Newly-appointed French prime minister Jean Castex has made it clear that he is no fan of anonymity on the Internet, claiming that it distorts political debates online.
The leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, has called out the “so-called conservatives” for appeasing the forces of cancel culture on the left, rather than standing up to the “politically correct mob”.
The creator of The Office, Ricky Gervais, has called out the online “fascists” that want to shut down freedom of speech, saying that “if you’re mildly conservative on Twitter people call you Hitler.”
SCOTUS on Thursday agreed to review a case surrounding the constitutional right of free speech for students on U.S. college campuses.
President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that he had told the U.S. Treasury to review the tax-exempt status of schools and universities that had become vehicles for left-wing indoctrination.
Conservative figures Tom Fitton, Mark Levin, and Allen West joined a video celebrating the Founders, veterans, and police officers.
The much-feared purge of dissident material from Hong Kong’s libraries and schools is underway only a week after Beijing imposed a sweeping “national security law” on the island, bypassing its legislature and legal system.
Left-wingers attacked radical leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky on Tuesday after he co-signed a statement in Harper’s criticizing cancel culture — several days after President Donald Trump did the same in his Mount Rushmore speech.
A rugby fan has been banned from his club’s stadium for life for praising a girl who refused to “take the knee” and criticising “Marxist extremism and intimidation”.
An Isle of Man radio host suspended for denying he had “white privilege” had been reinstated after the Free Speech Union went to bat for him.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Global Times on Thursday accused critics around the world of overreacting to the national security law Beijing has imposed on Hong Kong, arguing that measures to curtail the speech and political activity of dangerous “separatists” are appropriate and fall in line with actions taken by other world governments.
“Woke corporate America” is “our number one enemy,” declared Ann Coulter, author of Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, offering her remarks on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Dylan Gwinn.
Political censorship from the world’s largest technology companies places elections at risk through manipulation of information, warned Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), offering his comments on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) described the world’s largest technology companies — naming Google, Facebook, and Twitter — as “monopolies,” adding that she and her colleagues are considering the use of antitrust laws and reevaluation of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) to address their shared political censorship and shaping of information access.
These are the major changes Democrats could make within months of the 2020 election, and which will be impossible to reverse.
Rev. Bill Owens denounces the ideological bullying of the left, and said he will “stand with Tucker Carlson” against advertisers who have pulled ads from his Fox News Channel show.
On Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested the Supreme Court of the United States’ (SCOTUS) tolerates requirements on the exercise of the Second Amendment that it would not allow to be applied to abortion or free speech.
“Silence is violence” is a totalitarian slogan demanding compliance and reminiscent of political coercion within the former Soviet Union, said William Jacobson, professor of law at Cornell University and founder of Legal Insurrection.
A federal judge in Denver, Colorado, issued an order late Friday night limiting the use of non-lethal projectiles and tear gas at protests, saying that the protesters’ First Amendment rights were more important than protecting property.
The New York Times faced a public backlash from its own newsroom on Wednesday after the paper published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) calling for the military to be used to quell nationwide rioting if necessary.
“Freedom of expression is sacred,” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro declared on Thursday in a press conference responding to a police raid of 29 comedians, pundits, and YouTubers as part of what the nation’s Supreme Court is dubbing an operation against “fake news.”
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Brendan Carr welcomed the debate on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and the role the statute and social media companies play in free speech in the country, while Democrat commissioners criticized President Donald Trump’s executive order.
While speaking on MSNBC on Thursday, MSNBC Political Analyst Richard Stengel argued that the First Amendment “doesn’t protect false speech about a virus or false speech that endangers the health of your users.”
Lee Cheuk-yan of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democrat Movements of China, organizer of an annual June 4 vigil to remember the victims of Communist China’s murderous crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989, said on Wednesday that this year’s event will be held in a socially distant manner due to extended coronavirus bans on large public gatherings. Lee said the coronavirus restrictions are “disproportionate” to the state of the pandemic in Hong Kong and accused the Beijing-controlled government of using the emergency to suppress dissent.
The Chinese Communist Party’s sham legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), is reportedly preparing to bypass the Hong Kong legislature (which is looking more than a little shamtastic these days itself) and impose a set of national security laws that could crush the Hong Kong protest movement and hollow out what remains of the island’s limited autonomy.
Both secularists and Christians have come out against a proposed hate crime law in Scotland, insisting that the loosely worded law poses a threat to free speech.
Jonathan Turley on free speech: “China may be right for many in Congress and academia, but it remains on the wrong side of history.”
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates’ energetic defense of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) handled the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic might have been an eye-opening moment for many Americans.
The far-left Atlantic Magazine is openly lobbying for the coronavirus pandemic to lead to more China-style speech censorship here in America.
Joel Pollak told Dennis Prager that media should honor American faith rather than disparage it during the coronaovirus outbreak.
A Chinese student who called for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping to step down in a message posted to social media on Monday has gone missing. On Tuesday, reports suggested he was in police custody for his remarks.
The Philippine Congress granted President Rodrigo Duterte special powers to combat the spread of Chinese coronavirus in a bill approved Tuesday.
Chinese real estate tycoon Ren Zhiqiang disappeared on Thursday, shortly after penning an online article strongly critical of the Chinese government’s response to the coronavirus epidemic. Some of Ren’s friends and admirers believe he was kidnapped by the Chinese Communist Party and is being held incommunicado for the “crime” of speaking out against the Party and China’s authoritarian President Xi Jinping.
The Turkish parliament endured another of its periodic fistfights on Wednesday, a sizable melee between opposition politicians and members of the ruling AKP party that apparently started when one of the opposition leaders “insulted” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Conservative activist Joel Patrick — who had drinks thrown into the window of his truck by a mob of students at Ohio University last week — told Breitbart News true proponents of free speech are those who are willing to protect speech they don’t like.
The most nauseating phrase in the English language is “I’m not against free speech but…”
During a Wednesday night CNN town hall Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden stressed that the Second Amendment is “not absolute.”
More than eight in ten people working in culture and the arts feel those with “controversial opinions” risk professional ostracism.
A small group of left-wing protesters gathered outside of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s home in Mission District to protest the company’s use of personal data and its decision not to regulate certain political advertisements.
Prominent evangelical pastor Franklin Graham said Sunday that LGBTQ activists are trying to ban “the truth of the Gospel” from society by having him barred from preaching in the UK.
