https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5161480
One in three journalists says they've faced violence — or the threat of it
Threats to investigate TV networks — and take them off the air
A vow to bring an independent agency under the president's control
#trump #election #potus #threats #journalism #first-amendment #freedom-of-the-press #free-speech
t’s happening again.
The anticipation here at #LondonReal Studios is palpable as #DavidIcke returns for a tenth #interview in the landmark Rose/Icke series, set to broadcast live on August 23 at 6 pm UK time/1 pm EST. This series, which started in 2020 amidst #global #turmoil, has captivated audiences #worldwide with its controversial discussions, unfiltered content and unique perspectives.
And Rose/Icke X: “The Reveal” promises to be the most important conversation yet, hosted exclusively on our Digital Freedom Platform.
A #flashback to #2020
Back in 2020, the world was gripped by the #COVID-19 #plandemic.
#Governments across the #globe implemented #lockdowns, enforced stringent #censorship, and imposed policies that many viewed as infringing on personal freedoms.
Amidst this chaos, London Real took a bold step by broadcasting an interview that would become one of our most watched and talked-about conversations: Rose/Icke I.
This inaugural interview featured #BrianRose, the founder of London Real, and David Icke, the instantly recognisable author, researcher and broadcaster known for his controversial theories and outspoken criticism of mainstream narratives. The conversation delved into topics that were both provocative and polarising, challenging the official accounts of the pandemic and the measures taken to combat it.
The evolution of Rose/Icke
Since that groundbreaking interview, the Rose/Icke series has grown into a significant platform for free speech and alternative viewpoints. With nine episodes already in the archive, each instalment has pushed boundaries and sparked debate, resonating with a global audience seeking perspectives often ignored or dismissed by traditional media… even resulting in London Real being deplatformed by YouTube for simply broadcasting a conversation.
#TheReveal: what to expect
“The Reveal,” the tenth episode in the series, is generating immense excitement. Scheduled to air exclusively on London Real’s Digital Freedom Platform, this conversation promises to be unfiltered and uncensored, staying true to our commitment to #free-speech.
While specific details about the topics to be discussed remain under wraps, it is expected that Icke will address current global events, ongoing political and social issues, and revisit some of his earlier predictions and theories in light of recent developments. Given the title “The Reveal,” audiences across the planet are anticipating revelations that could provoke thought and stir controversy.
The significance of the Digital Freedom Platform
The choice to broadcast this interview on the Digital Freedom Platform is significant. Launched by London Real in response to increasing censorship on mainstream social media and video platforms, the Digital Freedom Platform aims to provide a space where voices like Icke’s can be heard without fear of being silenced. It underscores a broader movement advocating for the preservation of free speech in an era where many feel it is under threat.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tennessee-woman-obscenity-biden-trump-yard-sign-lawsuit-2024-7
Em' is not a word or an abbreviation for a word. The apostrophes in abbreviations go where the letters are elided. For example, can't is an abbreviation for can not. The apostrophe goes where the n and o are elided. So what word or phrase begins with em and ends with one or more letters?
Pitiful. This woman bought this sign. Illiterate children have been selling these since at least 2020, and illiterates have been buying them.
#fail #stupid #illiterate #ignorant #embarrassing #sign #free-speech #gibberish
So long as there is no effective government oversight of these corporations, current and former employees are among the few people who can hold them accountable to the public. Yet broad confidentiality agreements block us from voicing our concerns, except to the very companies that may be failing to address these issues. Ordinary whistleblower protections are insufficient because they focus on illegal activity, whereas many of the risks we are concerned about are not yet regulated.
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We therefore call upon advanced AI companies to commit to these principles:
#ai #artificial-intelligence #as #artificial-stupidity #freedom #liberty #free-speech #software-overlords #computer-says-no #whistle-blowers #whistleblowers
#aclu #american-civil-liberties-union #free-speech #freedom #liberty #academic-freedom #university #universities #protests #free-expression #civil-liberties #university-presidents
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/26/us-universities-should-respect-right-protest
There have been troubling reports of antisemitic incidents in and around Columbia University’s campus. Allegations of antisemitic acts and speech by individuals, as well as acts of Islamophobia and other forms of discrimination, should be investigated and addressed on the merits in a case-by-case basis, through fair and transparent processes.\
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As protests spread to campuses across the country, university administrations should be careful not to mislabel criticism of Israeli government policies or advocacy for Palestinian rights as inherently antisemitic or to misuse university authority to quash peaceful protest. Instead, universities should safeguard people’s rights to assembly and free expression.
#free-speech #freedom #liberty #human-rights #human-rights-watch #hrw #palestine #gaza #israel #protest #protests #columbia-university #islamophobia #antisemitism
If the bad guys rights can be violated, so can ours.
For more than 100 years the American Civil Liberties Union has defended the right to free speech – no matter the speaker, and regardless of whether we agree with their views.
#nra #free-speech #american-civil-liberties-union #aclu #scotus #supreme-court #supreme-court-of-the-united-states
One of the biggest girls’ football leagues in the country faces being shut down by the Football Association for refusing to allow a boy to play in its matches.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a row has broken out between the FA and officials running a female league in Yorkshire after parents complained their son had not been allowed to join.
It is understood the FA has threatened the West Riding Girls Football League with sanctions and a possible suspension if it does not agree to let boys on the pitch, a scenario officials have branded ‘a massive threat to the girls’ game’.
Last week an emergency meeting was held by organisers of the league – which has at least 6,000 under-18 girls playing across more than 300 teams – where managers voiced their concerns that allowing boys to play would ‘open the floodgates’.
The FA’s gender policy states that any under-16 teams must allow both boys and girls to play, despite admitting that ‘physical strength, stamina or physique’ can put one sex at the disadvantage of the other. Fiona McAnena, at sex-based rights group Sex Matters, said: ‘A boy on the pitch changes everything. The law is clear that female-only sport is allowed. It’s sex discrimination for the FA to tell girls they must accept a male player.’
Top girls’ football league faces being shut down, THE DAILY MAIL, 3 March 2024
This is what inevitably happens when reality intrudes upon the #dogmatic #Enlightenment #principles to which the #secular champions of #social-justice have been appealing for more than 200 years. Whenever the #ideological #principle violates their #identity #priority, the principle always crumbles into dust.
We’ve seen it with #free-speech, as that has been trumped by the need for protect the ability of one group to believe they were uniquely persecuted in the 20th Century and for another group to ignore crime statistics. We’ve seen it with “democracy”, as that has been trumped by the need of #ClownWorld #governments to ignore the will of the people. And now we see it with “equality”, as three generations of unrestrained #assaults on #male-only-activities are suddenly jettisoned as soon as #female-only-activities are threatened.
We are somehow supposed to believe that #equality means telling girls they must accept a male player is #sex #discrimination, while not telling boys they must accept a female player is also sex discrimination. Which is, of course, a certain sign that #satanic #inversion is somehow involved.
The #Enlightenment is the philosophical basis for Clown World. It is an #outdated and #sophistic #philosophy that will disappear in the aftermath of Clown World’s #demise.
#AmazingPolly - https://www.bitchute.com/video/aPK61i5SACTx/
#Who owns the platforms where we think we have #free-speech? I get into the Venture Capitalists who are buying up social media and reveal how they plan to translate that into creating an entirely new world system of control.
Goliath Has Big Plans for #SocialMedia and #World #Domination
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/09/22/saudi-crown-prince-confirms-death-sentence-tweets
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, has confirmed that retired teacher Muhammed al Ghamdi was indeed sentenced to death for his social media posts. In an interview with Fox News on September 20, MBS admitted about the death sentence: “Shamefully, it's true,” and blamed the sentence on “bad laws.”\
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“Do we have bad laws? Yes. Are we are changing that? Yes,” he said.\
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MBS is right in saying that he is working to change bad laws: under his rule, bad laws have only become worse.
#human-rights #human-rights-watch #hrw #mbs #saudi-arabia #twitter #tweets #death-sentence #free-speech #freedom #liberty
Ah, so that's what being a free-speech absolutist means.
The lawsuit ... claimed that ... at least eight organisations and companies, including multinational corporations that have advertised on X historically, had paused spending on the platform in June and July after reading CCDH reports. The lawsuit added that a further five separate companies, including large multinationals, had paused advertising spending plans around November last year – shortly after Musk’s purchase of the company – after reading CCDH research.
He's fine with people spreading rank lies on his platform even when those lies hurt others, but not when people publish factual information that might have an adverse impact on him.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eXB2TytvqvM
#2023 truth is not allowed by the evil ones who only lie
24th June 2023 - Today in Parliament Square, London. #Free-Speech, Free Press, #Free #Assange?
On Friday The Guardian Australia website carried a news report, with a follow-up piece on Monday, whose implications for #free-speech are profoundly disturbing.
They concern a Radio New Zealand, or RNZ, broadcasting employee — unnamed, but everyone in the small New Zealand broadcasting world will soon know who it is — who has been placed on leave while their professional conduct is investigated. Obviously, a career hangs in the balance.
The malign ghosts of Orwell’s 1984 stalk this story.
‘Russian Garbage’
This unnamed person in RNZ committed the cardinal sin of “inappropriate editing” of incoming Reuters news feeds on the war in Ukraine to insert “Russian garbage” in the contemptuous words of Paul Thompson, chief executive of RNZ. That is to say, they drew on Russian news sources to insert balancing pro-Russian material to the incoming Western news agency feeds.
by #VijayPrashad, #KatieHalper
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/13/frankfurt-undermines-human-rights-by-canceling-a-concert-by-roger-waters/
https://www.change.org/p/let-pink-floyd-s-roger-waters-perform-in-frankfurt-germany
The #cancellation of #Waters’s #concert is a #threat to #free-speech and #artistic #freedom.
#frankfurt #humanrights #rogerwaters #censorship #israel #apartheid #boycott-divestment-sanctions #bds #palestine
Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network - https://zeronet.dev / ZeroNet Site, Unlike Bitcoin, ZeroNet Doesn't need a blockchain to run, But uses cryptography used by BTC, to ensure data integrity and validation.
Why?
We believe in open, free, and uncensored network and communication.
No single point of failure: Site remains online so long as at least 1 peer is serving it.
No hosting costs: Sites are served by visitors.
Impossible to shut down: It's nowhere because it's everywhere.
Fast and works offline: You can access the site even if Internet is unavailable.
https://github.com/ZeroNetX/ZeroNet
#cryptography #bittorrent #bitcoin #peer-to-peer #decentralized #p2p #anticensorship #internet-freedom #zeronet #web3 #namecoin #free-speech #uncensored #unstoppable-domains
https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=QhcCDGW4SSo
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2022/december/19/twitter-files-make-it-clear-we-must-abolish-the-fbi/
The agency used its influence at #Twitter to #unconstitutionally crush #free-speech, retired congressman #RonPaul argues
The #FBI used proprietary backchannels at Twitter to infringe on Americans’ #FirstAmendment rights and should be “ #abolished,” former #US Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul stated on Monday.
While Twitter has previously skirted accusations of violating Americans’ right to free speech by arguing it is a private corporation, Paul pointed out that recently released internal communications between employees of the social media giant and #government officials in the FBI and other agencies confirm the platform was acting as a surrogate of the state.
“Now we have proof that the FBI (along with US intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security) have been acting through ‘private’ social media companies to manipulate what Americans are allowed to say when they #communicate with each other,” the former Texas congressman wrote in his weekly column for his website, the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.
“We do not need the FBI and #CIA and other federal agencies viewing us as the enemy and attacking our #Constitution. #End-the-Fed…and end the #Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation!” Paul concluded, referencing his long-standing call to liquidate the US’ privately-held central bank.
FBI agents emailed Twitter Trust and Safety chief #YoelRoth about 150 times between 2020 and 2022, according to internal communications released by platform CEO #ElonMusk earlier this month, with most messages involving requests for #censorship. However, even as Musk was releasing the Twitter documents, former FBI general counsel turned Twitter lawyer #JimBaker was ‘vetting’ the messages, allegedly without Musk’s knowledge. When this was brought to the billionaire’s attention, Baker was dismissed – but not before he had reshaped the narrative.
Twitter has reportedly hired dozens of FBI agents and other intelligence and military veterans in recent years, raising questions about the platform’s impartiality even before a lawsuit filed by the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general revealed earlier this year that employees were regularly meeting with representatives of US government agencies to coordinate the #banning and #suppression of certain accounts and narratives.
While Paul questioned the media’s failure to make the #TwitterFiles the scandal that he felt they deserved, he was encouraged by a recent survey showing 70% of Americans believe Congress must take action to end #collusion between #BigTech and #BigBrother.
The FBI said in a statement released following the publication of the Twitter Files that the agency “regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert or criminal activities.” It added that “private sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their customers after the FBI has notified them.”
#DC ~ #8october at the #us #doj: Join #whistleblowers, #journalists, #activists and other #good #folks fighting to #save #free-speech, the #FirstAmendment and #JulianAssange. #Publishing-state-crimes-is-not-a-crime!
#handsoffassange #washingtondc #department-of-justice #wikileaks #freespeech #freepress #weareallassange #freeassange #dropthecharges
Actually, the "blank" poster read "*** *****." That was assumed to be an anti-war message.
So, Mr. Putin, I would like to tell you
*** *** * ********** *********** ******* ******** **** ** ****** ******.
#hrw #human-rights-watch #human-rights #free-speech #civil-liberty #civil-liberties #war #anti-war #russia #putin #ukraine
Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British comedian, podcaster, writer and social
commentator. He made international headlines in 2018 by refusing to sign a
university “behavioural agreement form” which banned jokes about religion,
atheism and insisted that all humour must be “respectful and kind.”
