Free Speech + Censorship

The ideal and limits of free speech and expression, and also the free access to information, as well as the various legal and extra-legal attempts at limiting that civil right. Censorship includes not only government actions against any media, published or not, but also the active suppression of such media by mainstream outlets. Unless a report is on free speech and/or censorship in general, it has been categorized in the subcategory of the country discussed.

A (Real) Holocaust Denier for Congressman

The San Francisco Chronicle printed a story last Friday (July 6, 2018) titled "Bay Area GOP candidate denies Holocaust, campaigns on anti-Semitism." As a Holocaust revisionist I was intrigued enough to visit the website of John Fitzgerald, Republican candidate for the 11th California Congressional district. At first glance, Mr. Fitzgerald seemed to be a solid populist…

California’s Ministry of Truth

In February, Californian State Senator Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) introduced  Senate Bill 1424; a law which would require the California Attorney General to create a new advisory committee. The advisory committee would be required to study how false information is spread online and come up with a plan for social-media platforms to fix the "problem." The committee would also…

Jared Taylor Wins a Round for Free Speech

Last December, Twitter purged numerous far-right, white-nationalist, and Holocaust-revisionist accounts as part of its updated "terms of service." In February Jared Taylor, founder of the publication American Renaissance, sued Twitter for banning his account, claiming the censorship “violated civil rights and contract law.” Rather than discuss the matter, Twitter came out nasty, claiming Taylor's suit violated its rights to free speech and was trying…

Steinmeier Apologizes

Germany's president Frank-Walter Steinmeier appeared at a monument to gay victims of National Socialism to ask for forgiveness for the suffering and injustice gays endured. Steinmeier spoke June 2nd in a ceremony marking the persecution of gays by the Hitler regime.Steinmeier claimed that more than 50,000 men were persecuted by the Nazis and were "tortured, sent to prisons and to concentration camps." Steinmeier went on to…

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