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Meinungsfreiheit ist die Grundlage einer freiheitlichen Gesellschaft. Das immer repressivere & autoritärere Vorgehen gegen Andersdenkende ist Gift für die Demokratie & zerstört die politische Debatte. Daher habe ich diese wichtige Initiative unterzeichnet. buendnisredefreiheit.ch/berl…
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The UK government has come up with a terrifying new proposal to create a Ministry of Truth: a "National Counter Disinformation Centre" with "a whole-of-society approach" to "identify and combat foreign information manipulation". Among their concerns is the "high bar" required to prove that disinformation was created at the "behest of a foreign power" meaning they want to the power to sweep up citizen dissent in their disinformation definition. publications.parliament.uk/p…
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The proposal also explicit seeks to increase the BBC's capacity for "hybrid warfare", proposing to increase its funding "drawn in part from the defence budget" to leverage the "UK’s soft power" to "counter information warfare." Its good to see some honesty about what the BBC actually is, however explicitly weaponising it will only further tarnish its already diminished reputation and lack of trust in its reporting.
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Huzzah! The consent decree in Missouri v. Biden is a historic victory for free speech in the US. Though I had to switch to the government side in the case after I became NIH director, I've never been more pleased by "losing" in my life. A huge win for all Americans.
We just won Missouri v. Biden. As Missouri’s Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families — censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent “misinformation” while they pushed their narrative on the American people. Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech. Missouri struck first—and Missouri won big. This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked. For every working Missouri family tired of being silenced by their own government: this victory is yours. The heartland fought back, and the heartland delivered.
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On Missouri v. Biden, you can read the Consent Decree for yourself. It is a mutual agreement, and such things are never clean and overwhelming victories. The plaintiffs have the edge, 51% vs 49%, that is true. And that is good, even wonderful. But don't look for a rousing victory for the first amendment. You won't find it. It's the best the plaintiffs could get and good for them. N.B. the victors on both sides are the lawyers. nclalegal.org/filing/exhibit…
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Government jawboning is wrong — whether the pressure is coming from a Republican administration or a Democratic one. While this settlement may provide some limited protection and is a step in the right direction, much more needs to be done to limit jawboning. Congress must pass legislation to end the practice for good by allowing Americans to hold federal officials personally accountable in court for censoring their speech through jawboning. Congress must also increase transparency in the government’s communications to social media companies and other speech platforms so that Americans are not left in the dark when their speech is censored by federal officials behind closed doors. How? We have some thoughts. ⬇️ fire.org/news/government-tra…
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In 2023, Missouri sued Biden’s admin for colluding with Big Tech to censor speech. I signed Missouri's amicus brief. We won! @CDCgov, @Surgeon_General, & @CISAgov can no longer deplatform First Amendment-protected speech. Congrats to @SenEricSchmitt for leading the fight!
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BREAKING: NCLA reaches historic settlement in Missouri v. Biden, striking a major blow against government-induced social media censorship. CDC, CISA and the U.S. Surgeon General are now barred from threatening social media companies into censoring constitutionally protected speech on their platforms. This is a major First Amendment victory earned by our clients @AaronKheriatyMD and Jill Hines of @HealthFreedomLA
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BREAKING: I am delighted to report that we finally achieved victory today in Missouri v. Biden, our case challenging government censorship on social media. CDC, CISA and the U.S. Surgeon General are now barred from threatening social media companies into censoring constitutionally protected speech on their platforms. Details here in the press release... nclalegal.org/press_release/…
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We just won Missouri v. Biden. As Missouri’s Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families — censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent “misinformation” while they pushed their narrative on the American people. Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech. Missouri struck first—and Missouri won big. This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked. For every working Missouri family tired of being silenced by their own government: this victory is yours. The heartland fought back, and the heartland delivered.
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Australia Is the World's Lab Rat for Internet Censorship Andrew Lowenthal (@NAffects) exposes how Australia quietly became the world's testing ground for digital censorship and now it's exporting that model globally. From age verification laws to misinformation bills, he breaks down how "safety" rhetoric is being used to hand governments sweeping power over online speech. And the scariest part? The UK, EU, and California are already taking notes. Full episode below.
🎙️ Why Censorship Is A Panic Response Ep. 126 with @NAffects Andrew Lowenthal is CEO of Liber-net and an Australian digital civil liberties researcher with over 25 years in human rights and technology. He led Engaged Media, worked with Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, and mapped the censorship industrial complex for Racket News. Andrew writes about digital authoritarianism, surveillance, and free expression. Recently he testified before the EU Parliament and continues exposing how legacy institutions bleeding trust respond with censorship rather than transparency. → Please like, comment, share & follow — to help me beat the suppressing algo's. Thank you! 00:00 - Coming Up... 01:17 - Intro to Andrew Lowenthal 03:30 - Censorship Status in USA, Australia, UK, Europe 08:50 - The Political Shift in Australia & “One Nation” Party 13:05 - Ad-Break: Ledn & Trezor 19:05 - Australia's Age Verification Law & Substack's Voluntary Compliance 23:11 - The New Hate Speech Law, Bondi Attack & Gov. Overreach 33:00 - Australia’s Hate Speech Laws History 36:55 - Ad-Break: Abundant Mines & New Totalitarian Order Conference 39:14 - Mapping the Censorship Industrial Complex 45:20 - Speech Police Via NGOs & Government Funding 50:10 - Australia’s e-Safety Office: Policing Speech & Node In Global Censorship Industrial Complex 59:40 - Australia’s Economical Downturn & Recession 1:01:50 - Censorship As Part of UN’s Agenda 2030 1:04:49 - 2017 Council of Europe Document & Germany Censorship Analysis 1:11:11 - Are Speech Crimes Now Treated On Par With Violent Crimes? 1:17:23 - Bitcoin & Nostr: Decentralized, Censorship Resistant Protocols 1:22:54 - The End Game: Keeping Legacy Parties in Power 1:28:30 - Follow Andrew's Work
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🎙️ Why Censorship Is A Panic Response Ep. 126 with @NAffects Andrew Lowenthal is CEO of Liber-net and an Australian digital civil liberties researcher with over 25 years in human rights and technology. He led Engaged Media, worked with Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, and mapped the censorship industrial complex for Racket News. Andrew writes about digital authoritarianism, surveillance, and free expression. Recently he testified before the EU Parliament and continues exposing how legacy institutions bleeding trust respond with censorship rather than transparency. → Please like, comment, share & follow — to help me beat the suppressing algo's. Thank you! 00:00 - Coming Up... 01:17 - Intro to Andrew Lowenthal 03:30 - Censorship Status in USA, Australia, UK, Europe 08:50 - The Political Shift in Australia & “One Nation” Party 13:05 - Ad-Break: Ledn & Trezor 19:05 - Australia's Age Verification Law & Substack's Voluntary Compliance 23:11 - The New Hate Speech Law, Bondi Attack & Gov. Overreach 33:00 - Australia’s Hate Speech Laws History 36:55 - Ad-Break: Abundant Mines & New Totalitarian Order Conference 39:14 - Mapping the Censorship Industrial Complex 45:20 - Speech Police Via NGOs & Government Funding 50:10 - Australia’s e-Safety Office: Policing Speech & Node In Global Censorship Industrial Complex 59:40 - Australia’s Economical Downturn & Recession 1:01:50 - Censorship As Part of UN’s Agenda 2030 1:04:49 - 2017 Council of Europe Document & Germany Censorship Analysis 1:11:11 - Are Speech Crimes Now Treated On Par With Violent Crimes? 1:17:23 - Bitcoin & Nostr: Decentralized, Censorship Resistant Protocols 1:22:54 - The End Game: Keeping Legacy Parties in Power 1:28:30 - Follow Andrew's Work
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1) BRITS SPIED ON ME ACCORDING TO MEMO MARKED “STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL”. A Labour Party lied to me when I asked if I was one of the reporters. I'm releasing Labour's memo where I'm a "significant person of interest."
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How Politicians Smear The World, Vol. 1: The Contract As the scandal involving British spying on journalists deepens, we're learning more about connections to earlier scandals in the U.S. and beyond. Part One in a Series racket.news/p/how-politician…
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The great news is that the increasingly authoritarian UK government can’t ban a decentralized VPN like @nym, although they can easily ban centralized VPNs. Long live UNSTOPPABLE freedom of information! By banning VPNs the UK is joining the august company of Iran and China.
🚨Starmer announces Labour will pursue draconian measures to clamp down on internet usage - including a VPN ban - via his Substack: "We will be going to Parliament for new government powers, enabling us to act on the findings of the social media consultation where the evidence suggests we need to. This could include: -Setting a minimum age limit for social media: unlike the Tories, who took years to pass the Online Safety Act, we will take powers that would allow us to implement a minimum age for social media in a matter of months to prevent kids from accessing harmful social media. -Restricting specific functionalities: that are detrimental to kids’ wellbeing and keep them hooked to their screens like endless scroll or autoplay -Limiting VPN access for kids: to make it harder for kids to get around age limits of services or certain functionalities."
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"The EU has built a censorship-industrial complex of massive proportions, designed to control the public narrative, marginalise critical voices — and even interfere directly in elections" @battleforeurope open.substack.com/pub/tfazi/…
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Officials with the lowest approval ratings in the world (Macron, Starmer, Merz, Sanchez) are the loudest champions of social media bans for teens and ‘misinformation’ crackdowns.
Replying to @EmmanuelMacron
World leader’s disapproval rating: 🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron: 77% 🇬🇧 Keir Starmer: 68% 🇩🇪 Friedrich Merz: 64% 🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez: 61% 🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa: 57% 🇦🇹 Christian Stocker: 53% 🇸🇪 Ulf Kristersson: 53% 🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni: 53% 🇳🇴 Jonas Gahr Støre: 52% 🇧🇷 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: 51% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump: 51% 🇵🇱 Donald Tusk: 50% 🇹🇷 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: 49% 🇲🇽 Claudia Sheinbaum: 49% 🇧🇪 Bart de Wever: 48% 🇳🇱 Dick Schoof: 47% 🇦🇺 Anthony Albanese: 47% 🇨🇦 Mark Carney: 38% 🇦🇷 Javier Milei: 37% 🇰🇷 Lee Jae-myung: 33% 🇨🇭 Karin Keller-Sutter: 29% 🇨🇿 Andrej Babiš: 29% 🇯🇵 Sanae Takaichi: 24% 🇮🇳 Narendra Modi: 23% Source: Morning Consult
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And McSweeney is the co-founder of censorship organisation the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Control the information domain, control the politics, control the country.
Peter Mandelson was directly involved in helping Morgan McSweeney select Labour’s parliamentary candidates ahead of the 2024 general election. This is despite his past misbehaviour. It was all part of the purge of the left and push Labour to the right. archive.ph/FXGiY
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Der Forscher Andrew Lowenthal (Fellow am Berkman Center for Internet and Society der Harvard University) hat in den USA das Zusammenspiel aus Geheimdiensten, Regierungsstellen und digitalen Plattformen untersucht. Jetzt hat er sich Deutschland vorgenommen. Es geht um «Meldestellen» und private, aber staatlich mitfinanzierte NGO.
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As per the plan, Australia's @eSafetyOffice is catalysing governments around the world to take up their teen social media ban (aka adult internet identification law). Australia was the first, but it won't be the last unless people speak out!
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: Starting next week, my government will implement the following actions: First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites. Second, we will turn algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense. Third, we will implement a hate and polarization footprint system to track, quantify, and expose how digital platforms fuel division and amplify hate. Fourth, Spain will ban access to social media for minors under the age of 16. Platforms will be required to implement effective age verification systems — not just checkboxes, but real barriers that work. Fifth and last, my government will work with our public prosecutor to investigate and pursue the infringement committed by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.
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