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New South Wales (NSW) Labor Party premier Chris Minns on Wednesday apologized to the Jewish community for the vicious “Gas the Jews” pro-Hamas rally at the famed Sydney Opera House on Monday night, acknowledging the heinous display made Jews feel unsafe and prevented them from commemorating the victims of the Hamas atrocity.

A Conservative politician was arrested in England for the hate crime of sharing a video showing the detention of a Christian street preacher.

A British police force backed down after they arrested an autistic girl over saying that a female officer looked like her “lesbian nana”.

The Michigan state House passed controversial legislation which would essentially criminalize making someone in a protected class “feel” frightened or threatened.

Impending hate speech legislation is about “restricting freedom” for the “common good”, the Irish Green Party chairwoman said this week.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday touted his proposal for a “Global Digital Compact,” which would include planet-wide laws against “hate and lies in the digital space.” 

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

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

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

The German government is looking to grant powers to courts to block the social media accounts of citizens who engage in ‘digital violence’.

Legislation has been introduced that would enact safe zones, banning protests within 100 metres of a drag show, with fines up to $25,000.

Germany launched procedures to fine Twitter for alleged failures to remove “illegal” content on the platform, such as hate speech and insults.

French LGBT groups have filed a criminal complaint against feminists over comments on allowing transgender women in women’s spaces. 

Brazil’s Minister of Justice and Public Security Flavio Dino defended on Monday the need to regulate social media in Brazil to prevent “hate speech” on the internet.

A Christian street preacher was reported to the UK’s counter-terrorism police after saying that a so-called “transwoman” was really a “man in woman’s clothing”.

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 senior official within the Irish government has discussed giving migrants special protections under the state’s coming hate speech laws.

Scientist and social commentator Richard Dawkins has spoken out against woke efforts to scrap “binary” terms like “female” in favour of “inclusive” terms like “egg producing” in science. 

Populist Reconquest MEP Nicolas Bay has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity after allegations of “hate speech” over criticism of a mosque development in northern France.

The United States will soon implement laws against so-called hate speech, a top Eurocrat claimed at the World Economic Forum.

Political and media figures in Ireland are demanding that protesting the country’s asylum crisis in front of migrant housing centres should be made illegal.

Elon Musk has agreed that Twitter must continue to combat “disinformation” ahead of coming EU censorship plans, a German minister has claimed.

Ireland’s Children’s Minister has publicly called for “transgender issues” to be taught to children in elementary schools.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) responded to a question on what he will do to make sure there are penalties for disinformation about elections by claiming that “There’s no guarantee to free speech

Brussels has reportedly summoned tech-billionaire Elon Musk to the European Parliament to discuss “hate speech” problems in relation to his social media network, Twitter.

A Norwegian filmmaker is facing up to three years in jail for posting on Facebook that male-to-female transgenders can’t be lesbians — an apparent violation of the country’s hate speech laws.

Government ministers have been accused of pushing “thought policing” hate speech laws that could see people jailed for so much as possessing material that is deemed to be hateful.

Legendary Greek footballer Vassilis Tsiartas has been given a 10-month suspended prison sentence over comments critical of child sex changes. 

Elon Musk is to meet the EU’s internal market chief after the bloc demanded that Twitter keeps censoring free speech.

Those who use so-called “hate speech” will soon be jailed for up to five years under new legislation published on Thursday.

Britain’s police have come under criticism again after they arrested a mother of five for allegedly posting offensive statements online.

A police force in the UK has been slammed for demanding the public not “misgender” a “transgender” pedophile convicted abusing of seven children.

Britain’s new culture secretary has strongly hinted that Prime Minister Liz Truss will drop China-like restrictions on “legal but harmful” speech from the controversial Online Safety Bill.

William Jacobson noted how the ADL boosted its fundraising after aligning itself with the Black Lives Matter campaign digital censorship.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, in an telephone interview given to Argentina’s Radio 10 on Sunday, suggested that the government of Argentina should implement a “hate speech” law, similar to the one passed by his regime in 2017, following the alleged assassination attempt against Argentina’s vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Thursday.

Home Office figures showed just 6.3 per cent of domestic burglaries and four per cent of thefts resulted in criminal charges.