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The Tory government is preparing legislation to prevent political debanking and protect freedom of speech from activist lenders.

The SCOTUS decision on a Christian designer’s convictions about gay marriage was a “win for all Americans,” according to Franklin Graham.

The Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) has moved to strip conservative network Jovem Pan of its three radio broadcasting licenses.

Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox has been cleared by the Metropolitan Police after demands the for burning a ‘Progress Pride’ flag.

A Massachusetts middle schooler and his family are suing Nichols Middle School for allegedly violating his First Amendment rights after he was told to remove his shirt, which had the phrase “there are only two genders” written on it.

Hate speech laws currently going through the Irish parliament will see ordinary people treated like “drug dealers” over their views, a Senator has said.

The Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) of Brazil, the nation’s top court, overturned a pardon on Wednesday that former President Jair Bolsonaro had issued to conservative former lawmaker Daniel Silveira last year, a move opponents described as blatantly violating the constitutional separation of powers.

A 77-year-old man has been convicted in a French court of disrespecting the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron.

Donald Trump Jr. has branded recent pushes to establish hate speech laws in Western nations as being “insane”.

Wikipedia could be banned from the UK as a result of impending censorship legislation, the charity that hosts the website has warned.

Elon Musk has condemned forthcoming hate speech laws in one EU country as being a “massive attack against freedom of speech”.

A senior EU commissioner has said that she is “disappointed” by Twitter’s lack of censorship amid the bloc’s efforts to crack down on free speech online.

The EU announced that a slew of social media platforms and other websites that will come under stricter content moderation measures.

French authorities will reportedly prosecute three anti-Macron protesters over allegations they gave the president the middle finger.

European parliamentarians have condemned the UK for arresting a critic of Emmanuel Macron under anti-terror legislation.

UK police have reportedly used the country’s anti-terror laws to arrest a French publisher accused of being involved in protests against Emmanuel Macron.

A number of major bomb threats against Chinese embassies were made in a journalist’s name after she published an article detailing the intimidation faced by critics of the Chinese Communist Party.

A woman has been arrested for allegedly comparing French President Emmanuel Macron to “trash” on social media amid nationwide protests.

Richard Dawkins left an interviewer stunned after refusing to give any comments regarding radical Islam and the attempted assassination of author Salman Rushdie.

India’s parliament, the Lok Sabha, on Monday was roiled by angry protests from opposition members against the expulsion of India Congress Party (INC) leader Rahul Gandhi.

Posie Parker, a women’s rights campaigner branded a ‘TERF’ by transgender activists and their allies, said police told her she was “lucky to be alive” after being attacked at a rally in New Zealand.

Authoritarian governments across the world are looking to censor the internet in order to “control people”, a senior official from ICANN has said.

A Christian teacher has been fired from his post after claiming that “homosexuality is invading the church” on social media.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman issued guidance demanding police stop recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ when someone was merely offended.

The occupied region of Tibet is less free than communist North Korea, and the Asia-Pacific region generally is among the most repressed in the world, where only five percent of people live in free countries, the international organization Freedom House revealed on Thursday.

Populist French Senator Stéphane Ravier faces a criminal trial after publishing a tweet in January of last year in which he stated that “immigration kills the youth of France.”

A Christian teacher has been accused of “misgendering” one of his “transgender” pupils during a misconduct hearing.

The Texas Supreme Court rejected an effort by pro-abortion groups to silence a pro-life advocate who equated abortion with murder. 

Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novels have been “rewritten” to remove racist remarks ahead of a coming re-release, The Telegraph has reported.

Police in the Swedish city of Stockholm have imposed an indefinite ban on granting permission for protests involving the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an, supposedly due to concerns over threats to Swedish security.

A group of hackers linked to Sudan took credit for denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the websites of Swedish rail companies in revenge for burnings of the Islamic Qur’an.

A pro-life activist and a Catholic priest were cleared after both were arrested while silently praying outside an abortion clinic in England.

The idea that free speech could succeed on Elon Musk’s Twitter is terrifying many within the European Union, an MEP serving in the bloc’s parliament has said.

The head of a mosque in the Swedish city of Gothenburg has called for a law to ban the destruction of holy books and texts in the aftermath of the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an.

A Canadian Catholic school pupil who was suspended last November for saying there are only two genders was arrested this week after attempting to return to class without renouncing his beliefs.

Officials within the European Union have heavily criticised Elon Musk’s Twitter for failing a so-called “disinformation” test set out by the bloc.