Censorship
U.K. regulators pressure U.S. tech companies to censor speech
The Online Safety Act has crippled free speech in the United Kingdom. Most Americans may assume they're safe from censorship on this side of the Atlantic, but the U.K. is now attempting to enforce the Online Safety Act…
No, TikTok probably didn’t censor ICE critics this week
TikTok creators' worst nightmares seemed to be coming true this week. Just a few days after the company announced a deal to spin off U.S. operations from TikTok's Chinese-affiliated parent company, ByteDance, some…
Trump bars 5 Europeans from the U.S. over their censorship efforts
Two days before Christmas, the European Commission—essentially the executive branch of the European Union (E.U.)—protested U.S. travel restrictions against five residents of the bloc. According to U.S. Secretary of State…
Washington professor has a right to mock ‘land acknowledgements,’ court rules
A decade ago, the University of Washington (U.W.) adopted an official statement that "acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the…
Deplatforming didn’t kill extremism. It made it stronger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vac5nB_1--A When Donald Trump was kicked off social media in 2021, liberal pundit Matthew Yglesias tweeted, "It's kinda weird that deplatforming Trump just like completely worked with…
Tennessee man spent 37 days in jail for sharing an anti-Trump meme
In the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's murder on September 10, his admirers were offended by online messages that denigrated him, condemned his views, and in some cases even celebrated his death. The…
New Bill in Canada Ends ‘Hate Speech’ Laws’ Religious Exemption
Left-wing Canadian lawmakers are working to introduce a new bill that would end existing protections for people of faith against prosecution under national “hate speech” laws. Canada’s Criminal Code, which bans what the…
How the Nepalese revolution was organized on Discord
They marched to defend free speech online and ended up reshaping a nation. In September 2025, young protesters opposing Nepal's social media ban triggered a political upheaval that brought Sushila Karki to power as the…
How foreign governments police U.S. speech
Today's guest is Sarah McLaughlin, a senior scholar at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and author of Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and…
Could US Ban EU Heads From World Cup Over Musk Fine?
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Heritage Foundation expert is calling for the United States to respond to the European Union’s fine on the social media platform X and on owner Elon Musk, with sanctions on EU officials and…
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