Paris. Aug. 26. Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, remains in a Paris jail cell as of Monday morning. Durov was arrested Friday “as part of an investigation into Telegram’s lack of content moderation and the platform’s role in allegedly enabling criminal activity, according to the Washington Post.” Durov previously fled Russia in 2014 after refusing to hand …
Category: Free speech under siege
Aug 25
French government arrests CEO of Telegram for refusing to censor.
Paris. August 24, 2024. Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday. Reuters reports that “BFM and TF1 said that Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested …
Mar 31
FBI is amping up home visits to chat with people about their Facebook posts
Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit is out with a terrifying news story about the FBI visiting people at their homes to talk about Facebook posts. A muslim woman named Rolla Abdeljawad was visited at her home in Stillwater, Oklahoma by two men in plain clothes claiming to be FBI agents. The “agents” questioned Abdeljawad …
Feb 25
While the US government secretly directed censorship at other social media platforms, it PROSECUTED and destroyed another platform, Gettr, for offering freer speech.
While the US government was secretly directing Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Google to censor anti-government ideas, a handful of smaller social media platforms popped up, advertising themselves as free-speech platforms. One example was Gettr. But Gettr is now languishing financially, and deep in debt. Hundreds of Gettr workers have now been laid off. Gettr’s …
Feb 16
Canadian Lawmaker introduces Bill to imprison people who “suggest that a fossil fuel “would lead to positive outcomes in relation to the environment, the health of Canadians, reconciliation with indigenous peoples or the Canadian or global economy.”
Ottowa. Feb. 16, 2024. Charlie Angus, a far left Canadian member of Parliament, has introduced C-372: An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising. The totalitarian bill specifies penalties for producers (“on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding $1,000,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both”) and individuals of …
Jan 28
Thailand Courts sentence man to 50 years in prison for criticizing the king.
Every government ultimately comes for all freedom, all property, all money, and to kill all who resist. Governments everywhere are constantly waging war on criticism and free exchange of ideas. Now a court in Thailand has handed down an unprecedented 50-year prison sentence to a man convicted of violating the country’s strict laws that criminalize …
Jan 13
Journalists are in an organized effort to push censorship on Substack
New York City. Columbia School of Journalism. Jan. 13, 2024. “The Atlantic” Magazine, a far-left, pro-government extremist publication, recently published an article entitled Substack Has a Nazi Problem. The article made a number of factual claims, including a claim that large numbers of “nazis” are now on the Substack platform writing profitable columns with mountains …
Dec 24
New Survey: Germans’ feelings of freedom to express their political opinions is lowest in 70 years
Yellow: Germans who feel they can speak freely. Red: Germans who feel they CANNOT speak freely. If anything, the grip of “political correctness” is stronger in Europe than in the U.S. The prescribed (and sometimes mandated) ideology of socialism, equality of outcomes, anti-mobility, anti-automobility, trust in government, and the climate doomsday religion is repeated …
Dec 02
White House and Capitol Hill are blocking access to The Gateway Pundit website
The Gateway Pundit online newspaper is the lead plaintiff in the Missouri-Louisiana v. Biden lawsuit on government censorship of speech in America today. The lawsuit is expected to reach the US Supreme Court early next year. (Both the district court and the 5th Circuit have held that the case exhibits the greatest episode of mass censorship by …
Nov 15
Republican Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley Calls for Total Government Control over Social Media Posting.
GOP presidential hopeful and deepstate darling Nikki Haley recently pronounced her intention to force every social media user to identify himself by government approved name, to force every media company to hand over their “algorithms,” and to have the government constantly monitoring social media. Haley is widely assumed to be the favorite of globalist elites …