RT Christopher Landau (@DeputySecState)This great news reinforces the point I made yesterday: the Administration of @POTUS @realDonaldTrump will neither facilitate nor tolerate surveillance or censorship by foreign governments on American soil. There is no “foreign government request” exception to the First Amendment. 🗽🇺🇸 ...

The US Institute of Peace campaigned for global hate speech laws to criminalize online speech, all while knowing it was illegal under the First Amendment. https://t.co/4fKmbg6jPT ...

separation between church and state. They told me, I said, "All right, let's forget about that for one time." We said, "Uh, really the separation? I don't know. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I'm not sure. But whether there's separation or not, you guys are in the White House where you should be and you're representing our country and we're bringing religion back to our country and uh it's a big deal." Was President Trump at the White House in May questioning the Constitution's separation of church an ...

>> SALE AT SONIC SMOOTH COMM. >> I'M BACK WITH MILES TAYLOR, FORMER DHS CHIEF OF STAFF DURING TRUMP'S FIRST ADMINISTRATION, AND MSNBC LEGAL CORRESPONDENT LISA RUBIN. LISA, I JUST WANT TO KEEP GOING DOWN THIS ROAD BECAUSE BECAUSE IT SEEMS ABSTRACT TO PEOPLE.WHEN PEOPLE GET TARGETED BY THE GOVERNMENT OR THE PRESIDENT USED TO BE, IF A GUY LIKE MILES GOT INTO THAT KIND OF TROUBLE, THERE WOULD BE A LINEUP OF HIGH PROFILE LAW FIRMS THAT WOULD SAY, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE CARE OF THIS BECAUSE BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT TO ...

RT Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs)The European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) claims to target only harmful content in Europe, but our analysis of the House Judiciary Committee's recent report reveals that the DSA pressures US tech companies, including X, to enforce censorship on a global scale—including American political speech. This conflicts with core US principles, as the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, which includes freedom of expressing ideas that may be controversial to s ...

@joerogan 10. The result was a government license to totally and utterly censor any public questions on social media about mail-in ballots or electronic voting machines, 5 months before 2020 election day. DHS set up an censorship consortium called EIP to do this https://t.co/6npbAxp63O https://t.co/D1S758BoFRFoundation For Freedom Online (@FFO_Freedom):5. But CISA had a problem. It's called the First Amendment. The US government is not allowed to sandblast millions of voters off the civilian Internet becaus ...

On January 5th, 2007, a call with Fred Hyatt changed my life. I was dying a slow death at a corporate public relations firm during my second departure from journalism. Fred was the editorial page editor of the Washington Post and he was on the hunt for an editorial writer.We'd been in touch a few years before, but nothing came of it. This time was different. Hyatt hired me.My first day was February 15, 2007. In my memoir, Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home, I described my early days a ...

Millions have seen the videos. More than 56,000 migrants arrested and detained since February. >> Yeah, that's 48.>> I'm a doctor. >> I'm a doctor. >> Nearly half of them without criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.>> Hi. Are you a federal agent. >> Here in the town of Waltham, just outside of Boston, groups like these say they're fighting back.>> People often use the word resistance. Is this what the resistance looks like. >> Hell yeah.>> Founded in February, Ferasa's volunteers go on near dai ...

Well, right now the country is nearing a potential inflection point as ICE raids to deport undocumented migrants and protest efforts to disrupt them both escalate nationwide. Earlier this week, the federal government rolled out a new recruiting effort. They're offering $50,000 signing bonuses, student loan forgiveness, and enhanced retirement benefits as they try to entice 10,000 new agents to join ISIS ranks.Their mission, according to the DHS press release, is to target the worst of the worst. But recent ...

Merger Approval & Dissent - FCC approved the 8 billion dollar merger between Paramount and Sky Dance Media [1] - FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez dissented, calling the approval "capitulation over courage" [2] - Gomez expresses alarm over the administration's campaign of censorship and control [3] First Amendment Concerns - Gomez argues the deal violates the First Amendment by interfering with freedom of the press [4][12] - The administration allegedly seeks to control news media content through regulatory authority [3] - Imposing content restrictions is seen as a violation of the First Amendment [12] Editorial Control & Transparency - Sky Dance agreed to review CBS's content and appoint an ombudsman to handle bias claims [8] - Concerns raised about backroom deals and lack of transparency in the process [5] - The public will ultimately pay the price for this administration's campaign of censorship and control [6] Precedent & Unprecedented Nature - FCC chairman claims precedent exists for the measures taken in the deal [9] - Gomez argues the content-based conditions are unprecedented [12] - Prior ombudsman actions ensured separation between corporate owners and the news division, unlike the current situation [13] Potential Consequences - Concern that this will lead to further capitulation by corporate parents of news media organizations [14] - Companies may be seeding to the administration to get their transactions completed [14]