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The EU announced that a slew of social media platforms and other websites that will come under stricter content moderation measures.

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.

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

India’s parliament, the Lok Sabha, on Monday was roiled by angry protests from opposition members against the expulsion of India Congress Party (INC) leader Rahul Gandhi.

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.

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

Home Secretary Suella Braverman issued guidance demanding police stop recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ when someone was merely offended.

The occupied region of Tibet is less free than communist North Korea, and the Asia-Pacific region generally is among the most repressed in the world, where only five percent of people live in free countries, the international organization Freedom House revealed on Thursday.

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

The Texas Supreme Court rejected an effort by pro-abortion groups to silence a pro-life advocate who equated abortion with murder. 

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

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.

A group of hackers linked to Sudan took credit for denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the websites of Swedish rail companies in revenge for burnings of the Islamic Qur’an.

A pro-life activist and a Catholic priest were cleared after both were arrested while silently praying outside an abortion clinic in England.

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.

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.

More than 40 Congressional Republicans sent a letter to Smithsonian Institute’s Secretary Lonnie Bunch on Tuesday, demanding to know why Smithsonian National Air Space Museum (NASM) staff allegedly kicked out students for wearing pro-life hats.

Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt has criticised Swedish police in Stockholm for allowing Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan to carry out the burning of the Qur’an. Bildt, who served as Swedish Prime Minister from 1991 to 1994 and later

Christian students are suing the Smithsonian National Air Space Museum (NASM) for allegedly violating their First and Fifth Amendment rights by kicking them out for wearing pro-life hats following the 50th annual March for Life.

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.

Populist Reconquest MEP Nicolas Bay has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity after allegations of “hate speech” over criticism of a mosque development in northern France.

A number of Irish senators have called for stricter censorship to be implemented online after a sudden surge in public backlash against the ongoing migrant crisis plaguing the country.

The Russian government’s embassy in Denmark has condemned protests in the Scandinavian country that saw the Qur’an burned, declaring the “mockery” of Islam should not be covered by the freedom of expression.

A new index rating free speech across the globe has described the UK as only being “partially open” amid the government’s online censorship plans.

Tiktok runs the risk of being banned within the EU should it fail to censor content, an official from within the bloc has warned.

The United States will soon implement laws against so-called hate speech, a top Eurocrat claimed at the World Economic Forum.

The website for French magazine Charlie Hebdo was reportedly hacked in the wake of publishing cartoons mocking the Islamist regime in Iran.

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), Europe’s largest journalist association, has expressed concern about a new Ukrainian law that could arbitrarily censor media in the country.

After backlash amongst the media and the general public, a man who was jailed after refusing to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender pupil has been released in time for Christmas.

In yet another assault on Christianity in Britain, a pro-life activist was arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic.

Brussels has reportedly summoned tech-billionaire Elon Musk to the European Parliament to discuss “hate speech” problems in relation to his social media network, Twitter.