The vast majority of Americans believe people can “experience significant stress, even to the point of self-harm” due to the effects of cancel culture, a Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) survey found.
Nearly 60 percent of Americans believe there is “a growing cancel culture that is a threat to our freedom” according to a survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in a case regarding a high school football coach who was fired for praying on the field after games.
Poland’s government has taken Meta to task for banning a eurosceptic party with representation in the Polish parliament from Facebook.
The United States House select committee on the January 6 attack wrote Tuesday to Fox News host Sean Hannity asking him to answer questions about text messages he allegedly sent to former President Donald Trump and others.
The coronavirus pandemic has been an indisputable boon for authoritarianism. Individual liberty and personal sovereignty are in retreat around the world. Tyrannical China is rising as the dominant world power, having paid no price for unleashing the disease, while the United States and its allies are having deep second thoughts about economic freedom, free speech, and other bulwarks against authoritarian control.
Chinese officials tore down the “Pillar of Shame,” a 26-foot-tall statue of brutalized bodies commemorating the 1989 massacre of Tiananmen Square protesters by the Chinese Communist government, on Thursday over the objections of its creator.
The UK Home Secretary has announced that she will overrule the use of ‘Orwellian’ non-crime hate incidents by police, in a potential win for freedom of speech in the UK, if the minister follows through on her words. Home Secretary
Former police officer Harry Miller has won a legal victory against the British police’s use of “non-crime hate incidents”.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has condemned using the term ‘snowflake’ to refer to “younger generations” who are concerned about “the safety and protection of minorities”.
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described social media Saturday as one of the main threats to democracy.
The Stanford University school Senate denied funding requested by the College Republicans for former Vice President Mike Pence to speak on campus.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), with the help of “anti-racist and language experts,” compiled a list of “offensive” terms.
(AFP) — An episode of The Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is missing from the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong, adding to concerns about mainland China-style censorship in the city.
Comedian Marc Maron says he has grown to see cancel culture as a good thing, and those who want to express provocative ideas without losing their livelihoods are “right-wing fascists.”
The more disgusting, venal, incompetent, and destructive our political class grows, the more it wants to clamp down on our ability to tell us what we think of it. Funny that.
A homeowner in Seagrove Beach, Florida, is in the middle of a controversy with Walton County Code Enforcement officials, WMBB reported Monday.
Twitter trolls and purveyors of “disinformation” will potentially face jail time in the UK under a series of anti-free speech measures.
A hard-left “news” site called Novara Media was briefly cancelled by YouTube. Among those calling most loudly for its reinstatement were the people it most hates: “right-wing” and “libertarian” media commentators. Why?
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) responded to concerns that she just wants Facebook to censor people on the right more and will end up hurting free speech with her push for greater regulation of
Amnesty International (AI) announced on Monday it will close its office in Hong Kong by the end of the year.
A surgeon in Minnesota was fired after telling a local school board meeting about parents’ right to make health decisions for their children.
An advisory panel of the Japanese Ministry of Justice approved a plan on Thursday that seeks to “introduce prison terms as part of tougher penalties for online insults in Japan,” Kyodo News reported.
Boris Johnson’s government is claiming to “back freedom of speech to the hilt” even as it moves to prosecute tech bosses who fail to censor “foul content”.
A Christian pastor who grew up under the tyranny of the Soviet Union in Poland is now banned from traveling outside of the Canadian province where he lives, and the judge who heard the case also ordered Artur Pawlowski to read in public a prepared statement on the coronavirus.
Caving to the mutiny people have pushed within his own company, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos now claims he “screwed up” when defending comedian Dave Chappelle against the 2SLGBTQQIA+ activists outraged over his explosive stand-up special “The Closer.”
Spain’s conservative People’s Party (PP) have presented a bill to the Spanish parliament that aims to end anonymity on social media.
A Salon article declared the “honeymoon” between the press and the president “over” as it accused the Biden administration of frequently preventing President Biden from speaking with the press due to fears of what they will ask and how he will respond, while claiming the president was failing due to his “tightly controlled relationship to the media” as he is “walled off by advisers who won’t let him talk.”
Members of the Swedish Muslim Nyans Party have called for a sculpture by recently deceased Mohammed cartoonist Lars Vilks to be burned.
A speech by former Cabinet minister and Tory leadership contender David Davis MP against vaccine passports has been wiped from YouTube for “contradict[ing] expert consensus”.
French Communist Party (PCF) presidential candidate Fabien Roussel has called for those convicted of racism or hate crimes to be ineligible for public office.
Baroness Claire Fox told Breitbart that free speech advocates in the West need to think of new approaches to fight for free speech.
The French Ministry of National Education proposes holding tributes in schools to the memory of teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded in the street last year by a radical Islamic terrorist.
The Charity Commission has accused an Islamic charity which doxxed a British teacher who showed his class a caricature of the Muslim prophet Mohammed of inflaming tensions and risking the safety of the teacher.
Oxford University’s Worcester College issued an apology this week after the school hosted a Christian conference, one of whose speakers assists people dealing with gender confusion.
A billboard owner in France has been fined 10,000 for “publicly insulting” President Macron for depicting the French leader as Adolph Hitler.
A British police officer is facing racial misconduct charges for joking “maybe I should start eating curry” on hearing of a South Asian man aged 105.
Nigel Farage has hailed as a “victory for free speech” the British broadcasting regulator clearing TV show host Piers Morgan for criticising Meghan Markle and saying he did not believe the Duchess of Sussex was telling the truth when she accused the Royal Family of neglecting her mental health and that a family member was racist.
Pressure is rising in the Church of Sweden to force priests to conduct same-sex marriages, ahead of internal elections in September.
The Guardian newspaper covered up an academic calling a black conservative political commentator a race traitor, Breitbart London can reveal.
