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

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.

Supposedly “nonpartisan” groups are influencing ad companies behind the scenes to blacklist conservative websites under the guise of fighting what they consider to be “disinformation.”

The government is reportedly considering a measure to force social media companies to ban misogyny online as a part of the Online Safety Bill.

The CIA was among a number of security state agencies, including the State Department and the Pentagon, involved in censorship at Twitter, according to the ninth tranche of Twitter Files released by Elon Musk, via journalist Matt Taibbi.

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.

French President Emmanuel Macron demanded that Elon Musk abides by European Union restrictions on speech on Twitter in a meeting on Friday.

Andrew Tate has seen his account reinstated on Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover of the Silicon Valley tech giant.

Europe’s largest car manufacturer, which was founded in 1937 by the German Labour Front under the direction of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party, suspended advertising on Twitter this week following Elon Musk’s plans to water down the censorious ‘content moderation’ that has become a hallmark of the microblogging site in recent years.

Elon Musk has been told that Twitter must continue censoring “digital hate” by London Mayor Sadiq Khan and the EU’s Thierry Breton.

Former British Deputy PM turned Facebook (Meta) executive Sir Nick Clegg has been accused of accepting bribes from the adult website OnlyFans.

Andrew Tate’s move to Rumble saw the influencer rake in over 130,000 live viewers after he was banned by Silicon Valley social media sites.

Laurence Fox, the star of Breitbart’s upcoming film My Son Hunter — which tells the story of Hunter Biden, whose laptop was the subject of perhaps the most significant act of political censorship in the history of the United States — has become a champion of freedom of speech in Britain, personally taking on a police force for arresting a British Army veteran for posting a meme on Facebook.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Jesús Faría, Venezuelan socialist party lawmaker, admitted on July 5 — Venezuela’s Independence Day — that the Maduro regime actively engages in internet censorship by brazenly reminding Venezuelans, “you can’t say whatever you like.”

Rumours, falsehoods, and hate speech should be suppressed by social media, according to a World Economic Forum “freedom of the press” panel.

Georgia GOP primary voters consistently say they prefer populist policy solutions to fight corporate influence in the nation’s elections and immigration system. 

Ireland’s leftist president has decried the purchasing of social media companies by billionaires as a “form of dictatorship” on a TV station owned by the Irish state.

The Chinese Communist Party’s public security department recently pursued criminal charges against “25 rumormongers and imposed administrative penalties on 48 others” for promoting allegedly false accounts online about the Party’s anti-epidemic measures during Shanghai’s ongoing Chinese coronavirus lockdown, the state-run Global Times reported on Wednesday.

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.

Elon Musk has seemingly kowtowed to the EU on internet free speech, declaring he is “exactly aligned” with the bloc’s censorship regulations.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) blasted the Biden administration over the creation of the Disinformation Governance Board, explaining that they are attempting to “stifle dissent, to try to elevate a chosen political narrative that’s endorsed by the regime” — a move that is contrary to a “free society.” 

British parliamentarians have summoned billionaire Elon Musk over his acquisition of Twitter and his plans to revive free speech.

Weibo, a Chinese microblogging platform, announced on Thursday plans to publish the IP addresses of all Weibo users both on their individual account pages and whenever they post comments, stating it was part of an effort to prevent “bad behavior” online, Reuters reported.

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.

Silicon Valley giant Twitter censored a Shakespearean scholar in Britain for quoting a famous line from the Bard’s Henry VI, Part 2.

Several Russian celebrities risked a potential exposure ban by state media this week through their public protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Fortune magazine reported.

Journalists who covered the Genocide Games are finally speaking out to say that China blocked their access to the Internet.

Scottish comedians Count Dankula and Leo Kearse have defended Jimmy Carr’s right to be offensive amid calls for the star to be canceled.

Many things previously described as “misinformation” are “now accepted as fact,” Joe Rogan said after Spotify’s new “approach to COVID-19.”

News media coverage of COVID-19 information is corrupted due to conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies, James O’Keefe said.

“I bet I could get some f*****g pain pills quicker than I could get monoclonal antibodies,” UFC President Dana White said in regards to the rationing of monoclonal antibodies for treatment of COVID-19 during a press conference on Saturday following the UFC 45 Vegas in Las Vegas, NV.

A clear majority of 57 percent of fascist Democrats approve of Big Tech censoring content on their platforms.

Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed the impact of Big Tech censorship and its control over the flow of digital information.

Emma Jo Morris said her reporting on Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” helpd alerts Americans of political censorship from Big Tech companies.

Twitter trolls and purveyors of “disinformation” will potentially face jail time in the UK under a series of anti-free speech measures.

“You cannot have a republic if you can’t have confidence in elections,” Mollie Hemingway, author of Rigged, said on Sunday.