free speech - Page 23

The Boston Globe is organizing a “war of words” against President Donald Trump with “about 70” publications to combat what it describes as the president’s “dirty war against the free press.”

The Weekly Standard is calling for social media outlets to expand their blacklist of organizations like Infowars.

Senior Tory Brexiteer MPs on the right of the party are revolting against the politically correct investigation of Boris Johnson for joking about the burqa, with one threatening a “civil war”.

One of the UK’s most famous comedians has defended Boris Johnson’s “joke” about the Islamic burqa face veil, calling it “funny” and “an almost perfect simile”.

YouTube comic Markus ‘Count Dankula’ Meechan has vowed to defy the Scottish judiciary after his attempts to appeal a conviction for teaching his girlfriend’s pug dog to respond to “grossly offensive” commands as a joke.

Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget dismissed concerns of Silicon Valley trampling on free speech by deplatforming Infowars.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has urged citizens to defend free speech in the West after big tech firms allegedly coordinated to remove right wing voices, including Infowars and Tommy Robinson, from social media in a 12-hour period.

A staggering 40 percent of Americans could not name a single First Amendment right, according to a recent survey on the First Amendment.

Internet provocateur and InfoWars proprietor Alex Jones is being systematically excluded from social media platforms. This is, plainly, an attack on free speech.

Voice of America was in the middle of a telephone interview with dissident professor Wenguang Sun on Wednesday night when Chinese police burst into his house and dragged him away. His last words were, “I am entitled to express my opinion. This is my freedom of speech!”

Italy’s Minister for the Family has called for the repeal of a hate speech law, after aggression against a black athlete triggered widespread accusations of generalized Italian racism.

Tommy Robinson has revealed more details of his wrongful imprisonment to American conservative Tucker Carlson, describing how he was sited opposite the prison mosque and admitting he has been diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Unless Robinson is lying – which I doubt – this is the only logical conclusion to be drawn from the accounts he gave to Rebel Media’s Ezra Levant and Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. 

The Daily Mail’s David Martosko is demanding the White House “discourage” the American people’s right to protest against the powerful.

Tommy Robinson has described a Spartan existence in prison in an interview following his release, claiming he was kept locked in solitary confinement for 23 and a half hours at a time and had to subsist on one can of tuna a day.

Tory Remainer Damian Collins, chairman of Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport committee, is pushing for a raft of levies and restrictions on social media to prevent the spread of so-called ‘fake news’.

UKIP has accused Twitter of “shadow banning” Gerard Batten, the party’s leader and the elected representative for London in the European Parliament.

Easily the dumbest article I’ve read this year was one by a posh liberal columnist in a high end political journal explaining why freedom of speech wasn’t under threat in the West. Anyone who argued otherwise, he claimed, was a “grade A chocolate-coated plonker.”

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced this week he will end the equality on Twitter that angers the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman.

Michael Avenatti told CNN: “I’m all for freedom of the press and open access. But everything has its limits. My personal financial dealings and that of an old law firm are of no relevance and, you know, were not going to be leveraged by other people who are trying to get famous and take advantage of the situation.”

The NGO Human Rights Watch demanded the “immediate and unconditional release” this week of a Venezuelan man arbitrarily detained for tweeting socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s travel plans.

The judge who rushed to send activist Tommy Robinson to jail did not even watch the full video in which he supposedly breached contempt of court laws, his lawyers have claimed.

The British government has a new unit fighting “alternative news” websites, driving their stories down search engine results and pushing the official government narrative to the top.

A London Labour-controlled council removed an “offensive” satirical painting of Mayor Sadiq Khan in swimwear, just weeks before Khan’s Greater London Authority allowed a balloon depicting U.S. President Donald J. Trump as a baby to fly above the city in the name of free speech.

Senior British Judges have delayed a decision on an appeal by activist Tommy Robinson against a conviction for contempt of court, with his lawyers arguing there have been procedural “deficiencies” giving rise to “prejudice”.

Geert Wilders, who leads the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, spoke to a ‘Free Tommy Robinson’ rally in London over video link at the weekend, after the British government prevented him from attending in the flesh.

Donald Trump’s administration intervened on behalf of anti-grooming gangs campaigner Tommy Robinson and expressed concerns over his safety to Britain’s ambassador to the U.S., sources claim.

Police in Sadiq Khan’s London have used the Public Order Act to prevent a rally in support of U.S. President Donald Trump outside the American embassy, despite permitting a large, ill-tempered anti-Trump rally on Friday.

Cody Wilson’s Defense Distributed and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) reached a settlement with the Department of Justice allowing unfettered publication of 3D gun files and other information in a case centered on free speech.

The European Parliament has voted to delay new copyright laws that would have required the monitoring of all online uploads and could have effectively outlawed meme culture.

Uganda imposed a “social media tax” on citizens beginning July 1, triggering protests from human rights groups throughout the week that the tax represented an attack on freedom of speech.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is backing the ‘Save Your Internet’ campaign, revealing Tuesday how they are fighting the European Union’s (EU) latest attempt to “destroy the capacity for free speech” online, known as Article 13 and the ‘link tax’ Article 11.

In a remarkably honest exposé, the New York Times has acknowledged that “liberals who once championed expansive First Amendment rights are now uneasy about them” ever since conservatives realized they should apply to them as well.

“The globe is becoming chaotic and worldwide analysts are looking for reasons. Most agree one of the reasons is in the U.S.,” China’s state-run Global Times declared on Thursday, citing left-wing assaults on female members of the Trump administration as evidence for this conclusion.

President Donald Trump spoke to young people in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, urging them forward in their lives and careers.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Janus v. AFSCME on Wednesday, ruling 5-4 that public sector unions could no longer compel non-members to pay dues because it violated their First Amendment rights.