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Vietnamese state media reported the communist government is set to issue an amendment to the telecommunications law that requires social media users to register their identities with law enforcement.

A 77-year-old man has been convicted in a French court of disrespecting the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron.

A Canadian judge on Tuesday found Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski guilty of “mischief” for urging truckers to continue a 2022 protest that blocked the main border crossing in Alberta for two weeks.

Donald Trump Jr. has branded recent pushes to establish hate speech laws in Western nations as being “insane”.

Wikipedia could be banned from the UK as a result of impending censorship legislation, the charity that hosts the website has warned.

Elon Musk has condemned forthcoming hate speech laws in one EU country as being a “massive attack against freedom of speech”.

A senior EU commissioner has said that she is “disappointed” by Twitter’s lack of censorship amid the bloc’s efforts to crack down on free speech online.

European parliamentarians have condemned the UK for arresting a critic of Emmanuel Macron under anti-terror legislation.

UK police have reportedly used the country’s anti-terror laws to arrest a French publisher accused of being involved in protests against Emmanuel Macron.

A number of major bomb threats against Chinese embassies were made in a journalist’s name after she published an article detailing the intimidation faced by critics of the Chinese Communist Party.

Legislation has been introduced that would enact safe zones, banning protests within 100 metres of a drag show, with fines up to $25,000.

The  Democrat-dominated Connecticut legislature is seeking to create a censorship board through Senate Bill 6410 to regulate online speech.

Richard Dawkins left an interviewer stunned after refusing to give any comments regarding radical Islam and the attempted assassination of author Salman Rushdie.

Posie Parker, a women’s rights campaigner branded a ‘TERF’ by transgender activists and their allies, said police told her she was “lucky to be alive” after being attacked at a rally in New Zealand.

Authoritarian governments across the world are looking to censor the internet in order to “control people”, a senior official from ICANN has said.

Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez issued a new statement addressing the disruption of Fifth Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech, and the next steps that the law school will take.

A Christian teacher has been fired from his post after claiming that “homosexuality is invading the church” on social media.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) asked Janet Yellen about censorship of online communications to prevent a “social media internet-based bank run.”

Self-censorship is ruining academia as university professors refrain from speaking freely out of fear, a University of Alabama earth science professor told Fox News on Monday.

The 50th edition of the annual global survey by Freedom House found freedom declining again worldwide for the 17th year in a row, driven by events such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, coups, and attacks on “democratic institutions.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $5.5 million campaign to fight “disinformation” amid claims that his party benefitted from CCP election meddling.

Populist French Senator Stéphane Ravier faces a criminal trial after publishing a tweet in January of last year in which he stated that “immigration kills the youth of France.”

A 59-year-old woman in Poland is facing up to five years in prison for posting pro-Russian and pro-Putin sentiments on Facebook last year.

A Christian teacher has been accused of “misgendering” one of his “transgender” pupils during a misconduct hearing.

Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novels have been “rewritten” to remove racist remarks ahead of a coming re-release, The Telegraph has reported.

Cancel culture is both “good for democracy” and a “way for a new generation of people to practice free speech,” according to a recent Rolling Stone piece celebrating the ostracization of those “guilty” of holding controversial positions, while assuring the practice is “here to stay.”

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), an agency best known for maintaining a list of humanity’s most valuable cultural heritage sites, demanded the establishment of “global guidelines for the regulation of social media” in a conference on Wednesday to address alleged “disinformation.”

Police in the Swedish city of Stockholm have imposed an indefinite ban on granting permission for protests involving the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an, supposedly due to concerns over threats to Swedish security.

Authorities in Turkey revealed on Thursday that they had identified 613 people “accused of making provocative posts” on social media related to the devastating earthquake that hit that country this week, arresting 78 and starting legal actions against nearly 300.

The idea that free speech could succeed on Elon Musk’s Twitter is terrifying many within the European Union, an MEP serving in the bloc’s parliament has said.

James Lawrence, a lawyer representing Douglass Mackey, said the ACLU is “nowhere to be found” regarding the DOJ’s prosection of his client.

The head of a mosque in the Swedish city of Gothenburg has called for a law to ban the destruction of holy books and texts in the aftermath of the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an.

A Canadian Catholic school pupil who was suspended last November for saying there are only two genders was arrested this week after attempting to return to class without renouncing his beliefs.

Officials within the European Union have heavily criticised Elon Musk’s Twitter for failing a so-called “disinformation” test set out by the bloc.

Paul Fitzpatrick, president of 1792 Exchange, said on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that his organization tracks “woke capitalism” to help businesses, individuals, and organizations navigate political risks with a database composed of “corporate bias ratings” of evaluated companies.

Salman Rushdie has spoken out for the first time since a radical Islamic terror attack in New York prompted by a decades-old Iranian fatwa left him near death.