A group of pro-freedom lawyers have published a speech bill to repeal decades of laws crushing freedom and curbing expression, creating something of a First Amendment for Britons.
Freedom of speech
Finland has Convicted an MP of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ for Publishing Religious Pamphlet
Is homosexuality a sin?
That’s like asking whether adultery is a sin, or taking God’s name in vain. The Bible is quite clear on the matter, and for over two millennia, it was uncontroversial to believe that the sexual binary and method of human procreation made clear that God made men and women to be complementary.
Get ready Canada …
Anti-hate bill that provoked bitter debate over religious freedom passes the Commons
Jewish groups welcomed the government’s anti-hate bill passing through the Commons Wednesday evening after months of filibustering and fractious debate about whether it threatens religious freedom.
Bill C-9, as it’s known, would make it a crime, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to obstruct someone from accessing a place of worship or other sites where Jews, Muslims and other identifiable groups gather.
LILLEY: Woman who threatened Mark Carney is no free speech hero
A Toronto woman who made online threats against Prime Minister Mark Carney is being held up as a martyr for freedom of speech when, in reality, she’s a public nuisance and possible danger.
Nicole Pearen Miske, posted about Carney on Feb. 10 and made a threat that police found out about and had to investigate.
🚨BREAKING – THE MEME POLICE ARE IN CANADA
New video shows Toronto police door-knocking to talk to (a presumably leftist) lady about her online post
She fights back HARD: “I will say whatever the FK I want about our Zionist Prime Minister”
WOW! pic.twitter.com/L9N0eXFwqA
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) March 17, 2026
It seems a bit overblown to me. A civilian on the receiving end of that nonsense would likely be told the police could do nothing.
Raided Over a Tweet: Munich Prosecutors Target AfD Lawmaker for Digital “Incitement”
The boundary between digital satire and criminal conduct has become the focal point of a major legal dispute in Munich, as authorities conducted a morning raid on the home and parliamentary office of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) lawmaker René Dierkes.
Evidently it is about a tweet made two years ago by an individual no longer employed by the politician.
I learned a cool new word. Hexenjagd = witch hunt.
Closing Debate on Ottawa’s Anti-Hate Bill Risks Undermining Canada’s Religious Freedom
I am writing as a concerned citizen to express my profound concern over the federal government’s March 9, 2026, move to close debate on Bill C-9, Ottawa’s anti-hate bill.
As recently reported by the National Post, Khaled Al-Qazzaz, executive director of the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council, said he and other Muslim groups representing hundreds of Muslim organizations opposed the bill and felt “ambushed” by the government’s decision to limit further debate.
Freedom For All: Trump to Give Britons Tools to Bypass Censorship
The redcoats of internet censorship are coming but an American midnight rider is coming to save Europeans from their own governments, the Trump White House teases, stating: “Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.”
A growing number of websites have chosen to simply block users rather than comply with arduous censorship demands in response to Europe’s Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act, with many more hidden behind government-mandated age-verification making linking a real-life identity to internet use a prerequisite for access.
Carney Liberals push Bill C-16 that could criminalize normal family conversations
Mark Carney’s Liberal government wants to control everything. With Bill C-9, they seek to remove the religious exemption for prosecutable hate speech; MP Marc Miller specifically cited Bible passages as examples. With Bill C-16, they could open the door to criminalizing conversations between family members after the fact.
The new Bill C-16 (not the 2017 bill of the same name, which prohibited “hate speech” on the grounds of “gender identity and expression” and made Dr. Jordan Peterson famous) has been titled the “Protecting Victims Act,” and was introduced by the Liberals in the 45th Parliament. It has not attracted much attention, but as MP Leslyn Lewis recently highlighted, it may have far-reaching effects.
EU Launches ‘Hate Speech’ Crackdown in New ‘Anti-Racism’ Drive
The European Union wants to prosecute more people for online “hate speech.”
This week, the European Commission issued a direct challenge to the Trump administration by releasing a sprawling “Anti-Racism Strategy” for 2026–2030. The document heavily prioritizes expanding the policing of “hate speech,” especially online, framing the effort as “Stepping Up Protection Against Racial Hatred.”
Last year, Vice President JD Vance delivered an address to the Munich Security Conference in which he warned, “In Britain, and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”
‘Charlie Hebdo’ cartoon on Swiss fire tragedy sparks outrage
On average, the cartoons published on the Instagram account of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo get a few hundred reactions, but a recent drawing by cartoonist Eric Salch has prompted more than 15,000 social media users to express their dismay.
Vlaardingerbroek Ban Comes Under Heavy Scrutiny But Unlikely To Be Revoked
Eva Vlaardingerbroek says her ban from entering Britain, issued just days after she criticised the state of free speech under Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, means “my point that the UK is no longer a free country has been indisputably proven.”
The West is Orwellian, says the Pope
WHEN the Pope addressed the Vatican ambassadors accredited to the Holy See his speech ought to have made the headlines of every free newspaper across the Western world.
Perhaps we should be grateful that Leo XIV used the word ‘Orwellian’ because that caught the attention of a few commentators. Otherwise, one of the most important papal contributions to public cultural and political dialogue I have ever read disappeared into the fog of international news.
CARPAY: Ottawa’s assault on our internet freedoms must stop now
As we enter 2026, Canada’s federal government is quietly but surely transforming Canada’s centuries-old traditions of free speech and privacy rights into something revocable at the pleasure of the CRTC, politicians and bureaucrats.
US Official Cites NGO’s ‘Hate Speech’ Label for Residential School ‘Denialism’ When Announcing Free-Speech Sanctions
The U.S. Department of State has announced sanctions against a number of individuals including the British head of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) Clare Melford, whose organization issued a report this summer listing “digital denialism” of Canadian residential schools as one example of “hate speech” that harms democracy.
Undersecretary of State Sarah Rogers linked to a Sept. 25 GDI report on hate speech in Canada in an X post to announce Melford’s travel ban, saying that GDI has interfered with speech on American platforms, including by labeling opinions that “question” the nature of Canadian residential schools as hate speech.
Trump admin bars five ‘egregious’ Europeans from entering US due to ‘extraterritorial censorship’
The State Department is barring five “egregious” European figures in the “global censorship-industrial complex” from entering the US, it revealed Tuesday.
State Department officials contended that those five Europeans flouted a visa policy rolled out in May restricting those who work to censor protected speech in the US from entering the country.
“For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Tuesday.
You commies deserve worse. https://t.co/LbPDtXzKsr
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) December 24, 2025
UK Police To Scrap ‘Non-Crime Hate Incidents’ After Free Speech Backlash
Police in England will stop recording so-called ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHI)—statements believed to be “motivated by prejudice” but that don’t meet the criteria for criminal offences—because they are “not fit for purpose” and pose a threat to free speech.