Many Canadians consider their country to be a free one, but unfortunately the Trudeau government is moving toward levels of censorship and control over language that should gravely concern those who support freedom of expression. The shaky grounds of Canadian free speech For those unfamiliar with Canadian laws, especially Americans, any discussion of possible state censorship in Canada often begins... 

The “leader of the free world” has gone completely mad. It is now expanding its internal censorship internationally. Not only they censor their own citizens from literally anything but now they are seeking to censor foreign countries. The seizure of Press TV’s .com domain is the work of a “gangster regime,” a political analyst says. “The action of the US government in seizing these... 

I once thought the internet would have the same effect on corporate media gatekeepers as the AK-47 had on colonial empires in Africa. That was before Big Tech turned that promise of freedom into the second coming of feudalism. Wednesday’s decision by Facebook’s “oversight board” – a transparent attempt to outsource responsibility for censorship to an international committee – to extend... 

The UK is turning its broadcast regulator into the Hatefinder General, with a new law compelling social media companies to enforce an authoritarian crackdown on our behaviour that’s ‘unprecedented in any democracy’. As the British nanny state widens its scope with the government’s new Online Safety Bill it is a sign that the German concept of wehrhafte Demokratie – or militant democracy... 

Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of Google’s video platform YouTube, was awarded the Freedom Forum Institute’s ‘Free Expression Award’ on Friday in a ceremony sponsored by her own company – despite YouTube’s track record of censorship. In the digital awards ceremony, YouTube video creator Molly Burke praised Wojcicki as a free speech leader before the YouTube CEO detailed in her acceptance speech... 

In October 2020 a French history and geography teacher Samuel Paty, 47, was beheaded after he showed students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson on free speech. Muslims consider it “haram” or forbidden to draw a picture of the Prophet, let alone a cartoon. Dozens of Muslim protesters are protesting for the second day outside a school in the north of England where a teacher has... 

Bernie Sanders is not “particularly comfortable” with the Twitter ban imposed on former president Donald Trump following the January 6 Capitol riot, saying it is indicative of a trend toward silencing “different points of view.” Speaking on the Ezra Klein Show podcast on Tuesday, the US senator from Vermont said he was uncomfortable with the idea of a “handful of high-tech people” having... 

In complete contradiction to the official narrative of the Anti-Defamation League, online so-called “hate speech” does not, in fact, lead to an increase in real-world hate crimes, according to a suppressed Federal report: The report was sent to Congress by the Department of Commerce in January, but is yet to appear on any government website. The report….was prepared by the National Telecommunications... 

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from Parler from offensive jokes, despite the site claiming repeatedly to be pro-free speech. Parler came back online for many users on Monday, after being kicked off of the internet and app stores by the Big Tech giants determined to shut the site down, claiming the conservative-oriented social media platform hosted violent content, and attempted... 

Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said the aim of the bill was to give internet users the feeling that their rights are protected and that their posts cannot be arbitrarily removed from online platforms: The full name of the bill is the law on freedom of expressing one’s own views and searching and disseminating information on the internet. Under its provisions, social media services will not be... 

The largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, surged to a record high of near $44,000 on Monday following the news that Tesla has invested $1.5 billion in the digital asset and expects to start accepting it as payment. Bitcoin soared almost ten percent as of 13:44 GMT to trade at $43,969, closing in on an all-time high reached in early January. US electric car maker Tesla confirmed on Monday in its annual... 

A leaked email written by a Facebook employee hints that the social media giant may review its policy on allowing the term “Zionist” — but anti-Israel groups are arguing that such a move would endanger free speech on Israel issues: In the email dated Nov. 10, the unidentified employee wrote to an unidentified source: “We are looking at the question of how we should interpret attacks on ‘Zionists’... 

Gab.com, the free speech friendly social network, says traffic has increased by more than 750 percent in the past few days, following the blacklisting of President Donald Trump from most mainstream tech platforms. “Our traffic is up 753% in the past 24 hours. Tens of millions of visits,” said Gab in response to a question about slow loading speeds. The free speech network announced that it would... 

World’s biggest liberal and pro-invasion of Europe advocate, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has concerns that Twitter’s “problematic” suspension of Donald Trump’s account, in the wake of last week’s assault on the Capitol, is an encroachment on freedom of opinion, her spokesman said. As bad as she is, well at least she once in her lifetime said something good. Steffan... 

The Jerusalem Post is reporting that after Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine condemned the honoring of alleged Nazi “collaborators” in the former Soviet republic, dozens of people rallied outside the Israeli Embassy in Kiev demanding that Jews apologize and repent for their role in orchestrating the 1930s genocide during which over 10 million Ukrainians were murdered: The far-right activists called...