A state-funded 'anti-hate' organisation run by an Islamic scholar has become Germany's first official internet censor, empowered under the Digital Services Act to all but compel websites to delete the 'fake news' it flags.
Australians in the state of Victoria could go to prison for up to five years for "hate speech" under new anti-vilification laws proposed by the state Government.
Free speech advocates worldwide can take heart: a regressive bill threatening free speech is now dead in the water, says David Thunder. But the fight for free speech in Ireland is just beginning.
Modern elites have become fixated on banning 'hate', seeing it as the root of society's ills. But what would we humans be without our hatred, asks Paul Sutton. Where would be our art, our literature, our passion?
Police are recording more non-crime hate incidents than last year despite a crackdown on the practice, according to official data obtained by the Free Speech Union.
A biomedical scientist who called her Portuguese neighbour a "Spanish whore" during a row over a fire alarm was cautioned by police for a hate crime and struck off. No wonder the cops have no time to solve burglaries.
A month after the arrival of Scotland's Hate Crime Act and it appears reports of the demise of the Scottish Enlightenment may have been premature, no thanks to the SNP but due to the doughty spirit of the Scots.
Alas, once again a government has introduced a law to curb free speech and outlaw 'hate'. But if speech is so unpopular that some deem it hateful, that speech is the speech most worth protecting, says Lawrence Krauss.
Justin Trudeau to Humza Yousaf: "You think you can position yourself as the West’s most authoritarian 'liberal' political leader? Hold my Molson."
Could Justin Trudeau be prosecuted for encouraging genocide under the terms of his own 'anti-genocide' Online Harms Act, asks Steven Tucker. It may seem unlikely, but the Act is so poorly drafted that you never know.
