Category: free speech

US Government Has Blackmail Database on Citizens; Pentagon Crawls Social Media for Critical Speech | Live with Josh

The U.S. government has been bypassing fourth amendment protections on surveilling Americans by purchasing the data from private companies. The workaround is raising legal concerns, and allegations that the database could be used for blackmail. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has a program to crawl social media websites for alleged disinformation. Yet this has also come with…


[LIVE 10AM ET] US Government Has Blackmail Database on Citizens; Pentagon Crawls Social Media for Critical Speech

The U.S. government has been bypassing fourth amendment protections on surveilling Americans by purchasing the data from private companies. The workaround is raising legal concerns, and allegations that the database could be used for blackmail. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has a program to crawl social media websites for alleged disinformation. Yet this has also come with…


Does Tucker Carlson Have Free Speech Rights?

Commentary In a free society, contracts do a great deal of heavy lifting. You do this and I’ll do that, always to our mutual benefit. When a dispute arises, an arbiter can check the words to see who is in breach. If some party has failed to comply with the terms, he or she pays…


RFK Jr. and the Assassination of Free Speech

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been heavily censored on social media, except for, most recently, Twitter. Are these moves by Meta an attempt to meddle in a free and fair election? Although Kennedy is a Democrat, his ideology is far from today’s woke leftism. RFK Jr. advocates questioning mainstream narratives and educating…


The Most Important Lawsuit in the United States Just Took Place in the Western District of Louisiana | Truth Over News

Back in May of 2022, the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana filed a lawsuit (pdf) seeking a preliminary injunction to stop Biden and his administration from colluding with social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to suppress free speech. At the time, it had just become known that Biden had set up a…


PREMIERING NOW: The Most Important Lawsuit in the United States Just Took Place in the Western District of Louisiana | Truth Over News

Back in May of 2022, the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana filed a lawsuit (pdf) seeking a preliminary injunction to stop Biden and his administration from colluding with social media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to suppress free speech. At the time, it had just become known that Biden had set up a…


The Line Between Free Speech and Anti-Discrimination

Jack Phillips, a cakemaker, and Lorie Smith, a graphic designer, want to use their artistry to create products and services that align with their faith, protected under the First Amendment. However, Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act compels companies to act against their beliefs and silences businesses from voicing their belief statements. After winning his first court case,…


The Woke Cartel and Twitter’s New CEO

Commentary On May 12, 2023, Elon Musk announced that Linda Yaccarino, the now former chairman of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, would become the new CEO of Twitter. Musk’s appointment of Yaccarino followed an advertiser exodus that caused Twitter’s ad revenue to plummet by more than 60 percent from October 2022 through Jan. 25, 2022, from…


5 Critical Points About America’s Speech Police

Commentary Recently I testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability for a vital hearing titled “Censorship Laundering: How the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Enables the Silencing of Dissent.” That hearing centered on the role of DHS sub-agency CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in censoring the speech…


‘Unholy Alliance’ of Woke Left and Islamist Right Is Destabilizing America: Asra Nomani

An unholy alliance of far leftists and fundamental Islamists is undermining the principle values of the United States, warned Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and advocate for reform in Islam. “There’s a war for the values of classical liberalism,” Nomani told host Jan Jekielek in an interview on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders”…