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The upper house of the national legislature in Japan passed a bill Monday that would punish people convicted of making online insults with up to one year in prison and fines of up to $2,231, Kyodo News reported.

New York will now require social media companies to report “hateful conduct,” Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced on Monday.

India’s ruling BJP Party on Sunday suspended spokeswoman Nupur Sharma and permanently expelled Delhi regional media director Naveen Kumar Jindal after they made televised comments critical of Islam’s Muhammad and his child bride, Aisha.

A number of NGOs in Europe are pushing for the population to use China-style software to report instances of racism, hate speech and “digital violence” to them.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Wednesday announced plans to create a police unit designed to, in part, combat “hate speech” in the wake of the tragic shooting in Buffalo, promising to “confront this epidemic head-on.”

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Buffalo, NY Mayor Byron Brown (D) argued that “False information, hateful information,” and “attempts to indoctrinate people in different forms of hate and violence on the Internet and on the airwaves of this nation

London’s leftist Mayor joined the long list of political figures queuing up to tell Elon Musk how Twitter should be run if he buys it.

The mayor for the city region of Liverpool, England has claimed advertisements on buses promoting an appearance by American evangelist Reverend Franklin Graham constitute “hate speech” and should be removed.

Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde reportedly cried during a company meeting on Monday in response to Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform. 

A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has demanded that Elon Musk keeps Twitter ‘responsible’ through content censorship.

Another big tech clampdown on free speech online appears to be forthcoming after the European Union agreed in principle more online censorship laws on Saturday.

Male-to-female transgender police in the UK are fully permitted to strip-search biologically female suspects according to newly seen police guidelines.

A Scottish man has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service after being found guilty of writing a “grossly offensive” tweet.

Former Finnish Interior Minister Räsänen was acquitted by a Helsinki court of incitement over statements and bible verses.

Ukraine’s ‘Democratic’ government has demanded that all countries across the world ‘criminalize’ the use of Russia’s ‘Z’ symbol.

Graham Linehan, the cancelled co-creator of Father Ted, has once again defied the trans lobby by insisting that ‘women are real’.

Federal police in Germany have conducted mass raids across 13 states on Tuesday over online ‘insults’ levelled against politicians.

Meta Platforms Inc. allowed posts specifically calling for the “death” of Russian President Vladimir Putin to remain on its social media platforms Instagram and Facebook in recent days, Reuters reported Monday, citing internal Meta emails.

One of Britain’s leading police watchdogs has slammed British law enforcement’s actions regarding ‘hate’, telling them that there is no such thing as ‘thought crime’.

Legislation making its way through the Canadian Parliament would allow citizens to be taken to court and penalized if they are suspected of simply intending to post “hate speech” online.

Ireland’s parliament is currently considering a new media law that would push for the creation and dissemination of climate change propaganda.

UK officials fear that their deep state has sprung a leak, with ministers suspecting that a civil servant is sending secret info to ex-Deputy PM-turned-Facebook bigwig Nick Clegg.

Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel is set to sign off on a new bill that will ban so-called ‘anti-vaxxer’ protests from taking place at jab centres and schools. 

Priti Patel’s UK Home Office has demanded that tech giants block ‘legal but harmful’ content posted on their services.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday proposed passing laws in Brazil to “combat” communism, Latin America’s Infobae news website reported on Thursday.

German investigators have found nearly 400 cases of online hate speech related to last week’s shooting of two police officers.

A further tightening of criminal restrictions on online speech is being looked at by the UK’s Conservative Party government.

Germany’s Minister for the Interior, Nancy Faeser has reportedly backtracked on previous threats she made against the popular messenger app Telegram

Presidential hopeful Zemmour came under fire for saying reducing immigration to zero would decrease levels of crime.

Christian Democrat former government minister Päivi Räsänen is being tried over a tweet that included a Bible verse.

The creator of Father Ted has said that online “trolls” and “conmen” have used UK Hate Speech rules to weaponise the police.

The Social Democratic Party’s Olaf Scholz has been elected Chancellor of Germany, marking the end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year reign.

The migrant crime comments hate speech trial for French conservative commentator Eric Zemmour, a presidential hopeful, began on Wednesday.

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”.

French Communist Party (PCF) presidential candidate Fabien Roussel has called for those convicted of racism or hate crimes to be ineligible for public office.

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s most senior police officer will stay in her job for another two years, the government announced Friday. The decision comes despite criticism of her force over its handling of some investigations and policing of protests.