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The Chinese Communist Party’s public security department recently pursued criminal charges against “25 rumormongers and imposed administrative penalties on 48 others” for promoting allegedly false accounts online about the Party’s anti-epidemic measures during Shanghai’s ongoing Chinese coronavirus lockdown, the state-run Global Times reported on Wednesday.

Elon Musk has seemingly kowtowed to the EU on internet free speech, declaring he is “exactly aligned” with the bloc’s censorship regulations.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) blasted the Biden administration over the creation of the Disinformation Governance Board, explaining that they are attempting to “stifle dissent, to try to elevate a chosen political narrative that’s endorsed by the regime” — a move that is contrary to a “free society.” 

British parliamentarians have summoned billionaire Elon Musk over his acquisition of Twitter and his plans to revive free speech.

Another big tech clampdown on free speech online appears to be forthcoming after the European Union agreed in principle more online censorship laws on Saturday.

Silicon Valley giant Twitter censored a Shakespearean scholar in Britain for quoting a famous line from the Bard’s Henry VI, Part 2.

Several Russian celebrities risked a potential exposure ban by state media this week through their public protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Fortune magazine reported.

Scottish comedians Count Dankula and Leo Kearse have defended Jimmy Carr’s right to be offensive amid calls for the star to be canceled.

Many things previously described as “misinformation” are “now accepted as fact,” Joe Rogan said after Spotify’s new “approach to COVID-19.”

News media coverage of COVID-19 information is corrupted due to conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies, James O’Keefe said.

“I bet I could get some f*****g pain pills quicker than I could get monoclonal antibodies,” UFC President Dana White said in regards to the rationing of monoclonal antibodies for treatment of COVID-19 during a press conference on Saturday following the UFC 45 Vegas in Las Vegas, NV.

A clear majority of 57 percent of fascist Democrats approve of Big Tech censoring content on their platforms.

Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed the impact of Big Tech censorship and its control over the flow of digital information.

Emma Jo Morris said her reporting on Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” helpd alerts Americans of political censorship from Big Tech companies.

Twitter trolls and purveyors of “disinformation” will potentially face jail time in the UK under a series of anti-free speech measures.

“You cannot have a republic if you can’t have confidence in elections,” Mollie Hemingway, author of Rigged, said on Sunday.

Lithuania has warned its citizens to avoid using smartphones from China over concerns of censorship from the communist regime.

Beijing on Tuesday vowed to increase oversight of China’s already heavily censored internet as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to craft a more “civilized” cyberspace environment based on the “guiding status of Marxism,” Xinhua reported.

Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) warned that Texas is unable to verify what screening measures, if any, were applied to Afghan migrants and refugees seeking resettlement in America.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree Monday restricting the powers of social media companies to “arbitrarily remove” accounts, profiles, and content they deem unworthy of their platforms, Brazil’s Jornal da Cidade online newspaper reported.

Corporate and political elites use “fact-checker” organizations such as NewsGuard to undermine dissident news media outlets, explained Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit in a conversation about digital censorship streamed on Tuesday.

Silicon Valley tech giant Youtube has banned the centre-right Sky News Australia network from uploading video content.

Self-censorship to evade “cancel culture” amounts to “doing the tyrant’s work for him,” Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee, said.

Brendan Carr said the U.S. can provide Internet access to Cuba and circumvent the digital blockade imposed on the one-party island state.

Chinese internet censors are deleting online forums promoting the millennial phenomenon known as “lying flat,” in which young Chinese people quit their jobs to opt out of an overworked lifestyle the Chinese Communist Party has pushed in recent years, the Hindustan Times reported Tuesday.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) praised Alex Marlow’s Breaking the News for exposing news media “criminality” and “defamation.”

Big Tech and news media companies toe the line of the Chinese Communist Party to protect access to China’s market of 1.4 billion subjects, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News on Tuesday.

Priti Patel has reportedly demanded that social media companies censor videos of illegal migrants as they “glamourise” the perilous journey.

Larry Elder praised Alex Marlow’s Breaking the News as “a work of scholarship” and “a wonderful book” on Friday’s edition of his eponymous show.

Facebook should be sued for its political censorship related to the coronavirus and its origins in China, Charles Hurt said.

Big Tech companies should be regulated as telecommunications companies are to combat political censorship, Rep. Jason Smith said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

Big Tech coordinates with the abortion industry to censor “pro-life voices,” Lila Rose, president of Live Action, said on Sunday.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) told Breitbart News on Tuesday that too few elected officials view Big Tech’s left-wing censorship as a problem.

Big Tech companies need to be broken up to end monopoly control and protect free markets, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), the author of The Tyranny of Big Tech, told Breitbart News Daily on Friday that some Democrats “have really come to love” Big Tech’s political censorship while seeking to integrate technology firms’ control over information flow with government power.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intends to sign a bill banning social media companies from “deplatforming,” “shadow banning,” and “censoring” users.