Censorship in America

Selwyn Duke The sun set on the British Empire long ago. Now China is setting on it, too. For while poet Rudyard Kipling famously observed that “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” Beijing and Britain are meeting — on U.K. soil — with the Chinese as conquerors. So laments The Telegraph’s Sherelle Jacobs,...

matucha/iStock/Getty Images Plus California Gov. Gavin Newsom is going to sign a bill into law that will prevent schools from banning perverse LGBTQ books. But that’s not all it does. Assembly Bill 1078 will also require schools to employ staff who encourage kids in homosexual behavior and who enable them to keep their incited behaviors a secret from parents. In other words, it not only...

LevoisJ/flickr As late singer Charlie Daniels might’ve said, “The Devil went down to Georgia.” What, though, is he looking to steal? Health? Confidence? Security? Common sense? Or, is it an election? One commentator wonders about the latter with news that a Georgia institution, Morris Brown College in Atlanta, has just re-instituted a restrictive Covid-19 mask mandate. And here’s the kicker:...

12963734/iStock/Getty Images Plus The judge who tossed the complaint filed by a public-interest law firm over whether middle-school student Liam Morrison could wear a controversial t-shirt at school used reasoning that could only have come from her far-left legal training. Indira Talwani, a U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, graduated from Radcliffe College...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has raised eyebrows as the first right-sympathetic populist to run as a Democrat since William Jennings Bryan. Launching with twenty paid staff and functioning now with seventy, Kennedy’s campaign has latched on to several issues important to mainstream Republicans—Covid tyranny, censorship, government surveillance—as well as to the dissident right: public health threats posed by chemicals in...

ChristianChan/iStock/Getty Images Plus A United Kingdom army veteran has been charged with a crime for silently praying outside an abortion clinic, despite the fact that police had told him he was “entitled” to do so. The Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP) Council is one of five U.K. councils that have passed ordinances establishing “buffer zones” around abortion clinics. According to...

Lobro78/iStock/Getty Images Plus A coalition of 21 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief on Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit urging a judge to reverse a lower court decision that prohibited numerous federal agencies and high-ranking officials of the Biden administration from certain communications with social-media firms that clearly suppress free speech.    New York...

AP Images Jim Jordan House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) once again has raised the very serious question of whether the Biden administration worked with Facebook to identify and censor Americans who used the social-media platform to express their opposition to Joe Biden. “Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and...

tylim/iStock/Getty Images Plus A majority of Americans recently surveyed by Pew Research favor restricting “false information” and “violent content” online, an alarming development with respect to one of the nation’s primordial principles — the right to speak one’s mind freely. But worse still, by a large margin, Democrats, not Republicans, favor restrictions on free speech.  Survey respondents also would rather...

Devonyu/iStock/Getty Images Plus It has become so obvious that even the less astute among us have noted leftists’ reflexive habit of projection: They tend to accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of. They’d say Covid realists were “science deniers” even as they insisted a boy could will himself into being a girl. They’d say the Right is violent...

ajr_images/iStock/Getty Images Plus A mind-boggling majority of college students believes that professors who say something “offensive” in class should be reported to the university’s administration. The survey, conducted by North Dakota State University’s (NDSU) Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, in collaboration with College Pulse, sampled the opinions of 2,250 undergraduate students currently enrolled in four-year...

The left wants all future elections to look just like they did in 2020, and we have the blueprints to prove it. Covid-19 was the excuse Democrats used to radically transform our nation’s election systems in ways that make them less secure, less fair, and more vulnerable to mischief. Virtually all of the “temporary” changes introduced—ever-earlier voting, mass mail-in balloting,...

Diy13/iStock/Getty Images Plus When global-warming alarmists, or anyone else, say “The debate is over,” it usually means they’re out of arguments. But now some climate-change activists want to make sure they’ll be out of opponents, too — by throwing them in prison. The latest individual to suggest such is European politician Angelo Bonelli, an MP who is co-leader of Italy’s...

“This is the new technology of speech in America: You can dial people all the way up to ‘everybody sees it,’ and you can dial someone else down to ‘it’s almost impossible to see them.’ And that is extremely dangerous, and it’s especially dangerous if it’s done in secret and nobody knows exactly how it operates.” In this episode, Jan...

“This is the new technology of speech in America: You can dial people all the way up to ‘everybody sees it,’ and you can dial someone else down to ‘it’s almost impossible to see them.’ And that is extremely dangerous, and it’s especially dangerous if it’s done in secret and nobody knows exactly how it operates.” In this episode, Jan...

Twitter is dealing with a “heavy debt load” after losing about 50 percent of its advertising revenue, and that has resulted in the app having a “negative cash flow,” Elon Musk, the company’s owner, wrote on July 14. “We’re still negative cash flow, due to ~50 percent drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load. Need to reach positive cash flow before...

Mega retailer Target has not recovered from consumer boycotts triggered after the company promoted Pride merchandise, with share prices and market cap declining significantly along with financial and popularity metrics. American consumers started boycotting Target in May, after the retail chain rolled out its transgender collection, which included some items that targeted children, including books, home décor products, and transgender...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Although he has faced investigations and persecution since becoming a politician in 2015, former President Donald Trump declared that, yes, he would do it all over again “without even a question.” That was Mr. Trump’s response when a successful businessman wondered whether he regretted leaving behind a cushy life as a billionaire real-estate mogul. Mr. Trump recounted that conversation...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a partner of every foreign company doing business in China, a congressional committee warned on Thursday, as lawmakers and experts went to great lengths to explain how corporate environments in China are vastly different. “There is no such thing as a ‘private company’ in China,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chairman of the Select Committee...

All of the top Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump excepted, braved questions from journalist Tucker Carlson at a summit in Des Moines, Iowa. While some met with a lukewarm or, at times, unfriendly reception from the very Christian audience, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was most definitely not among them. He even got a standing ovation. “It would seem that we’re...