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Where democracy goes to die

Source: Simplicius's Garden of Knowledge — A good roundup of all the various initiatives to stifle speech and rig elections. As the flailing behemoth of…

freespeechnewsSeptember 27, 2025

Censorship Europe News Abroad

AfD mayoral candidate Joachim Paul denied his right to run for office because he likes Tolkien and criticises migrants

Source: Eugyppius — This particular seedy exercise in ensuring that voters may only choose among various pre-approved candidates is much bigger than this local mayoral…

freespeechnewsAugust 7, 2025

Media Platforms Press Freedom

Trump and the Dictatorship of the Upper Middle-Class Urbanites

Source: Eugyppius — In the eyes of these journalists and their sources, Trump is anti-democratic and authoritarian for his pursuit of government bureaucrats, federal workers,…

freespeechnewsAugust 4, 2025

Foreign Policy

Western Foreign Policy is Anti-Democratic

Source: Un-Diplomatic — When we think about the total unaccountability of foreign policy to the interests of the public, nothing screams as loud as America’s…

AnnieJuly 29, 2025

Europe News Abroad

How Western democracy died

Source: UnHerd — Western democracy is under threat — not from “foreign adversaries”, or “far-Right populists”, but from its own elites. The contemporary crisis of…

freespeechnewsJuly 21, 2025

Censorship News Abroad

Britain ‘needs anti-subversion laws to save democracy from itself’

Source: The Sunday Times — The drumbeat continues in the UK that exercising one's right to free speech is somehow destabilizing to democracy, which is…

freespeechnewsMay 19, 2025

Press Freedom

A free people need a free press

Source: A.G. Sulzberger — The pompous fools running mainstream media have zero awareness of what's happening to true journalists, nor do they have any self-awareness.…

freespeechnewsMay 16, 2025

Censorship Press Freedom

No, State Media and Democracy Don’t Go “Hand in Hand.” Just the Opposite.

Source: Matt Taibbi for Racket News — In the age of digital censorship, state media is just as likely to be a threat to democracy…

freespeechnewsMay 4, 2025

Europe News Abroad

Has French democracy been ‘executed?’

Source: The Spectator — The banning of Marine Le Pen will benefit the French right, but it is another worrying example of an out-of-control elite…

freespeechnewsMarch 31, 2025