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The Ministry of Justice has come under renewed pressure to cut ties with Anetta Kahane after a Stasi expert declared her unfit to lead a “sensitive task like controlling the internet” based on her history working with the Communist secret police.

In response to Donald Trump’s victory in November’s presidential election, nearly 50 faculty members at Boston College have signed a letter demanding that the university ban all forms of “hate speech.”

The unelected executive arm of the European Union (EU) is threatening to escalate from “non-legislative” action if Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube do not censor what it considers “illegal” online speech within 24 hours.

A court in Germany has convicted a shopkeeper of sedition after he put up a sign asking for asylum seekers to stay out because of negative experiences he’d had in the past.

BERLIN (Reuters) – German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives, a spokesman for the Munich prosecutor’s office said on Friday, following a complaint alleging the company broke national laws against hate speech and sedition by failing to

The trial of popular anti-Islamisation politician Geert Wilders for “inciting hatred” began Monday with the MP vowing not to attend, but rather focus on his work in the parliament.

Former FBI agent and counter-terrorism expert John Guandolo, founder of UnderstandingTheThreat.com, joined Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Wednesday to talk about the cultural impact of mass immigration from Middle Eastern conflict zones into Europe.

Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), may face charges of “hate speech” as the Vienna prosecutor investigates whether he is responsible for posts made by other users on his Facebook page.

A former Conservative council candidate and “teacher”, who runs a secondary school in East London, called for critics of Islam to be killed.

The UK’s public prosecutor has demanded social media users who post “photoshopped” images and memes should face jail, as well as those who incite “virtual mobs” because they are “opposed to that person’s opinions”.

The latest anti-Semitic cartoon posted by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party shows a yarmulke-wearing hooked-nose Jew relaxing in an armchair etched with a Jewish Star of David while he uses a remote control to bomb buildings in Gaza.

An Islamic street preacher has vowed to “continue to fight you police officers” after being found guilty of the religiously aggravated abuse of a woman he labelled a “slut” and “prostitute” for wearing tight jeans.

John Banzhaf, public interest law professor at George Washington University Law School, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday to discuss his recent column about demands that Milo “promise to abstain from hate speech” at his scheduled speaking engagement at GWU or be banned from appearing at the university.

UKIP’s leader in the London Assembly has vowed to fight the city’s Muslim Mayor as he cracks down on free speech, whilst slamming multicultural ideology and warning about the threat from radical Islam.

Russian atheist blogger and YouTube star Ruslan Sokolovsky, who is either 21 or 22 years old according to various sources, has gotten away with some provocative stunts during his career, but apparently catching Pokemon Go inside a cathedral has crossed the line.

TEL AVIV – IDF troops and the Shin Bet security agency shut down a Palestinian radio station and arrested five employees Wednesday morning for “broadcasting inciting programs,” the army said.

UK police are investigating a number of messages on social media criticising plans to turn a huge former care home into accommodation for ‘asylum seekers’, warning user they could face ‘jail’ if they ‘offend’ people.

A politically incorrect Twitter user has been “harassed” by an official London police account, which allegedly stalked his social media presence and/or police databases to identify his family members by name and threaten on the social media site.

The BBC has ceased upon a report, by a think tank run by left wing Labour party supporters, which open conflates criticism of Islam and racism to claim “islamophobia” on social media has “peaked” and imply censorship is needed.

TEL AVIV – Scotland Celtic soccer team fans are planning to stage a protest against “rogue Apartheid state” Israel when their side takes on Hapoel Beersheba next week in a crucial Champions League playoff next week.

An Austrian pensioner has been sentenced to six months probation for ‘hate speech’ on social media and when a judge told him he was now a criminal the man replied, “super, very good”.

Most of the mainstream media and the tech journalism world celebrated Twitter’s decision to ban Breitbart News tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos from Twitter on Tuesday evening, after complaints from Ghostbusters co-star Leslie Jones.

The German Justice Minister Heiko Maas claims that social media sites don’t do enough to combat hate speech online and has threatened sites with further European Union (EU) regulation. In the latest attempt to crack down on what the German

A junior politician in the Left party who claimed to have been the victim of a homophobic, neo-Nazi knife attack faces up to three years in jail for lying. 19-year-old Julian Kinzel alleged in January that right wing extremists slashed

A couple appeared before a court to answer to charges of incitement because the man had established a Facebook group that was “hostile to refugees”. Peter M. founded a secret group called AFB (Anti Refugee Movement) about a year ago on

An Austrian NGO has created a guideline for offended parties to easily report any anti-migrant ‘hate speech’ messages to police in order to prosecute those who post them. Non-governmental organisation (NGO) SOS-Mitmench, or SOS Fellow Man, is a pressure group which was

A German couple were taken to court and sentenced after they created a Facebook group that criticised migrants and the government’s mass migration policy. The couple, who live in the German town of Vierkirchen, stood accused of inciting hatred toward

YouTube has used its “hate speech” policy to remove a video posted by CounterJihad that exposed how the Muslim Brotherhood wages what it calls “Civilization Jihad” in America.

Facebook on Saturday night dismissed an Israeli government claim that its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, had “some of the blood” of an Israeli terror victim on his hands, because it did not censor Palestinian incitement and hate speech.

Right wing activists are being forced into hiding abroad as a result of France’s oppressive laws against free speech. Le Monde reports that a number of right wingers have been pressured to flee France to avoid arrest for “hate” speech.

On Tuesday, the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Valencia initiated criminal proceedings against the Archbishop of Valencia, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, who has been charged with inciting “hate crimes,” after the prelate spoke out in a homily against a reigning “gay empire,” criticized radical feminist groups, and decried Europe’s open-door policy toward migrants.

As the Kremlin claims unequivocal support among Russians for its policies both at home and abroad, a crackdown is underway against ordinary social media users who post things that run against the official narrative. Here the Kremlin’s interests coincide with those of investigators, who are anxious to report high conviction rates for extremism. The Kremlin didn’t immediately comment on the issue.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s deputy chief envoy to Germany slammed an Islamic hate preacher for calling for the annihilation of the Jewish people at a publicly-funded mosque in Stuttgart.   In one of the clips posted on YouTube of Muhammad Raza

The number of people arrested in London for so-called “online crimes of speech”, mainly made on social media, has shot up in the past few years. Six hundred and twenty-five arrests were made for online speech crimes in 2010, rising

Breitbart London Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam has issued a scathing warning about how the EU’s new censorship deal will allow corporations to dictate the law, effectively create blasphemy laws in Europe and shut down criticism of the migrant crisis. On Tuesday, it was

Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, joined Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Wednesday to discuss efforts to control social media and the online flow of information with “hate speech” laws.