On Tuesday, the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Valencia initiated criminal proceedings against the Archbishop of Valencia, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, who has been charged with inciting “hate crimes,” after the prelate spoke out in a homily against a reigning “gay empire,” criticized radical feminist groups, and decried Europe’s open-door policy toward migrants.
As the Kremlin claims unequivocal support among Russians for its policies both at home and abroad, a crackdown is underway against ordinary social media users who post things that run against the official narrative. Here the Kremlin’s interests coincide with those of investigators, who are anxious to report high conviction rates for extremism. The Kremlin didn’t immediately comment on the issue.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s deputy chief envoy to Germany slammed an Islamic hate preacher for calling for the annihilation of the Jewish people at a publicly-funded mosque in Stuttgart. In one of the clips posted on YouTube of Muhammad Raza
The number of people arrested in London for so-called “online crimes of speech”, mainly made on social media, has shot up in the past few years. Six hundred and twenty-five arrests were made for online speech crimes in 2010, rising
Breitbart London Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam has issued a scathing warning about how the EU’s new censorship deal will allow corporations to dictate the law, effectively create blasphemy laws in Europe and shut down criticism of the migrant crisis. On Tuesday, it was
Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, joined Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Wednesday to discuss efforts to control social media and the online flow of information with “hate speech” laws.
A man has been arrested, detained and charged for wearing an “offensive” T-shirt, which police said caused people “distress”. The T-shirt mocked the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 Liverpool fans died, as “Gods [sic] way” of helping a pest control
A number of left, liberal-leaning groups rode to the defence of free speech this morning after it was announced that the European Commission in partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft, would be heavily policing the internet for “hate speech”
The European Commission has today announced a partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft in order to crack down on what it classes as “illegal hate speech” while “criminaliz[ing]” perpetrators and “promoting independent counter-narratives” that the European Union favours. A press
An alleged “senior prank” between cross-town North Texas high school rivals ended with five teenagers in jail. The students face felony charges for vandalism and defacing school property with vulgar graffiti.
JERUSALEM – A news report on a children’s event broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV News included a young Palestinian girl’s hate speech claiming that the Jews kill Muslim worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque and that they imprison small children.
A teacher in Austria will be charged for telling students Mohammed, the founder of Islam, was a child molester. A middle school teacher in the Austrian city of Bregenz is facing criminal prosecution for her comments regarding the founder of Islam.
Muslim chaplains working within Britain’s prison system have been routinely distributing Islamist hate literature, leaving extremist pamphlets preaching death to non-believers and hatred of the West within easy reach of inmates, a leaked review has revealed. The Ministry of Justice,
DRESDEN (GERMANY) (AFP) – The founder of Germany’s xenophobic and anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement will appear in court Tuesday on hate speech charges for branding refugees “cattle” and “scum” on social media. Lutz Bachmann, founder of the far-right “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation
A new search engine and database says it aims to expose the purveyors of anonymous online ‘hate speech’ to employers, friends, and families.
JERUSALEM – Monica Lewinsky on Wednesday tackled the issue of cyber hatred during a panel she moderated at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Lewinsky is an anti-bullying champion, having been the victim of personal attacks in the wake of the
Anti-Islamisation firebrand Geert Wilders went on trial last Friday for allegedly inciting hatred against the Dutch Moroccan minority. State prosecutors say Wilders asked a crowd of supporters in March 2014 whether they wanted more or fewer Moroccans, in the Netherlands
On hate speech, social media companies are enthusiastically liking, retweeting, and faving national governments. In December, the German government announced that they had secured the co-operation of Facebook, Google and Twitter in removing “hate speech” from their platforms. A wave
It took no time at all for the ugliness to begin flowing once the death of Nancy Reagan was announced.
The German government’s demand that social media giants Google, Facebook and Twitter remove what it calls anti-migrant ‘hate speech’ is having its first real test in the wake of the sickening sex attacks in Cologne over New Year’s Eve. Breitbart London first
TEL AVIV – Mahmoud Abbas’ official Palestinian Authority television network broadcast a video of a young girl claiming, “Palestine is Arab, its land is Arab” and “treachery has been [the Jews’] nature from the days of Moses until today,” Palestinian
James McConnell — the Northern Irish Pastor charged with making “grossly offensive” remarks about Islam — has had his request for the “ridiculous” trial to be dropped rejected, and will be sentence next month. The prosecution told the Belfast Magistrates
Leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore is asking his followers to report Donald Trump for using “hate speech” on Facebook, in hopes of getting the GOP frontrunner banned from the social media site.
Greater Manchester Police investigates heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury for a hate crime as a result of recent remarks about homosexuals, pedophiles, women, and abortion.
The Left has gone stark raving mad since the San Bernardino shootings.
On Tuesday, Western Washington University (WWU) called off its classes on its main campus in Bellingham, WA, due to media posts that President Bruce Shepard called “hate speech targeted at Western students of color.”
The big social media services have been generally aggressive about purging ISIS content—if sometimes unable to keep up with the sheer volume of it. One example is the “Khilafah News” page on Facebook. The social media giant initially hesitated to take it down, but upon review, concluded that it does violate their community standards.
Donald Trump’s populist pitch just got an indirect shout-out from a very famous French intellectual and author, Michel Houellebecq
There is a new initiative in Germany that donates one euro for every “racist” (Islam is not a race) anti-migrant comment on the Internet. The “Hate Helps” propaganda campaign is organized by an NGO called Demokratische Kultur (ZDK), otherwise known as the Orwellian “Center for Democratic Action” in Germany. And it’s being funded by Facebook and Sky Germany. They will pay 1€ (euro) for each negative post about immigrants.
An organisation run by a former Stasi agent has been recruited by the German government to patrol Facebook in a bid to stamp out “xenophobic” comments. Those caught posting material that the government disagrees with are likely to face criminal
In a letter to the Thomas More Society public interest law firm, an attorney representing Office Depot says that the pro-life prayer its Schaumburg, Illinois store was asked to photocopy falls within the company’s definition of “hate material.”
A disabled veteran who placed a pro-cop message of “Police Lives Matter” on his truck claims to have become the victim of a vandalism attack.
Hate speech and graffiti calling for violence against cops has spread across Texas. Grafitti has recently appeared in both Austin, and in Houston, Texas. Violence-inflaming statements in Austin proclaim – “Run Over Cops At Traffic Stops; Shoot Them In The Cop Car!”
Reposted from the Investigative Project On Terrorism: Thirteen years, thirteen honor killings, all in Muslim families, all of them in Canada. But if you should condemn those murders, you might find yourself the subject of investigation and convicted of a
The activists assailed marchers representing Youth Defense, The Life Institute and Precious Life with chants of “Pro-life, that’s a lie, you don’t care if women die” and “Anti-women, anti-gay, pro-life bigots go away.” The pro-choice crowd also criticized the sizable presence of children and young people among the demonstrators, saying it was inappropriate for them to be there.
A newspaper in Harrisburg, PA has announced henceforth it intends to censor certain views about marriage deemed no better than racism, sexism, anti-Semitism.
CNN’s long, sordid, ugly, dishonest hate campaign against America law enforcement finally went too far, even for CNN, when weekend anchor Fredricka Whitfield gushed over how “courageous and brave” it was for a man using an armored car to launch
In a rare display of diplomatic indecorum, Margaret Archer, the president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, has lashed out at the author of a recent essay, accusing him of hate speech and moral depravity for questioning the Academy’s position on climate change.
Over several days this week, hundreds of anti-Semitic fliers have turned up on doorsteps in neighborhoods in Maryland and nearby Washington D.C., a report says.
On May 29, bikers in Pheonix, Arizona, are holding a “Draw Muhammad” contest outside the mosque at the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, which is where the two gunmen who opened fire in Garland, Texas, allegedly attended.
