The Number Of Jailed Journalists Reaches Record High
By Tyler Durden n 2022, more journalists than ever before were imprisoned for doing their job. As Statista’s Martin Armstrong reports, some 363 journalists were imprisoned in…
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Meet the VLOPs! The EU Extends its Censorship Powers
By Robert Kogon On Tuesday this week, the European Commission announced its first list of designated Very Large Online Platforms – or VLOPs – that…
The Censorship-Industrial Complex
By Andrew Lowenthal I knew things were bad in my world, but the truth turned out to be much worse than I could have imagined….
What is the Global Disinformation Index?
By David McGrogan In a previous article, I described how raison d’État – the doctrine by which the State acts in its own interests and ignores constraints…
The War on Free Speech Is Really a War on the Right to Criticize the Government
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence…
The Tower For Twitter? UK Minister Calls For Jailing Social-Media Bosses Who Do Not Censor Speech
By Jonathan Turley As previously discussed, after Musk decided to buy Twitter, Hillary Clinton called upon European countries to force social-media companies to censor Americans….
Congresswoman Threatens Matt Taibbi with Years in Prison Over Reporting on Twitter Files
By Matt Agorist Continuing the chilling display of corruption and authoritarianism put out by the Biden administration, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, the Democratic delegate representing the…
Oracle Drops UK-Based Disinfo Nannies After Conservative Blacklisting Cited In Lawsuit
By Tyler Durden Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner is out with another report on the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a UK-based group which targets…
The STOP CSAM Act Would Put Security and Free Speech at Risk
By Mario Trujillo, by Andrew Crocker, by Sophia Cope A new U.S. Senate bill introduced this week threatens security and free speech on the internet….
Speak Your Truth: Don’t Let the Government Criminalize Free Speech
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to…
Cancel Culture: The Digital Panopticon
By Julian Adorney The panopticon is a hypothetical surveillance and control system first imagined by philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the eighteenth century. It’s envisioned as…
The Digital Iron Curtain: How the RESTRICT Act Threatens to Devastate Privacy and Crush Free Speech Online
By Matt Agorist In an era where the world has become more Orwellian than Orwell himself could have ever imagined, it should come as no…
Revolutionary New Media: Enlightened Podcasts
By Neenah Payne The US Founding Fathers regarded the media (newspapers then) as “The Fourth Estate” responsible for speaking truth to power, informing the public,…
Appeals Court Upholds Restriction on Twitter’s First Amendment Right to Publish National Security Transparency Report
By Andrew Crocker A ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week marks a new low in judicial deference to classification and…