In the News (#1687)

Feeding our neighbors should not be a crime. – Randy Hiroshige Censorship Ascendant (#1529) Useful idiots lust for the violent suppression of wrongthink: The war against anonymity is raging in Europe…and…[pro-censorship] activist[s want to bring it]…to the United States, [with the help of]…”a massive network of NGOs” connected to the U.K. government…The technique…is to smuggle in speech codes and effectively end online anonymity under the guise of “child safety”…”I’d say, conservatively, there are probably 50,000 arrests per year in the U.K. for speech and conduct…that would be unambiguously and very clearly protected in the United States,” says Preston Byrne, an American free speech attorney…f[ighting] Britain’s online speech [censor], Ofcom…Congress is paying attention. Versions of Byrne’s model legislation, Guaranteeing Rights Against Novel International Tyranny and Extortion Act…have been introduced in both House and Senate committees…Byrne…[says the cens]ors’ “fever dream is that…

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