freedom of speech

The head of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) attempted to claim that his organisation is not a censorship outfit as he faces potential deportation from the United States for involvement in silencing American voices online.

The EU expressed indignation and vowed retaliation on Wednesday over U.S. sanctions on the bloc’s former censorship chief Thierry Breton.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that his government will seek to further expand restrictions on so-called “hate speech” in the wake of the Islamist terror attack against Jewish people on Bondi Beach in Sydney.

Police arrested two people who called for “intifada” during a protest following decision to toughen enforcement of hate speech laws.

The State Department said on Thursday that America is “comprehensively reviewing our relationship with the Government of Tanzania” due to concerns over the “ongoing repression of religious freedom and free speech.”

Freedom under even greater threat as studies show a bench of magistrates far more likely to convict free speech defendants a jury.

Venezuelan 65-year-old doctor Marggie Orozco was sentenced to 30 years in prison for criticizing the regime of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in a WhatsApp voice note in 2024, Venezuelan outlets reported Monday.

Just days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, London Mayor Sadiq Khan fired a broadside at President Donald Trump.

An assassin murdered Charlie Kirk in part to “terrorize those who think like Charlie into silence,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard 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.

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.

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.

Police say a man they are seeking in connection to an alleged assault “boarded a flight out of the country in the early hours”.

A federal court on Thursday sided with an Oregon Christian mother after state officials denied her application in 2023 to adopt foster children because of her religious beliefs about gender and sexuality. 

A council in Kent wants to fine people caught swearing in public spaces and protect the delicate sensibilities of those offended by what it deems profane language.

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”.

Nearly sixty per cent of people in France believe that the general state of freedom has eroded under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, a survey has found.

Germany has been accused of violating basic tenets of Western values yet again, as a news editor was convicted by a court for posting a meme mocking the government’s “hatred” of free speech.

British police have been accused of acting in a “Kafkaesque” manner after they arrested the parents of a nine-year-old girl over complaints they made about her primary school on WhatsApp.

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a non-governmental human rights organization, released a report on Wednesday that found over 1,500 people have been arbitrarily detained by the Chinese Communist government over the past six years in a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent.

The author of Scotland’s draconian protest restrictions around abortion clinics has admitted that people who live within the anti-free speech zone could be committing an offence if they pray in their own homes “depending on who passes by the window”.

It will be impossible to justify U.S. military spending to voters if it is used to protect Euros that increasingly act like the bad guys.

Elon Musk’s X social media firm announced it has launched legal cases in Germany against government “overreach” against the platform’s users’ privacy and freedom of expression.

A leaked Home Office report has called on the UK government to revamp efforts to crack down on so-called “non-crime hate incidents” to counter extremism within the country. 

British pubs could soon be forced to police the speech of customers on contentious issues such as transgenderism and religion in the latest crackdown on the institution by the leftist Labour government.

A New Jersey township that came under fire for banning the American flag from being used as a “prop” during town council meetings has tried to apologize for the “confusion” after the council president had a resident escorted out of a meeting for holding one.

The Starmer government has used fear to shut down public discussion, and Parliamentary rules to silence lawmakers, Nigel Farage warns. 

Tommy Robinson has been sentenced to 18 months after admitting to contempt of court for repeating libellous allegations about a Syrian refugee.

English activist Tommy Robinson admitted to contempt of court on Monday for violating an injunction barring him from repeating libelous allegations against a Syrian refugee.

A Cambridge professor has warned that the woke ethos of diversity, equity, and inclusion threatens to “destroy” universities and turn them into “empty shells” without the pursuit of knowledge as the principal goal.

Apparently not content with merely policing speech on the internet or on the streets, the leftist Labour Party government in Britain is reportedly looking to pass legislation which would crack down on supposedly offensive comments made in pubs.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday that he was freed after years of incarceration because he “pled guilty to journalism.”

Court hears of arrest of an internet user for “anti-Muslim and anti-establishment rhetoric” on Sunday.

Anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson has been arrested under anti-terrorism legislation, his supporters claimed on Sunday.

Law to protect freedom of speech at British universities has been killed by new left-wing Labour government days before it comes into force.