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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced supposed American authoritarianism while speaking in a country that does pre-dawn raids over internet posts. She quite literally seemed to forget where she stood.

President Joe Biden and his administration spent four years continuously attacking the First Amendment and the free speech rights enshrined by the nation’s Founders. 

The Biden administration’s censorship efforts ran the gamut from coercing and colluding with Big Tech platforms to silence his opponents; using taxpayer dollars to fund censorship organizations that pledged to cancel…

The blog criticizes the barring of far-right candidate Calin Georgescu from Romania's presidential election re-run, suggesting it undermines democracy. Romania's election authority acted after the Constitutional Court called off a previous election amid Russian interference claims. The incident has sparked a transatlantic debate on democratic values, with the U.S. and European sides divided on…

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr used a Barcelona conference to let the world know where America stands on free speech. 

European bureaucrats eager to crack down on free speech seek major leverage over American social media platforms, House Republicans warned on Sunday.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough repeatedly condemns European leaders who brand as racists and neo-Nazis people who are opposed to open borders. Scarborough ignores the fact that he has made his stock in trade, calling Donald Trump a Nazi, a fascist, and Hitler for expressing similar views.

On CNN This Morning, Dispatch co-founder Jonah Goldberg says Trump has a "goldfish's memory" of history, but that he subscribes to a 19th-century notion of spheres of influence. He thus sees the US's sphere of influence as the Americas and Europe, while Putin and Xi have their spheres of influence, in which Putin gets Ukraine, Xi gets Taiwan, and the US gets Panama. Per Goldberg, Trump…

It was a deeply weird Sunday at CBS. Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan argued that free speech led to the Holocaust, as if the Nazis allowed free speech. Then 60 Minutes promoted German prosecutors fining and jailing people for "hate speech" on social media. CBS likes a little "German order" on the internet. Jorge Bonilla joins the show to ponder the CBS mysteries.

Vice President JD Vance denounced German censorship after a major legacy media player acted as an apologist for the authoritarian practices in the European country. 

Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at a security conference in Munich touched on the many ways Europe has become more authoritarian and elitist, from annulling elections in Romania, to throwing people in jail for online wrong-think, to outlawing silent prayer vigils in Scotland. Yet the New York Times treated the speech with utter contempt, ignoring Vance’s call for freedom while…

Vice President JD Vance tore into Europe’s abandonment of free speech and authoritarian approach to defending democracy. 

As Big Tech and the U.S. government take steps away from their past censorship abuses, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) issued a warning to the anti-free speech bureaucrats across the pond. 

While the European Union (EU) is infamous for its contempt for free speech, it may have sunk to a new low by reportedly going after a religious app.

A host of major social media platforms made a disturbing capitulation to European Union censors.