Internet Freedom Faded in 2024 amid Rise of Juntas, Islamists, and Authoritarians
Internet watchdogs generally agreed that Internet freedom declined once again in 2024 – the fourteenth loss in a row, according to Freedom House.

Internet watchdogs generally agreed that Internet freedom declined once again in 2024 – the fourteenth loss in a row, according to Freedom House.
Google removed PragerU’s app from the Google Play Store for Android devices, claiming it violated the big tech platform’s “misleading claims” policy. As the educational organization publicized Google’s latest in a long string of censorship moves against it, the internet giant reversed its blacklisting without explanation.
Mark Chenoweth, the president and chief legal officer of New Civil Liberties Alliance, discusses how conservative media has been censored thanks to the U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) and what his organization is doing to combat this.
The government funding bill includes a one-year extension of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), an agency that funds organizations that censor conservative media including Breitbart News.
Bluesky, the leftist echo chamber that has enjoyed explosive growth since the 2024 election, is now facing pressure by its users to ban progressive journalist and podcast host Jesse Singal over his skeptical views on transgenderism.
Amazon’s service in Germany reportedly blocked users from submitting reviews on former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s memoirs amid supposed “unusual review activity”.
West Coast Billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs is expanding her advocacy groups to suppress the mainstream public’s criticism of her mass migration policies.
Donald Trump’s vow to dismantle the censorship cartel of “misinformation” researchers, media blacklisters like NewsGuard, and Big Tech has sent shivers through the academic community that has dedicated itself to censoring conservatives.
Bluesky, the leftist echo chamber that has enjoyed explosive growth since the election, has pledged to adhere to the EU’s censorship-happy regulations following accusations of noncompliance by the bloc’s authorities.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres encouraged world governments on Tuesday to “rein in hate speech and disinformation spreading online” through a global censorship framework.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Monday said Facebook is trying to silence her attempt to speak out about Jeffrey Epstein’s “horrific sex trafficking ring.”
Australia is rushing to get a new law banning children under 16 from using most social media platforms through parliament.
A man drove his SUV into a crowd of students and pedestrians outside a school in Changde, China, on Tuesday, causing numerous injuries but no reported fatalities.
Fledgling social media upstart Bluesky has enjoyed a surge in new users over the past week, more than doubling its user base to over 15 million as leftists flee from X/Twitter. However, the rapid growth has also brought significant moderation challenges for the young company. The overwhelmingly leftist userbase has been flooded the company with flagged posts, requests for censorship, and even child pornography.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Brendan Carr to serve as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman is applauding the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the White House as a liberating force for all those who value freedom of speech and expression.
Britain’s Orwellian speech police door knocked a veteran journalist on Remembrance Sunday morning over allegedly “stirring up racial hatred” on social media.
Chinese officials in the city of Zhuhai have erased the makeshift memorial for victims of Monday’s horrifying automobile attack, in which a man killed 35 people and wounded 45 others by driving his sport utility vehicle (SUV) into a crowd outside a stadium.
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said that Europe must enact strict speech regulations on Elon Musk’s X platform to fight so-called “disinformation”.
Democrat billionaire and the former CEO of Zynga, Mark Pincus, endorsed former President Donald Trump, noting that the United States would “be stronger under Trump.”
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued a statement on Thursday that said it would conduct a massive campaign over the next two months to erase all content deemed “illegal and harmful” by Chinese Communist Party censors.
Young people in Shanghai, China, took to the streets in Halloween costumes over the weekend despite rainy weather and a grumpy ban on holiday decorations, costumes, and anything with “horror or violence-related elements.”
Elon Musk took to his X/Twitter account over the weekend to point out that if anyone needs “further proof that I strongly support freedom of speech,” they should note that “nutcase” Keith Olbermann, “who is literally calling for my arrest” is not being censored on his social media platform.
Multiple reports this week from various Afghan provinces indicated that the Taliban terrorists in charge of the country have begun enforcing a ban on the publication of pictures and videos of living things, human or otherwise, in mass media – effectively rendering journalism impossible.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) has announced that he is investigating Google for “censoring conservative speech,” saying the tech giant is manipulating search results leading into “the most consequential election in our nation’s history.”
Worse still, Seinfeld is defending an indefensible double standard: he’s standing up for a bigotry where Christians and men (especially white men) can be ridiculed, demeaned, and insulted, while everyone else is off limits and protected.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) downplayed social media censorship during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate against Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) by suggesting that conservatives should have had their speech censored, claiming their criticism of the government over coronavirus-related issues is equivalent to yelling “fire” in “a crowded theater.”
Three people were killed and 15 injured on Monday night when a 37-year-old man with the surname “Lin” went on a knife rampage at a Walmart supermarket in Shanghai.
The Biden administration’s “climate envoy” John Kerry took heat recently for his comments about the First Amendment at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
A federal judge has ruled that the discovery in a lawsuit filed by video platform Rumble against leftist pro-censorship advocates Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin, co-founders of Check My Ads, will proceed, denying the defendants’ request to stop or delay the discovery phase of the lawsuit.
Leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended the censorship of anti-globalists at the U.N. General Assembly.
Chinese economist Zhu Hengpeng, deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has disappeared after criticizing dictator Xi Jinping’s economic policies in a private online chat group.
Elon Musk presented Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with the Global Citizen Award on Monday on behalf of the Atlantic Council.
Encrypted messaging company Telegram announced it will now share user data with law enforcement to combat illegal activities on the platform. This massive U-turn in privacy policy comes after the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France last month.
Brazilian conservative leaders who stood in defense of X have not issued public statements at press time on its potential return.
In a surprising act of capitulation, Elon Musk and his X social media platform are complying with the demands of Brazil’s Supreme Court after weeks of defiance.
The Biden-Harris administration refuses to publicly condemn threats against American freedom of speech by the European Union over an interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk on his social media platform X last month, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has revealed.
Citing “questionable governance” in Brussels, Thierry Breton has resigned as European Commission’s top censorship czar in a surprise announcement in the wake of a public spat over his threats to ban Elon Musk’s X platform in the bloc.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared at a recent event that his days of apologizing are over. The Facebook founder attempted to blame conservatives themselves for the rampant censorship on his platforms, stating, “When it’s a political problem… there are people operating in good faith who are identifying a problem and want something to be fixed, and there are people who are just looking for someone to blame.”
2020 Election censors True Media are repositioning themselves as “AI Deepfake” authorities heading into the 2024 election thanks to backing from tech giant Microsoft.