Articles tagged government censorship

‘Preemptive punishment’: Constitutional law group sounds alarm over Online Harms bill

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has warned that the Trudeau government's Online Harms bill would 'empower judges to preemptively punish Canadians for speech crimes somebody 'fears' they may commit.'

News

Anthony Murdoch

• Mar 1, 2024Mar 4, 2024

Is the First Amendment dead? Freedom advocate tells Tucker about US gov’t censorship apparatus

The growth of huge social media platforms disrupted the government’s usual speech-control techniques, and it scrambled to find new ways to control what we learned as legacy media was shrinking in reach and respect.

Analysis

Clarice Feldman

• Feb 22, 2024Feb 23, 2024

Supreme Court to hear case on Biden admin censorship collusion with Big Tech

The forthcoming Supreme Court decision may decide the status of free speech in America. Though the First Amendment prohibits restrictions on free speech by federal agencies, the legality of federal influence over social media companies is not clearly defined.

Opinion

Frank Wright

• Feb 15, 2024Feb 15, 2024

How strict EU online censorship laws could stifle free speech in America

Global social media firms prioritize international standards over regional ones. Consequently, US free speech, protected by the First Amendment, may be indirectly affected by foreign laws.

Analysis

Didi Rankovic

• Feb 13, 2024Feb 28, 2024

Amazon caved to Biden White House pressure to censor books skeptical of COVID jabs

Amazon employees strategized for a meeting with the White House on March 9, 2021, openly asking whether the administration wanted the retailer to remove books from its catalog, according to emails obtained by the House Judiciary Committee.

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Tyler O'Neil

• Feb 6, 2024Feb 6, 2024

Elon Musk promises to fund legal challenges to Ireland’s proposed ‘hate speech’ laws

According to Musk, the ability of the Irish politicians to define hate speech based on personal interpretations poses a real danger to free speech, which he sees as fundamental to any democratic society.

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Cindy Harper

• Jan 29, 2024Jan 29, 2024

Tech CEO at WEF summit laments opposition to government-controlled media censorship

CEO of Center for Democracy and Technology Alexandra Reeve Givens decried efforts to inhibit government censorship powers on election information on social media.

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Didi Rankovic

• Jan 23, 2024Jan 23, 2024

Assistant AG tells House committee she’s ‘not familiar’ with major social media censorship lawsuit

The Biden official was unable to answer a question about the Missouri v. Biden case before the US Supreme Court.

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Ashley Sadler

• Dec 6, 2023Dec 7, 2023

How the Deep State is using the ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ to crush free speech

The Censorship Industrial Complex, dominated by organizations often run by ex-CIA agents, is working around the First Amendment to suppress dissent and promote a one-world government.

Analysis

Andreas Wailzer

• Nov 30, 2023Nov 30, 2023

Snowden, Assange, Jordan Peterson sound alarm on global censorship: ‘Crisis of humanity itself’

Prominent intellectuals, journalists, authors, and whistleblowers signed the anti-censorship ‘Westminster Declaration’ in support of free speech last month, warning that ‘regimes that eroded free speech have always inevitably weakened and damaged other core democratic structures.’

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Paul Bennett

• Nov 8, 2023Nov 8, 2023

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Articles tagged government censorship

‘Preemptive punishment’: Constitutional law group sounds alarm over Online Harms bill

Is the First Amendment dead? Freedom advocate tells Tucker about US gov’t censorship apparatus

Amazon caved to Biden White House pressure to censor books skeptical of COVID jabs

Elon Musk promises to fund legal challenges to Ireland’s proposed ‘hate speech’ laws

Assistant AG tells House committee she’s ‘not familiar’ with major social media censorship lawsuit

How the Deep State is using the ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ to crush free speech

Snowden, Assange, Jordan Peterson sound alarm on global censorship: ‘Crisis of humanity itself’