“Countering hate speech is not about criminalising offensive opinions but about openly challenging the narratives that dehumanise entire communities,” writes the former GCHQ director in a guest essay https://t.co/TWFZJvREar ...

Trump administration is clearly on defense now over these proven attacks on free speech and confessions, admissions of improper motive by senior officials. The New York Times reporting there are now these measures to silence opponents that the White House wants to pursue. That would be unamerican full stop, but probably unconstitutional.We will see exactly what they try to do, but that Trump is pursuing them by invoking Kirk's killing. Tonight, there are clues about a new order Trump may push that would try ...

Trump. The feds are waging an unusual, aggressive, and quite possibly illegal effort, separate from what happened that day, to now continuously try to crack down on free speech and on their perceived domestic political opponents. Yet, they're citing the shooting repeatedly as the rationale.And that brings us to a major legal mistake by the Justice Department's top official, Pam Bondi, coming amid major questions also facing the FBI's top official over this very case. And so before we go any further into the ...

Do you see more law enforcement going after these groups who are using hate speech and putting cuffs on people so we show them that some action is better than no action. >> We will absolutely target you, go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything. And that's across the aisle.Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi is going so far as to say that the Justice Department would go after anyone who engages in what she deemed hate speech. The attorney general later clarifying on social media that ...

South Africa's firebrand MP found guilty of hate speech https://t.co/lktI3wdNRa ...

RT Allum Bokhari (@AllumBokhari)The Great Firewall of the UK went online today (also known as the "Online Safety Act.")A draconian piece of censorship law on par with Brazil and the EU, it allows UK regulators to block access to any site or app over "hate speech."4chan is already down in the UK. https://t.co/kr1NMI4lAQ ...