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The Censorship Industrial Complex’s Power Grip in Germany

Source: Greg Collard for Racket News — Germany is the most important country doing content controls in the entirety of the EU. The CEO of…

freespeechnewsDecember 3, 2025

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EU Moves Toward Ending Private Communication

Source: Reclaim the Net — Behind the glass walls of Brussels, democracy risks becoming a paperwork illusion signed in silence. MEP Martin Sonneborn put it…

freespeechnewsNovember 25, 2025

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Ministry of Justice set to take away the right to a trial by jury

Source: Canary — Those accused of a crime could soon have their right to a fair trial by jury taken away in a new move…

freespeechnewsNovember 20, 2025

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Britain’s Speech Gulag Exposed: 10,000 Arrested Last Year For Social Media Posts

Source: Modernity — A damning study complete with an interactive map has revealed that UK police arrested nearly 10,000 people in 2024 for “grossly offensive”…

freespeechnewsNovember 17, 2025

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UK Urges Ofcom to Fast-Track Censorship Law Enforcement

Source: Reclaim the Net — Her urgency exposes a government more eager to control the internet than to understand the cost of regulating it. Kendall’s…

freespeechnewsNovember 14, 2025

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German police raid a libertarian’s home for the crime of calling civil servants “parasites,” advise him to “Think carefully about what you post in future”

Source: Eugyppius on Substack — A new insane German speech crime investigation just dropped. We have a low-visibility post containing a suggestive vocabulary item (“Parasit”)…

freespeechnewsNovember 14, 2025

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France Lifts Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s Travel Ban

Source: Cointelegraph — Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is now free to travel after French authorities fully lifted a ban, although the investigation into the platform…

freespeechnewsNovember 13, 2025

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EU’s “Chat Control 2.0” Sparks Fierce Privacy Backlash

Source: Reclaim the Net — After public outrage buried it once, the EU’s mass surveillance plan is back; rebranded, repackaged, and more invasive than before.…

freespeechnewsNovember 12, 2025

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Why we should welcome Tommy Robinson’s acquittal

Source: The Critic — The Terrorism Act 2000 has been used to justify excessive police power in the UK. The officers involved had vague recollections…

freespeechnewsNovember 11, 2025