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🎙️ Why Censorship Is A Panic Response Ep. 126 with NetworkAffects Andrew Lowenthal is CEO of Liber-net and an Australian digital civil liberties researcher with over 25 years in human rights and technology. He led Engaged Media, worked with Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, and mapped the censorship...

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🎙️ AI, Gold & Bitcoin Are Light In The End Of The Tunnel Ep. 133 on Peter St Onge, Ph.D. Peter St Onge is an economist and former MBA professor holding positions at the Heritage Foundation, the Mises Institute, and the Montreal Economic Institute. In this conversation, we discuss what the Strait of Hormuz blockade means for different countries, the parallels between today and the 1930s, why AI will raise wages rather than destroy jobs, how central banks function as a permanent bailout mechanism for reckless banking, how to protect yourself during this chaos, and why free speech determines whether the West survives what is coming. → Please like, comment, share & follow — to help me beat the suppressing algo's. Thank you! 00:00 - Coming Up... 01:22 - Introduction: Peter St Onge 04:49 - Strait of Hormuz: What the Middle East War Means for You 18:17 - Ad-Break: Camp Nakamoto, Ledn & Trezor 21:11 - Historical Parallels: The 1930s, Resource Wars and the WWII Rhyme 23:40 - Peter's Take on Trump: Economics, Wars & Free Speech 27:55 - Why AI Will Raise Wages & Improve Economy 39:04 - Ad-Break: Abundant Mines & New Totalitarian Order 41:26 - The WEF's UBI Trap & Why AI Doom Is Propaganda 47:11 - How Should You Protect Yourself Now 52:12 - Community Q&A: Bitcoin, Bank Bail-ins, Stablecoins 01:01:30 - Shirts, Content Creation and Just Showing Up 01:07:18 - Technocracy, Surveillance & the Free Speech Battle 01:18:02 - What Gives Peter Hope 01:22:52 - Where to Follow Peter St Onge
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🎙️ AI, Gold & Bitcoin Are Light In The End Of The Tunnel Ep. 133 on Peter St Onge, Ph.D. Peter St Onge is an economist and former MBA professor holding positions at the Heritage Foundation, the Mises Institute, and the Montreal Economic Institute. In this conversation, we discuss what the Strait of Hormuz blockade means for different countries, the parallels between today and the 1930s, why AI will raise wages rather than destroy jobs, how central banks function as a permanent bailout mechanism for reckless banking, how to protect yourself during this chaos, and why free speech determines whether the West survives what is coming. → Please like, comment, share & follow — to help me beat the suppressing algo's. Thank you! 00:00 - Coming Up... 01:22 - Introduction: Peter St Onge 04:49 - Strait of Hormuz: What the Middle East War Means for You 18:17 - Ad-Break: Camp Nakamoto, Ledn & Trezor 21:11 - Historical Parallels: The 1930s, Resource Wars and the WWII Rhyme 23:40 - Peter's Take on Trump: Economics, Wars & Free Speech 27:55 - Why AI Will Raise Wages & Improve Economy 39:04 - Ad-Break: Abundant Mines & New Totalitarian Order 41:26 - The WEF's UBI Trap & Why AI Doom Is Propaganda 47:11 - How Should You Protect Yourself Now 52:12 - Community Q&A: Bitcoin, Bank Bail-ins, Stablecoins 01:01:30 - Shirts, Content Creation and Just Showing Up 01:07:18 - Technocracy, Surveillance & the Free Speech Battle 01:18:02 - What Gives Peter Hope 01:22:52 - Where to Follow Peter St Onge

Efrat Fenigson

32,877 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Who's Watching the Bitcoin Network? with B10C | SLP707 b10c and I discuss censorship resistance, mining pools, and the real impact of OFAC sanctions. We also explore how B10C’s Peer Observer project and the Bitcoin Network Operations Collective helps monitor the Bitcoin network for anomalies and attacks. (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Who is B10C? (03:48) - Are some of the Bitcoin transactions OFAC compliant? (07:53) - Are mining pools filtering transactions? (10:59) - Censorship resistance in Bitcoin mining; U.S vs China Bitcoin mining insights (13:59) - Multiple mining pools using the same block template? (20:28) - Payout structures for Bitcoin mining pools; IPC Mining interface by Bitcoin Core V30 (25:47) - What is the Peer Observer Project? (30:00) - Monitoring Bitcoin’s P2P Network through the lens of different configurations (33:20) - Insights from the Peer Observer Project (36:17) - What are the costs associated with running the Peer Observer Project? (38:05) - Tooling, infrastructure, data analysis aspects of the Project (40:11) - What is the expected behaviour of a Bitcoin node?; Network attacks and privacy risks (49:32) - What do we know about ‘Linking Lion’? (53:11) - Chain surveillance on Bitcoin (55:46) - Compact Block Relay (1:05:03) - Broad trends of block reconstruction rates (1:15:39) - Core vs Knots point of view on block propagation (1:20:39) - What is the Bitcoin Network Operations Collective? (1:23:09) - Closing thoughts
1:22:18

Who's Watching the Bitcoin Network? with B10C | SLP707 b10c and I discuss censorship resistance, mining pools, and the real impact of OFAC sanctions. We also explore how B10C’s Peer Observer project and the Bitcoin Network Operations Collective helps monitor the Bitcoin network for anomalies and attacks. (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Who is B10C? (03:48) - Are some of the Bitcoin transactions OFAC compliant? (07:53) - Are mining pools filtering transactions? (10:59) - Censorship resistance in Bitcoin mining; U.S vs China Bitcoin mining insights (13:59) - Multiple mining pools using the same block template? (20:28) - Payout structures for Bitcoin mining pools; IPC Mining interface by Bitcoin Core V30 (25:47) - What is the Peer Observer Project? (30:00) - Monitoring Bitcoin’s P2P Network through the lens of different configurations (33:20) - Insights from the Peer Observer Project (36:17) - What are the costs associated with running the Peer Observer Project? (38:05) - Tooling, infrastructure, data analysis aspects of the Project (40:11) - What is the expected behaviour of a Bitcoin node?; Network attacks and privacy risks (49:32) - What do we know about ‘Linking Lion’? (53:11) - Chain surveillance on Bitcoin (55:46) - Compact Block Relay (1:05:03) - Broad trends of block reconstruction rates (1:15:39) - Core vs Knots point of view on block propagation (1:20:39) - What is the Bitcoin Network Operations Collective? (1:23:09) - Closing thoughts

Stephan Livera

10,537 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

New episode: Pam Bondi says hate speech is not free speech — is she right? FIRE staff (Nico Perrino, Sarah McLaughlin, & Aaron Terr) also take your questions on Charlie Kirk's assassination, President Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times, cancel culture, and more. 00:00 Intro 01:42 Attorney General Pam Bondi's comments that "hate speech" is distinct from "free speech" 02:23 Is it OK for the Department of Justice to target people for "hate speech"? 05:42 How have “hate speech” laws played out overseas? 07:19 President Trump's response to Pam Bondi's “hate speech” remarks 08:50 Are “fighting words,” “incitement,” and “true threats” free speech? 11:22 What about doxxing? 15:15 Is it free speech to celebrate or condone the assassination of Charlie Kirk? 21:52 The termination of k-12 and university faculty in response to their commentary on Kirk's assassination 28:40 Is there a law that might implicate the Discord users who had reason to be aware of malicious intentions the shooter had towards Kirk ahead of the assassination? 30:05 The agency of speakers and those hearing their speech under the incitement standard 31:14 What are the differences between the free speech rights of citizens and non-citizens? 36:20 Does a court filing by President Trump as an individual in the New York Times lawsuit open him up to being deposed about a wide range of behaviors and actions? 37:40 What is the Trump's administration's legal strategy with the New York Times lawsuit? 39:24 What is FIRE doing about private employees being fired for their political commentary? 46:50 What is Charlie Kirk's legacy on free speech? 50:04 What is the difference between the academic protections enjoyed by tenured and non-tenured faculty members? 52:05 Does FIRE trust the Supreme Court to protect free speech? 56:12 How can we prevent capitulation from The New York Times? 59:20 How can ordinary people safely express their opinions on social media and promote civil discourse?
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New episode: Pam Bondi says hate speech is not free speech — is she right? FIRE staff (Nico Perrino, Sarah McLaughlin, & Aaron Terr) also take your questions on Charlie Kirk's assassination, President Trump's lawsuit against The New York Times, cancel culture, and more. 00:00 Intro 01:42 Attorney General Pam Bondi's comments that "hate speech" is distinct from "free speech" 02:23 Is it OK for the Department of Justice to target people for "hate speech"? 05:42 How have “hate speech” laws played out overseas? 07:19 President Trump's response to Pam Bondi's “hate speech” remarks 08:50 Are “fighting words,” “incitement,” and “true threats” free speech? 11:22 What about doxxing? 15:15 Is it free speech to celebrate or condone the assassination of Charlie Kirk? 21:52 The termination of k-12 and university faculty in response to their commentary on Kirk's assassination 28:40 Is there a law that might implicate the Discord users who had reason to be aware of malicious intentions the shooter had towards Kirk ahead of the assassination? 30:05 The agency of speakers and those hearing their speech under the incitement standard 31:14 What are the differences between the free speech rights of citizens and non-citizens? 36:20 Does a court filing by President Trump as an individual in the New York Times lawsuit open him up to being deposed about a wide range of behaviors and actions? 37:40 What is the Trump's administration's legal strategy with the New York Times lawsuit? 39:24 What is FIRE doing about private employees being fired for their political commentary? 46:50 What is Charlie Kirk's legacy on free speech? 50:04 What is the difference between the academic protections enjoyed by tenured and non-tenured faculty members? 52:05 Does FIRE trust the Supreme Court to protect free speech? 56:12 How can we prevent capitulation from The New York Times? 59:20 How can ordinary people safely express their opinions on social media and promote civil discourse?

So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast

31,314 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

🎙️ Power, Money & Control: Mapping the Hidden Architecture of the World Ep. 123 with Simon Dixon Simon Dixon is a geopolitical analyst, Bitcoin OG, and entrepreneur, formerly an investment banker. In this conversation, Simon does a deep dive into the real architecture of power shaping our world, unpacking how financial, military, and technological power structures intersect, and why incentives drive global decisions. From his early days in traditional finance to his journey into Bitcoin, Simon shares what he learned about how money is created, how influence is exercised, how power compromises, and why many leaders operate within larger systems they don’t fully control. We explore the difference between reforming the system and exiting it, the role of sovereignty, sovereign wealth and debt, how media and markets shape narratives, and why Simon sees Bitcoin and self-custody as tools for individual sovereignty. This is a wide-ranging discussion about power, truth, responsibility, and the practical paths toward greater independence in a highly controlled, corrupted world. → Please like, comment, share & follow — to help me beat the suppressing algo's. Thank you! 00:00 - Coming Up... 02:05 - Simon's Backstory & Life Mission: Follow the Money & Uncover Forces Shaping the World 11:02 - Ad-Break: Ledn & Trezor 12:40 - Markets Extract Wealth from the Masses 14:44 - War Is Actually a Business Plan 20:55 - From Corporate Career to Teaching About Money 23:30 - Positive Money & Monetary Reform Community 27:27 - Deciding to Create a Bank! 34:45 - First Bitcoin Investments in Startups 39:19 - Simon's Take on Bitcoin Startups & Investing in Them 49:01 - Who Controls the World? Simon's Framework of Financial, Military & Tech Industrial Complexes 55:59 - BlackRock's 20,000 Board Seats Control Every Public Company 1:00:50 - Trump Administration: PayPal Mafia, Stablecoins & AI 1:09:05 - Sovereignty on All Levels: Country, Corporate, Community, Individual 1:09:30 - Ad-Break: Abundant Mines & New Totalitarian Order Conference 1:18:16 - Financial Industrial Complex Dumping the Dollar 1:24:24 - Epstein: Why Were The Files Released Now, How Compromising Works? 1:29:19 - Who's Compromised in the Bitcoin Industry? 1:31:49 - The Spiritual Battle of Good & Evil, The Celsius Scam 1:40:51 - October 7th, Israel, Middle East & Geopolitical Interests 2:08:07 - Will Israel & Palestine Be Economically Vassalized by GCC? What Will The New World Order Look Like? 2:13:26 - Holding Nuanced Complex Realities & Final Thoughts
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🎙️ Power, Money & Control: Mapping the Hidden Architecture of the World Ep. 123 with Simon Dixon Simon Dixon is a geopolitical analyst, Bitcoin OG, and entrepreneur, formerly an investment banker. In this conversation, Simon does a deep dive into the real architecture of power shaping our world, unpacking how financial, military, and technological power structures intersect, and why incentives drive global decisions. From his early days in traditional finance to his journey into Bitcoin, Simon shares what he learned about how money is created, how influence is exercised, how power compromises, and why many leaders operate within larger systems they don’t fully control. We explore the difference between reforming the system and exiting it, the role of sovereignty, sovereign wealth and debt, how media and markets shape narratives, and why Simon sees Bitcoin and self-custody as tools for individual sovereignty. This is a wide-ranging discussion about power, truth, responsibility, and the practical paths toward greater independence in a highly controlled, corrupted world. → Please like, comment, share & follow — to help me beat the suppressing algo's. Thank you! 00:00 - Coming Up... 02:05 - Simon's Backstory & Life Mission: Follow the Money & Uncover Forces Shaping the World 11:02 - Ad-Break: Ledn & Trezor 12:40 - Markets Extract Wealth from the Masses 14:44 - War Is Actually a Business Plan 20:55 - From Corporate Career to Teaching About Money 23:30 - Positive Money & Monetary Reform Community 27:27 - Deciding to Create a Bank! 34:45 - First Bitcoin Investments in Startups 39:19 - Simon's Take on Bitcoin Startups & Investing in Them 49:01 - Who Controls the World? Simon's Framework of Financial, Military & Tech Industrial Complexes 55:59 - BlackRock's 20,000 Board Seats Control Every Public Company 1:00:50 - Trump Administration: PayPal Mafia, Stablecoins & AI 1:09:05 - Sovereignty on All Levels: Country, Corporate, Community, Individual 1:09:30 - Ad-Break: Abundant Mines & New Totalitarian Order Conference 1:18:16 - Financial Industrial Complex Dumping the Dollar 1:24:24 - Epstein: Why Were The Files Released Now, How Compromising Works? 1:29:19 - Who's Compromised in the Bitcoin Industry? 1:31:49 - The Spiritual Battle of Good & Evil, The Celsius Scam 1:40:51 - October 7th, Israel, Middle East & Geopolitical Interests 2:08:07 - Will Israel & Palestine Be Economically Vassalized by GCC? What Will The New World Order Look Like? 2:13:26 - Holding Nuanced Complex Realities & Final Thoughts

Efrat Fenigson

48,912 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

🚨 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: PLAN TO “KILL TWITTER” EXPOSED! I sat down with Matt Taibi and Paul Thacker, the two investigative journalists behind the explosive leaks that revealed the “Kill Musk’s Twitter” plot. This web of deceit shockingly goes even deeper than the infamous Twitter Files and involves collusion between a shady British organization and the Biden/Harris campaign. Was this blatant election interference!? Matt Taibi discloses that the Donald J. Trump campaign will be investigating this shady organization from “all angles” as a priority after Elon called it “criminal”, declaring “this is war." Here’s a breakdown of my exclusive interview with Matt Taibbi and Paul D. Thacker 1:10 - Original Twitter Files 3:31 - Old Twitter, Government Censorship, FBI and State Department 4:41 - Censorship Industrial Complex Targeting Elon and Twitter 5:32 - The Organization Behind “Kill Musk’s Twitter” Plot 7:20 - The Puppet Masters 11:40 - CCDH Formula to Destroy Companies Through Advertising 13:01 - How UK political group is advising the Kamala Campaign 15:10 - The Kill Twitter Web of Conspiracy 19:30 - Fear of the Smear - Demonetization of ZeroHedge and The Federalist 23:10 Who’s the real Wolf? 28:32 Media Blackout on the Kill Twitter Files 33:19 Media Targeting Journalist 35:00 Is CCHD Involved in Election Inference?! Trump Confirms They Will Investigate CCDH 37:45 Their Agenda to Destroy Elon Musk and X for Political Purposes 39:22 Political Lobbyists Masquerading as NGOs 40:28 What did CCDH do to target Elon and X exactly? 45:45 More Bombshells from the Kill Twitter Files team 50:10 The Fake Liberal “Watchdogs” Exposed 52:10 Crackdown on Free Speech and Citizen Journalism
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: PLAN TO “KILL TWITTER” EXPOSED! I sat down with Matt Taibi and Paul Thacker, the two investigative journalists behind the explosive leaks that revealed the “Kill Musk’s Twitter” plot. This web of deceit shockingly goes even deeper than the infamous Twitter Files and involves collusion between a shady British organization and the Biden/Harris campaign. Was this blatant election interference!? Matt Taibi discloses that the Donald J. Trump campaign will be investigating this shady organization from “all angles” as a priority after Elon called it “criminal”, declaring “this is war." Here’s a breakdown of my exclusive interview with Matt Taibbi and Paul D. Thacker 1:10 - Original Twitter Files 3:31 - Old Twitter, Government Censorship, FBI and State Department 4:41 - Censorship Industrial Complex Targeting Elon and Twitter 5:32 - The Organization Behind “Kill Musk’s Twitter” Plot 7:20 - The Puppet Masters 11:40 - CCDH Formula to Destroy Companies Through Advertising 13:01 - How UK political group is advising the Kamala Campaign 15:10 - The Kill Twitter Web of Conspiracy 19:30 - Fear of the Smear - Demonetization of ZeroHedge and The Federalist 23:10 Who’s the real Wolf? 28:32 Media Blackout on the Kill Twitter Files 33:19 Media Targeting Journalist 35:00 Is CCHD Involved in Election Inference?! Trump Confirms They Will Investigate CCDH 37:45 Their Agenda to Destroy Elon Musk and X for Political Purposes 39:22 Political Lobbyists Masquerading as NGOs 40:28 What did CCDH do to target Elon and X exactly? 45:45 More Bombshells from the Kill Twitter Files team 50:10 The Fake Liberal “Watchdogs” Exposed 52:10 Crackdown on Free Speech and Citizen Journalism

Mario Nawfal

17,283,609 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

🎙️ How To Opt Out of the Digital Prison Ep. 137 on #TBOT: Take Back Our Tech Hakeem Anwar is a software engineer with over 20 years in tech, and the founder and CEO of Above Phone , a conscious technology company building open source phones, laptops, and software services that free people from reliance on Big Tech. After years of building web and mobile apps for large corporations, he walked away from corporate life during Covid. He also runs Take Back Our Tech, a weekly show covering the biggest stories in tech - always with solutions. Hakeem has done extensive research into the global digital ID rollout, co-authoring the "Life Under Digital ID" report, which maps how 90% of countries already have operational digital ID or will within three years. In this conversation, we discuss global standards enabling biometric interoperability across borders, why "voluntary" always becomes mandatory, and Hakeem demonstrates the Above Phone on screen, making the case for why the window to migrate to open protocols is closing faster than most people realize. → Please like, comment, share & follow — to help me beat the suppressing algo's. Thank you! 00:00 - Coming Up... 01:23 - Introduction to Hakeem Anwar 07:23 - "Life Under Digital ID" Report: 90% of Countries Already In 16:24 - Global Standards Making It Interoperable 19:36 - Ad-Break: Ledn & Trezor 21:16 - Biometric Tracking, Digital Opt-Out & the 2027 Window 30:48 - Above Phone: What It Is and Why It Matters 37:15 - Private Messaging: Signal, XMPP & the Funding Problem 40:34 - Ad-Break: Abundant Mines 41:56 - Decentralized Protocols & the Open Internet 47:55 - Above Phone Mission & Features 58:50 - GrapheneOS x Motorola & Age Verification Laws 1:08:16 - Nostr: Self-Sovereign Identity as Antidote to State Digital ID 1:17:09 - Where to Follow Hakeem
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🎙️ How To Opt Out of the Digital Prison Ep. 137 on #TBOT: Take Back Our Tech Hakeem Anwar is a software engineer with over 20 years in tech, and the founder and CEO of Above Phone , a conscious technology company building open source phones, laptops, and software services that free people from reliance on Big Tech. After years of building web and mobile apps for large corporations, he walked away from corporate life during Covid. He also runs Take Back Our Tech, a weekly show covering the biggest stories in tech - always with solutions. Hakeem has done extensive research into the global digital ID rollout, co-authoring the "Life Under Digital ID" report, which maps how 90% of countries already have operational digital ID or will within three years. In this conversation, we discuss global standards enabling biometric interoperability across borders, why "voluntary" always becomes mandatory, and Hakeem demonstrates the Above Phone on screen, making the case for why the window to migrate to open protocols is closing faster than most people realize. → Please like, comment, share & follow — to help me beat the suppressing algo's. Thank you! 00:00 - Coming Up... 01:23 - Introduction to Hakeem Anwar 07:23 - "Life Under Digital ID" Report: 90% of Countries Already In 16:24 - Global Standards Making It Interoperable 19:36 - Ad-Break: Ledn & Trezor 21:16 - Biometric Tracking, Digital Opt-Out & the 2027 Window 30:48 - Above Phone: What It Is and Why It Matters 37:15 - Private Messaging: Signal, XMPP & the Funding Problem 40:34 - Ad-Break: Abundant Mines 41:56 - Decentralized Protocols & the Open Internet 47:55 - Above Phone Mission & Features 58:50 - GrapheneOS x Motorola & Age Verification Laws 1:08:16 - Nostr: Self-Sovereign Identity as Antidote to State Digital ID 1:17:09 - Where to Follow Hakeem

Efrat Fenigson

61,524 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has moved swiftly to dismantle the federal censorship infrastructure. In his first week, he signed an executive order barring agencies from funding or facilitating the monitoring or removal of lawful domestic speech. His administration has phased out censorship-related NSF grants, eliminated the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which had coordinated with outside groups to shape online narratives, and shut down USAID, which funded censorship advocacy in Europe and Brazil. And Trump’s 2026 budget proposes cutting $491 million from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency, which oversaw election and Covid censorship in 2020 and 2021. But the threat to free speech remains and has even grown stronger around the world, particularly in Europe. The UK is arresting 30 people per day for speech crimes. In Germany, 14 little-known state media agencies (SMAs) empowered by the 2020 “Media State Treaty” now monitor private journalists for compliance with vague “journalistic diligence” standards while exempting public broadcasters from the same scrutiny. French authorities want mandatory digital identification for users of social media platforms. The European Commission appears to desire the power to ban or censor whole platforms, particularly Elon Musk’s X. And an Irish newspaper this week reported that the European Commission accused Ireland of “failing” to comply with laws regulating hate speech. The wind remains at the back of free speech lovers. The change of government in the U.S. is already influencing Europe, where officials appear to be reconsidering some of the most aggressive censorship policies. In the UK, American negotiators have raised concerns about free speech tied to the Online Safety Act. At the same time, in the EU, the Digital Services Act enforcement faces legal and logistical delays. France has drawn criticism for prosecuting satirical speech, and in Germany, a CBS 60 Minutes segment has fueled backlash against selective speech policing. Meanwhile, some in Brussels worry that the EU’s growing alignment with censorship risks its credibility as a champion of liberal democracy. Even so, there is reason to be alarmed by what’s happening in Europe, says the Foundation for Freedom Online’s Mike Benz. “The most existential threats are now shifting around the international landscape and how that boomerangs back to the U.S.,” he said in a new podcast. American censorship leaders are working with European governments and NGOs to impose European censorship on social media platforms. “The University of Cambridge Social Decisionmaking Lab works with the Global Engagement Center at the State Department,” he said. “It works with CISA at DHS. It works with the entire USAID network and USAID funds dozens of these funds — University of Cambridge’s censorship work, London School of Economics, King's College, Sheffield College, Oxford Internet Institute — the State Department and USAID fund all these. And they effectively are a foreign group that is paid for by taxpayers to subvert the agenda taxpayers voted for. It's an incredible scandal.” And Europe is reacting to the Trump administration by seeking to replace the financing it cut for censorship. “Just this week,” Benz said, “the EU announced a a giant science research fund, $500 million, as an initial pool of funding and said they are actively recruiting researchers from the United States who USAID funded to come get their funds so they can continue their work by going to the EU. And this is happening in tandem with a tense standoff between the Trump administration and the EU over everything from Russia-Ukraine to tariff policy to tech regulation to you name it. And so the EU is basically pumping up the shadow diplomacy aspect of the US.” All of this is happening at a time when the ruling parties in Germany, France, and Romania are resorting to increasingly undemocratic tactics in what appear to be desperate attempts to hold onto power as populist challengers surge in the polls. In Germany, the domestic intelligence service has officially labeled the AfD “extremist” a transparent response to the new government’s weakness and the AfD’s new status as the nation’s most popular political party. In France, prosecutors banned Marine Le Pen from running for president at a time where she too is polling first nationwide. And in Romania, the high court disqualified the leading opposition candidate from running for president, which most believe is a reaction to his opposition to a new NATO base in Romania. “What's happening in Europe right now is simultaneously highly optimistic, white-pilling, inspiring, but also dark, twisted, sadistic, calamitous, catastrophic, and apocalyptic,” said Benz. Populist political success has caused NATO and the EU establishment to have “prosecutors and judges nullifying or barring candidates from running when they're winning, and prosecutors taking them out so they can't run again or can't make their voices heard or can't campaign because they're in prison or outright barred.” Why is this happening? What can be done about it? Please subscribe now to support Public's defense of free speech, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!
10:48

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has moved swiftly to dismantle the federal censorship infrastructure. In his first week, he signed an executive order barring agencies from funding or facilitating the monitoring or removal of lawful domestic speech. His administration has phased out censorship-related NSF grants, eliminated the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which had coordinated with outside groups to shape online narratives, and shut down USAID, which funded censorship advocacy in Europe and Brazil. And Trump’s 2026 budget proposes cutting $491 million from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency, which oversaw election and Covid censorship in 2020 and 2021. But the threat to free speech remains and has even grown stronger around the world, particularly in Europe. The UK is arresting 30 people per day for speech crimes. In Germany, 14 little-known state media agencies (SMAs) empowered by the 2020 “Media State Treaty” now monitor private journalists for compliance with vague “journalistic diligence” standards while exempting public broadcasters from the same scrutiny. French authorities want mandatory digital identification for users of social media platforms. The European Commission appears to desire the power to ban or censor whole platforms, particularly Elon Musk’s X. And an Irish newspaper this week reported that the European Commission accused Ireland of “failing” to comply with laws regulating hate speech. The wind remains at the back of free speech lovers. The change of government in the U.S. is already influencing Europe, where officials appear to be reconsidering some of the most aggressive censorship policies. In the UK, American negotiators have raised concerns about free speech tied to the Online Safety Act. At the same time, in the EU, the Digital Services Act enforcement faces legal and logistical delays. France has drawn criticism for prosecuting satirical speech, and in Germany, a CBS 60 Minutes segment has fueled backlash against selective speech policing. Meanwhile, some in Brussels worry that the EU’s growing alignment with censorship risks its credibility as a champion of liberal democracy. Even so, there is reason to be alarmed by what’s happening in Europe, says the Foundation for Freedom Online’s Mike Benz. “The most existential threats are now shifting around the international landscape and how that boomerangs back to the U.S.,” he said in a new podcast. American censorship leaders are working with European governments and NGOs to impose European censorship on social media platforms. “The University of Cambridge Social Decisionmaking Lab works with the Global Engagement Center at the State Department,” he said. “It works with CISA at DHS. It works with the entire USAID network and USAID funds dozens of these funds — University of Cambridge’s censorship work, London School of Economics, King's College, Sheffield College, Oxford Internet Institute — the State Department and USAID fund all these. And they effectively are a foreign group that is paid for by taxpayers to subvert the agenda taxpayers voted for. It's an incredible scandal.” And Europe is reacting to the Trump administration by seeking to replace the financing it cut for censorship. “Just this week,” Benz said, “the EU announced a a giant science research fund, $500 million, as an initial pool of funding and said they are actively recruiting researchers from the United States who USAID funded to come get their funds so they can continue their work by going to the EU. And this is happening in tandem with a tense standoff between the Trump administration and the EU over everything from Russia-Ukraine to tariff policy to tech regulation to you name it. And so the EU is basically pumping up the shadow diplomacy aspect of the US.” All of this is happening at a time when the ruling parties in Germany, France, and Romania are resorting to increasingly undemocratic tactics in what appear to be desperate attempts to hold onto power as populist challengers surge in the polls. In Germany, the domestic intelligence service has officially labeled the AfD “extremist” a transparent response to the new government’s weakness and the AfD’s new status as the nation’s most popular political party. In France, prosecutors banned Marine Le Pen from running for president at a time where she too is polling first nationwide. And in Romania, the high court disqualified the leading opposition candidate from running for president, which most believe is a reaction to his opposition to a new NATO base in Romania. “What's happening in Europe right now is simultaneously highly optimistic, white-pilling, inspiring, but also dark, twisted, sadistic, calamitous, catastrophic, and apocalyptic,” said Benz. Populist political success has caused NATO and the EU establishment to have “prosecutors and judges nullifying or barring candidates from running when they're winning, and prosecutors taking them out so they can't run again or can't make their voices heard or can't campaign because they're in prison or outright barred.” Why is this happening? What can be done about it? Please subscribe now to support Public's defense of free speech, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Michael Shellenberger

189,345 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr