Category: freedom of speech

Justice Department Harasses Citizens for Exercising First Amendment Rights

Commentary The Justice Department has hit Eagle Forum of Alabama with a voluminous subpoena that violates the organization’s First Amendment rights to speak freely, engage in the political process, and talk to its elected representatives. It’s an intimidation tactic, pure and simple, and shows just how partisan the Justice Department has become. This out-of-control behavior should scare…


Disciplinary Hearing for BC Nurse Endorsing Sex-Based Rights Raises Concerns of ‘Policing Speech’: JCCF

A B.C. nurse is facing a disciplinary hearing after the province’s regulator for nurses and midwives alleged that her remarks about “sex-based rights” were “discriminatory” to transgender people. The hearing, which began on Sept. 21, raises concerns that Canadian regulatory bodies are “policing the speech” of professionals, a legal advocacy group says. In November 2020,…


COVID-19 Vaccine Harm Group Wary After Facebook Axes Discussion Forum

A British organisation representing those injured by COVID-19 vaccines has expressed concerns that legitimate discussion on social media could be threatened after a BBC investigation triggered Facebook into removing support groups. On Friday, the BBC reported that in response to one of its stories, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, had removed several vaccine injury support groups, including…


Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Exposed for ‘Ministry of Truth’ Dirty Work

Commentary The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is supposed to be a government entity that “works with partners to defend against today’s threats and collaborates to build a more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future.” Lately, however, it has instead been in the business of censoring information on private social media platforms,…


Judge Orders Fauci to Cough It Up

Commentary A lawsuit against the federal government—Anthony Fauci in particular—from the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana has been brewing for a good part of the summer of 2022. The issue concerns the censoring of certain high-level experts on social media, three of whom are senior scholars of the Brownstone Institute. We know for sure…


Booth Tarkington’s Essay ‘Freedom of Speech’: A Story of Two Men at the Brenner Pass

We each have personal opinions and thoughts that we like to discuss and compare with others. Whether on trivial or crucial matters, this discussion, enabled by freedom of speech, allows us to search for truth. “The Saturday Evening Post” commissioned the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington in 1943 to write an essay to accompany Norman…


Loophole in Police Oath Fosters ‘Woke Policing’: Former Officers

A change in the wording of the police oath twenty years ago has led to “woke policing” with former officers warning that social justice is getting in the way of actual legal justice. By adding to serve “fundamental human rights” to the oath of attestation, former policeman Harry Miller told The Epoch Times that he believes…


The Story Behind the Colonial Trial that Laid the Foundation for Establishing America’s Freedom of Press

When James Madison of Virginia, later the fourth president of the United States, wrote that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”—God-given rights ultimately enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution—there is little doubt that one thing on his mind was the trial of John Peter…


UK Online Safety Bill Likely to Impinge on Free Speech: Poll of Tech Experts

A survey by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, has found almost six out of 10 experts in the field believe the British government’s Online Safety Bill will have a detrimental impact on freedom of speech. Last month, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned, the government put the legislation on hold until his successor will be…


British Youtuber Alleges She Was Visited by Police for ‘Being Untoward About Paedophiles’

A feminist Youtuber was visited by police to “offer words of advice” after a complaint was made against comments in her video that the complainant felt were “inappropriate and offensive.” Jay Keen, who blogs under the name Posie Parker, is a women’s rights campaigner who also runs the organization Standing for Women, which she says…