Lessons from the UK: How Censorship Ends Open Discourse

Scottish Police Arrest Serial Speaker: Elderly Woman Charged After Holding Sign Offering to Discuss Abortion

Scottish Police Arrest Serial Speaker: Elderly Woman Charged After Holding Sign Offering to Discuss AbortionJonathan Turley – Rose Docherty is what they call a criminal recidivist in the United Kingdom. The 75-year-old woman has been arrested for a second time for the same fiendish act: offering to speak to women considering an abortion. She was arrested outside the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for carrying a placard which stated “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” Fortunately, she and her sign were quickly seized by the local police to protect the public.

Free speech literally does not have a prayer in the United Kingdom. We previously discussed the case of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, who was arrested for standing near an abortion clinic while silently praying. Police asked what she was doing standing at the location and when she said that she was praying in her head, they arrested her. Continue reading

Google and YouTube Censorship Scandal: What It Means for Free Expression

Google Admits Political Censorship On YouTube, Vows To Restore Free Speech

Google Admits Political Censorship On YouTube, Vows To Restore Free SpeechNiamh Harris – Google has promised to restore YouTube accounts that had been banned for political speech, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday.

The tech giant also admitted that the Biden administration pressured it to censor Americans that did not violate the company’s terms of service.

A lawyer representing Google wrote to Jordan saying: “Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect.” Continue reading

The Cost of Silence: What Charlie Kirk’s Murder Means for Free Speech

Charlie Kirk and the Age of Rage

Charlie Kirk and the Age of RageJonathan Turley – “Prove me wrong.”

For years, that tagline of Charlie Kirk and his group, Turning Point USA, enraged many on the left. In “an age of rage,” nothing is more triggering for the perpetually angry than an invitation to debate issues.

Indeed, someone has now killed him for it.

What is most chilling about the assassination is that it was not in the slightest degree surprising. This follows two attempted assassinations of President Trump and the killing of a pair of Minnesota politicians. Continue reading

Europe’s Hidden Fire: Why Rising Nationalist Sentiments Matter

Europe Is a Powder Keg

Europe's Hidden Fire: Why Rising Nationalist Sentiments MatterJ.B. Shurk – Americans who don’t spend time in Europe might not fully appreciate what a powder keg the Old World has become. However bad social relations in the United States now are, they are at least an order of magnitude worse on the other side of the Atlantic. European self-hatred is dissolving traditional cultural bonds. Mass immigration is compounding age-old rivalries. Europe is one spark away from exploding.

Europe is a perennial battlefield. Many of our ancestors, after all, left the old country to escape religious, economic, and cultural conflicts that had endured for centuries. Those historic grievances — always simmering in times of peace before boiling over into outright violence — are passed from one generation to the next.

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How ‘Tolerance’ Shattered My Views: An Honest Reflection

How 'Tolerance' Shattered My Views: An Honest ReflectionMatt Van Swol – Oh man… not sure how to write this.

Here it goes.

January of this year, I did something I hadn’t done… ever.

I gave Trump credit for doing something good.

I gave him credit for keeping his promises to us in Western North Carolina.

I could never have imagined the volume of hate and anger I received from doing something that was obviously the right thing to do. Continue reading