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Chancellor Angela Merkel railed against free speech in the German parliament, declaring that freedom of expression which offends “the dignity of other people” must be censored to secure a truly free society.

A recent poll revealed that over half of college students want to see their peers punished for wearing “offensive” Halloween costumes. The number is even higher at Ivy League and California State schools.

Massachusetts Democrat Daniel J. Hunt is driving a bill that would essentially make it illegal to call someone a “bitch” as part of his act “regarding the use of offensive words.”

London mayor Sadiq Khan’s controversial “Online Hate Crime Hub” has investigated 1,612 cases over two years — but secured only six convictions.

British police have announced they will not pursue charges against a Muslim taxi driver who threatened “any mother f**ker wants to convert to f**king Christianity, we’re both gonna f**k you up the a**e” in a viral video.

The House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing Thursday on how the tax code allegedly “subsidizes hate.”

Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza, who heads the Angel Families organization, has had her posts raising awareness about illegal immigrant crime removed from Facebook.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – The Metropolitan Amvrosios of Kalavryta, a fiery conservative Greek Orthodox bishop known for criticizing, often in intemperate terms, those who he believed acted in a “non-Christian” or “non-Greek” way, including gays, migrants, and politicians, has resigned.

A recent report claims that popular AI models are 1.5 times more likely to flag tweets by black users as “offensive” compared to tweets from other users.

Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga has announced that she will be starting an investigation into censorship of political views on social media in Hungary and across Europe.

In a recent wide-ranging interview with The Guardian, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki discussed many issues faced by the Google-owned platform such as asking where she should “draw the lines of free speech?”

Social media companies and Internet service providers must censor “hate speech,” said Democrat presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke on Wednesday while speaking with MSNBC. He linked President Donald Trump to “hate speech” — including descriptions of the president as a “racist” and “white supremacist” — in the same interview and subsequent statements.

The U.S. Catholic bishops issued a statement Thursday calling all Americans to a “change in language and rhetoric,” insisting that hateful language “can become the motivation for some to commit acts of violence.”

YouTube blacklisted Killing Europe, a documentary about Islam and mass immigration in Europe that had previously been hosted on the platform for over a year, just days after Amazon Prime made the same decision.

Politicians facilitating an “invasion” of illegal immigration are “contributing” to daily killings of Americas, said Mary Ann Mendoza.

PARIS (AP) – French lawmakers have approved a measure that is intended to force search engines and social networks to take hate speech off the internet.

Speaking at Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority event on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recalled when a Twitter executive couldn’t answer whether a tweet with Mother Theresa’s quote “Abortion is profoundly anti-woman” was considered hate speech by the social media platform.

A 52-year-old Swedish man has been convicted for “hate” comments posted in a social media group, despite the comments having been written by other people.

Facebook monitors the offline behavior of its users to determine if they should be categorized as a “Hate Agent,” according to a document provided exclusively to Breitbart News by a source within the social media giant.

“What a lot of these powerful voices on the LGBT left want to do is they want to create this authoritarian woke empire to where they make the rules about what is free speech and what is hate speech,” conservative commentator Rob Smith told Breitbart News’ Alana Mastrangelo on Thursday at Turning Point USA’s 2019 Young Women’s Leadership Summit.

The University of Washington Tacoma is working on a tool that will seek out “hate speech” on social media.

The Radiance Foundation has sent out a disturbing report regarding Big Tech censorship that targets Christians and social conservatives, claiming that Big Tech’s endgame is disruption of the democratic process.

Facebook has shut down 23 major populist Italian pages with 2.5 million followers just two weeks before the European elections.

The Swedish Defence Research Institute (FOI), along with other partners, have created a “hate speech robot” online and are asking members of the public to give it examples to form an algorithm to fight against “hate” on social media platforms.

National pro-life leaders celebrated a Senate hearing Wednesday on censorship by tech giants of pro-life voices and films.

YouTube shut down the ability for users to post comments on the livestream video of Tuesday’s congressional hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism, after users began flooding the live comment section with remarks it considers “hate speech.”

CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour asked fired FBI Director James Comey in an interview broadcasted Tuesday whether the bureau should have shut down the “lock her up” chant — a reference to the alleged crimes of failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — because it falls under the category of “hate speech.”

A 91-year-old Swedish man has been convicted of hate speech in the municipality of Bromölla after making disparaging comments about Islam and Muslims online.

Eventbrite banned the conservative organization, ACT for America, on Thursday over supposed violations of the platform’s “Community Guidelines.” The ban arrives just one week after a former Nancy Pelosi intern wrote a hit piece on the organization, relying on information provided by the discredited SPLC.

North Caroline State University’s student government held a town hall last week to discuss how they can create a better “racial climate” and a “safe learning environment” on campus. At the meeting, members of the Diversity Outreach Department called for amending the Student Code of Conduct to include “repercussions for hate speech.”

A manager at Google cautioned a lower-level employee for questioning the company’s stance on “fake news,” telling him that the company had to stop fake news and “hate speech,” because “that’s how Trump won,” according to a post aired publicly by another Google employee on social media.

Tech giants including Facebook and Google could face huge fines in the U.K. for not removing “toxic”or “harmful” content from their platforms.

French President Emmanuel Macron has floated the idea that those convicted for crimes of hate speech could be banned from social media networks permanently.

A Swedish court has convicted a 70-year-old man of “hate speech” for claiming on social media that Somalis are lazy and don’t work

A Swedish man in his 70s faced a court in the town of Uddevalla this week after social justice activists reported him to the police for labelling Somali migrants “lazy” on social media.

A transgender customer who lashed out at a male GameStop clerk is claiming to be a victim of “hate” for being called “sir” at the store.