Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, told Breitbart News he is “very concerned” about the rising threat of the “tech oligarchs” at Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other tech giants censoring conservatives in an effort to stymie free speech and push a leftist agenda.
Members of the Trump campaign, media, and GOP reacted to Beto O’Rourke (D) ejecting a Breitbart News reporter from his speech at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, Tuesday, calling O’Rourke a “fraud” and adding that his action is an “attack on a free press.”
Court officials have issued a summons to April Ryan’s bodyguard after an incident earlier this month involving the guard allegedly roughing up a local news reporter covering an event that featured the CNN political analyst as the keynote speaker.
School examiners failed a 16-year-old vegetarian for remarking on her negative view of halal slaughter, claiming inaccurately that she had made “obscene racial comments… throughout an exam paper”.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – The Metropolitan Amvrosios of Kalavryta, a fiery conservative Greek Orthodox bishop known for criticizing, often in intemperate terms, those who he believed acted in a “non-Christian” or “non-Greek” way, including gays, migrants, and politicians, has resigned.
CNN political analyst April Ryan is under fire over a video purportedly showing a man identified as a security guard getting into a physical altercation with a local news editor who was covering an event that featured her as the keynote speaker.
Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga has announced that she will be starting an investigation into censorship of political views on social media in Hungary and across Europe.
Social media companies and Internet service providers must censor “hate speech,” said Democrat presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke on Wednesday while speaking with MSNBC. He linked President Donald Trump to “hate speech” — including descriptions of the president as a “racist” and “white supremacist” — in the same interview and subsequent statements.
A pro-Hong Kong rally at the University of Queensland in Australia last week turned ugly after a violent group of pro-Beijing students crashed the event and attacked the pro-democracy demonstrators.
Scotland Yard has agreed to pay a Christian preacher £2,500 ($3,095) for wrongful arrest and humiliating treatment after Metropolitan Police detained the man last February, stripped him of his Bible, handcuffed him, and drove him several miles away where they left him.
Politicians facilitating an “invasion” of illegal immigration are “contributing” to daily killings of Americas, said Mary Ann Mendoza.
LONDON (AP) – A British investigation into the leaking of confidential diplomatic memos is raising press freedom issues with a police warning that UK media might face a criminal inquiry if leaked documents are published.
The executive director of Planned Parenthood Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) said her business will sponsor a showing of the film Mean Girls as a “fun alternative” to Unplanned, which is set to hit theaters across Canada Friday.
Tommy Robinson has reportedly been transferred to Belmarsh prison, a maximum security facility once described in UK media as “a jihadi training camp”.
Tommy Robinson has been re-sentenced to nine months in prison following his reconviction for contempt of court.
Antifa protesters harassed Trump supporters Saturday in the nation’s capital, showing up to counter-protest a planned “Demand Free Speech” rally in D.C’.s Freedom Plaza.
PARIS (AP) – French lawmakers have approved a measure that is intended to force search engines and social networks to take hate speech off the internet.
A Christian who was expelled from his university for expressing a biblical view on marriage has celebrated winning his latest legal battle, calling it a victory for freedom of speech and religious conscience.
Michelle Malkin warned of tech companies’ increasing political censorship ahead of the 2020 presidential and congressional elections, offering her remarks in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
A top Google official asserted that “no employee” can manipulate search results based on his or her political beliefs when grilled by the top Republican on a House panel Wednesday about a recently unveiled video depicting bias against U.S. President Donald Trump and his supporters at the tech firm.
Google’s shaping of people’s behaviors through its control of internet search is “way beyond” a monopoly, determined Robert Epstein.
A Scottish teenager who was kicked out of class for asserting that there are only two genders has reportedly been suspended from school for three weeks.
The former General-Secretary of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has advocated stripping right-wing “extremists” of their fundamental rights to free speech and free assembly.
Britain’s former equality tsar Trevor Phillips OBE has warned the sweeping new definition of “Islamophobia” is a “bullies’ charter” for Muslims inclined to censor criticism of Islam and Islamic practices.
A recent study found that most college students say that the political and social climate on their college campuses prevents students from expressing their true beliefs. The study reveals that more than two-thirds of college students admitted that campus culture causes students to self-censor over the concern that their classmates could find their views “offensive.”
A Scottish 17-year-old school pupil was allegedly removed from class for failing to be “inclusive” by insisting that there are only two genders.
A company controlling access to public access television is not required to follow the First Amendment because it is not considered a government actor under the Constitution, a closely divided Supreme Court held on Monday.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pushed back on Monday in a discussion about free speech with Washington Post tech reporter Tony Romm, who pressed Cruz about whether attacks on social media about people’s sexual orientation or ethnicity should be censored.
Santa Clara County’s Superior Court judge said, “Sorry Google, you’re going to have to face these charges in court,” recalled Harmeet Dhillon.
“What a lot of these powerful voices on the LGBT left want to do is they want to create this authoritarian woke empire to where they make the rules about what is free speech and what is hate speech,” conservative commentator Rob Smith told Breitbart News’ Alana Mastrangelo on Thursday at Turning Point USA’s 2019 Young Women’s Leadership Summit.
Conservative radio host and prominent NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch railed against the left’s attempts at conservative censorship during Turning Point USA’s 2019 Young Women’s Leadership Summit.
CrossFit criticized Facebook’s arbitrary censorship practices in a Thursday statement, announcing that the company “will no longer support or use Facebook’s services until further notice.” CrossFit will also stop using Facebooks Instagram and WhatsApp platforms.
Facebook has lifted a ban on a pro-life ad campaign in Ireland that featured an image of a human fetus, saying it had been mistaken in judging the image to be “graphic or violent.”
Freedom of expression, whether in speech or in the press, is a key indicator of a country’s health, Pope Francis told journalists in the Vatican Saturday.
Police in China on Monday arrested a man and detained him for ten days for the “crime” of “picking quarrels and making trouble” by mocking public officials with the names he gave his dogs.
Facebook has censored a pro-life ad campaign in Ireland on the grounds that the image of an unborn child qualifies as “graphic” or “violent” imagery.
Internet giant Google expressed concerns on Thursday that Singapore’s new censorship law, the “Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act,” could stifle innovation by threatening online media platforms with huge fines for carrying content the government decides is “fake news.”
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson opened his show with a reaction to Facebook’s banning of so-called “dangerous” entities. The Fox News Channel host offered a question to his viewers, which was as to where
President Trump retweeted a Breitbart News story about Facebook’s blacklist of prominent conservatives including Paul Joseph Watson. Good.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new law on Wednesday that paves the way for Russia to isolate its Internet from the rest of the world. The so-called “sovereign Internet” law is billed as a means of making the Russian Internet more “independent,” but independence will be in short supply as Putin’s authoritarian government tightens its grip on cyberspace.
