in 2022, for canceling a commencement address at a California university after Muslim students objected to his speech.

The grandmother who was arrested for holding a sign near an abortion clinic in Scotland is warning about the assault on free speech.

Pope Leo XIV urged reporters to do their part in protecting the “precious gift of free speech” in his first address to the media.

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