While El Salvador’s Security Improves, It Loses Ground in Freedom of Press
By Melissa Vida In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele is popular. The Twitter-savvy entrepreneur arrived at the presidency on June 1, 2019, without a clear…
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European Court’s Decision in Right To Be Forgotten Case is a Win for Free Speech
By David Greene In a significant victory for free speech rights, the European Union’s highest court ruled that the EU’s Right to Be Forgotten does…
This is How the Elite Will Shut Down Your Free Speech
Op-Ed by Kurt Nimmo It might be time to get off Gab, Voat, and other “white supremacist” social media sites. These are not bona fide…
Facebook’s Social Media Council Leaves Key Questions Unanswered
By Corynne McSherry and Kit Walsh Facebook took big step forward this week in its march to create an “oversight board” to help vet its…
Whitney Webb on The Orwellian Digital News “Trust”
By The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow There is a whole new gaggle of supposed non-profit, non-political organizations claiming to offer new standards of transparency…
Edward Snowden Responds After Trump DOJ Sues Whistleblower Over New Memoir the US Government “Does Not Want You to Read”
By Julia Conley Citing what First Amendment advocates have called an “unconstitutional” system of controlling what federal employees can and cannot say about their work,…
Martial Law Masquerading as Law and Order: The Police State’s Language of Force
By John W. Whitehead “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who…
Victory! Individuals Can Force Government to Purge Records of Their First Amendment Activity
By Aaron Mackey The FBI must delete its memo documenting a journalist’s First Amendment activities, a federal appellate court ruled this week in a decision…
Google, Twitter, Facebook Met Government Officials To Devise Election Measures
By Aaron Kesel Representatives for Google, Facebook and Twitter met with DHS officials at Facebook’s headquarters to devise 2020 election measures against the spread of…
It’s Official: US Visa Can Be Denied If You or Your Friends Are Critical of American Policies
By Philip Giraldi There have been several interesting developments in the United States government’s war on free speech and privacy. First of all, the Department…
WaPo Warns USA Needs More Narrative Control As Pentagon Ramps Up Narrative Control
By Caitlin Johnstone Do you lay awake at night terrified that the Russians are able to control your mind with information warfare while the US…
Establishment Right and Left Call for COINTELPRO 2.0
Op-Ed by Kurt Nimmo Both heads of the two-headed establishment political hydra want to resurrect COINTELPRO, the FBI’s illegal subversion program, in response to speech…
YouTube Just Purged 17,000 Channels For Hate Speech, Some Broke NO RULES AT ALL
By Timcast AP editor’s note: While many people still maintain that this has been a purge of primarily conservative voices, there are also examples of…
FEC, Social Media Giants Powwow on Circumventing First Amendment
By Kurt Nimmo It’s hardly surprising The New York Times and The Washington Post didn’t bother to report on the rally at the British Home…